I watched the footage and I saw one (1) injured person, who was helped away from the scene by other civilians without the military intervening. The comments are obviously still treating it like a video of an execution by firing squad and getting self righteous because they know that their country would never do something like that on film.
But for real I hope none of the bicycles were seriously hurt
That story is made up just like you imply, but it is worth noting there is at least one picture of someone rolled over with a tank. I don’t really know what the situation was, presumably just the army advancing and incidentally rolling over someone who died in a gunfight just prior . . . I wonder if they were a bystander or one of the guerrillas, though.
I remember seeing one such photo[1], but it was completely contextless (as in there was no associated documentation and no surroundings in the photo to verify its setting), and I have never seen it included in any photo libraries of the June 4th events.
Could you share (with a CW, of course) the photo you’re describing, if you could? I’d like to know as much as possible.
alleged to me by a redditor ↩︎
My experience is similar to yours, though I thought that it was included in one such collection. Maybe I have made a mistake, but it was being treated by “apologists” as though it was genuine and so I was credulous about it.
I believe this was the picture:
CW GORE
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/RM1.TAN.TANK.CRUSHES.HTM
There is another on the same site of an alleged crushed person but the picture is totally indecipherable beyond being very bloody. Also one or two other pictures of corpses that it says are from the incident, which seems plausible but it’s a weird site so I’m going to give that caveat anywsy.
It does not help that the source it gives appears to be down and also is called “christusrex.org”. Christian radicals were famously a driving force in the death of civilians during the incident . . .
So in short I have basically no more context than you do.