Massacres Don't Work for Long

It seems rare enough that unarmed demonstrators are fired upon by police/national guard/soldiers. And it is frequent that there are agents provocateurs. It is also common for governments to bring in rural/poor/less educated militia members from distant provinces or different ethnic groups. The conscript Army in Egypt in Jan/Feb could not be reliably counted upon to fire upon demonstrators.



Clubbed, yes; fired upon, rare enough so that I could name a few prominent ones:

• Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England 1819 Short Documentary, 2010
  
• Bloody Sunday, St. Petersburg, 1905 Hollywood, 1971
• Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh), India, April 13, 1919 from Gandhi, 1982
  
• Bloody Sunday, Dublin, Ireland 1920 from Michael Collins, 1996
  
• Ludlow Massacre, Ludlow, Colorado, 1914 from Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train, 1996
  
• Everett Massacre, Everett, Washington, USA 1916
• Sharpeville, South Africa 1960 from 2010 newscast or this
  
• Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, SC, USA 1968
  
• Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City, Mexico; October 2, 1968 footage
• Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, USA May 4th, 1970 eyewitness account & these
  
• Jackson State Shootings, Jackson, Missisippi, USA 1970 Democracy Now clip from Howard Zinn's last interview
  
• Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972 docudrama trailer, 2002
  
• Black Friday, Tehran, Iran, Sept. 8, 1978
  
• Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, North Carolina 1979*
  
• Tianamen Square Massacre, Peking, China 1989
• Devil's Curve, Bagua, Peru, 2009
• Teheran, Iran, ~ June 2009
• Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Jan/Feb 2011
• Lulu Square, Bahrain, Feb. 18, 2011
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None of these are forgotten or swept under the rug. That I can name them years later proves that. As do the wikipedia articles & youtube films. You might have seen some of the fictional Hollywood portrayals above.
* The Greensboro demonstrators were shot by the Klan, but acquitted. The subsequent rift led to a Truth and Reconciliation process.

**Nothing more after this**