A PLA soldiers death during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre.
Cui Guozheng, a private in the 39th Army, was stabbed to death on a pedestrian bridge at Chongwenmen at about 4:40 am. Soon after “men poured gasoline on him from a bottle, and set his body ablaze.”
According to government sources, 10 PLA soldiers and 13 PAP soldiers were killed. State-run media at the time reported that “tens” of soldiers, armed police and Beijing municipal police were killed and over 6,000 injured. According to a later study by Wu Renhua, who participated in the protests, only 15 fatalities among soldiers and armed police could be verified. Over half of these deaths were not directly caused by demonstrators.
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