Japanese → English transcript
In fact, there really is footage of them fleeing right in the midst of that huge chaos. However, it was later revealed that not a single person was killed in Tiananmen Square itself.
At that time, the student leader in Tiananmen Square said, “It seems the army is finally about to come storming in. If the students stay here like this…”
Since there were going to be many casualties, we secretly made arrangements with the military commander, so that just before the army stormed in, the students would evacuate and escape through one of the exits.
Later it became clear that that was just a story they had been repeating without thinking. The military actually left only one escape route open for the students and attacked everywhere else.
That is how they operated. Because of this, none of the students in Tiananmen Square itself were killed.
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Original transcript (Japanese)
それこそあの大混乱の中で逃げていくその映像は確かにあります ところが天安門広場では一人も殺されていなかったということが後にわかります それは当時天安門広場の学生たちのリーダーがですね いよいよ軍が突入してくるらしいこのまま学生たちがいたら 大勢の犠牲者が出てしまうというので軍の責任者と密かに話をつけてですね 軍が突入する直前学生たちが一方の口から避難する逃げていく というその話をついつけていたってことが後になってわかります 軍も学生たちが逃げていく場所を一箇所だけ開けてそれ以外そこに攻め込んでいくという やり方をしたんですね これによって天安門広場での学生が犠牲になるということはありませんでした
