The Horse’s Mouth continues his series of reprints on the massacre:

The argument has been made that the slaughter of June 3 and 4 was necessary to clear Tiananmen Square. Then why did the indiscriminate killing of innocent people continue for several days after the martial law troops had already occupied the square?  On or about June 5, Zhang Xianghong, a second-year student in the International Politics Department at People’s University, went to the end of the alleyway near her home with her sister-in-law, as they were anxious about Zhang’s brother who was going out. They were chasing behind him, calling for him to return home when Zhang was hit by a round of ammunition fired by the martial law troops. Zhang died instantly in the arms of her sister-in-law.