On November 25, a previously unseen video from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests went viral on overseas social media. The footage captured the secret trial of Major General Xu Qinxian, commander of China’s 38th Group Army, who defied direct orders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and refused to turn his weapons on unarmed civilians. For nearly 36 years, the CCP kept this trial hidden from the public.
The full recording runs over six hours and exposes details of how the CCP mobilized the military to crush peaceful student demonstrators before the massacre on June 4, 1989 — details that Beijing has spent decades trying to erase.
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