"[A]n estimate of 7,000 deaths -- 6,000 civilians and 1,000 soldiers..."

Peking, China, June 1989.

The Tienanmen Massacre.


Likewise a snippet from Red Dragon Rising.

Page 29.

"Three days after the massacre, NATO intelligence offered an estimate of 7,000 deaths -- 6,000 civilians and 1,000 soldiers.

"Some Soviet - bloc estimates were even higher -- 10,000 killed.

"A PLA defector in 1996 claimed that a document circulating among military officers had estimated that 3,700 people had been killed.

"But even the PLA doesn't know how many people disappeared into the crematories or died secret, agonizing deaths without medical treatment..."