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Yuan Mu

Spokesperson of the Chinese State Council in 1989.

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Government of the People's Republic of China 1989 State Council spokesperson Scholarship & press 1

Tiananmen protests and crackdown of 1989 said on 6 June 1989 that 300 had died, including 23 students Scholarship & press 1 2

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Former Chinese official Yuan Mu, who said not one person died at Tiananmen, dies at 90, Hong Kong Free Press, 17 Dec 2018. Scholarship & press
Yuan Mu, a controversial former spokesperson of the Chinese State Council, died in Beijing last Thursday at 90 years old.
Many of the casualties occurred near Muxidi, when the army was approaching Tiananmen Square.
I didn’t say that no casualties resulted from our efforts to put down the counter-revolutionary rebellion. I only said that no-one died when the [People’s Liberation Army] cleared the Tiananmen Square
Daily Tar Heel, 8 June 1989, page 2 (Associated Press reports from Beijing), The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill), on DigitalNC, 8 Jun 1989. Scholarship & press
Yuan said on television 300 people were killed, including 23 students; and 7,000 were injured and 400 soldiers were missing.
State Council spokesman Yuan Mu said on Tuesday that 7,000 people, including 5,000 soldiers, have been injured and 400 other soldiers are missing and may be dead or wounded.

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