I know someone who was there. Lots of gunfire at night, lots of troops, lots of dead bodies the morning after. The hotel faced the square, and they were all moved to rear facing rooms by hotel staff for fear of westerners being shot. Hotel staff vanished and there was no food the following day. They say it was stray bullets but the army was firing indiscriminately, and many hit the hotel, but only near windows...
Everyone knew the troops were coming, they just didn’t think they’d open fire on a crowd. The army swept through after awhile in the morning and put the bodies (some still alive) on trucks and nobody was seen again.
I want to get in on the action with Taiwan-acknowledgement and Japan-worship.
I know someone who was there. Lots of gunfire at night, lots of troops, lots of dead bodies the morning after. The hotel faced the square, and they were all moved to rear facing rooms by hotel staff for fear of westerners being shot. Hotel staff vanished and there was no food the following day. They say it was stray bullets but the army was firing indiscriminately, and many hit the hotel, but only near windows...
Everyone knew the troops were coming, they just didn’t think they’d open fire on a crowd. The army swept through after awhile in the morning and put the bodies (some still alive) on trucks and nobody was seen again.