> But for example, both Switzerland and the US also went through very bloody times of social upheaval, and yet, those events are long forgotten from public memory.
They're absolutely not forgotten from public memory and infact a lot of legislation and reforms happened from them. This has definitely gone too political but to me at least, on paper, a national army killing its own civilians who they're supposed to protect seems wrong to me. The US had a civil war, and from that there is a provision that the Army itself cannot be deployed in the US. Switzerland, I THINK you're referencing the Sonderbund war, which again in the 1800's and was infact a civil WAR. Not civil unrest. Don't try to gasslight.
We had the 1977 Moutier riots linked to the (very left-leaning at the time) Jura independance movement. But before that, we had the 1932 Geneva "massacre" where the Army executed 13 strikers, hurting 60 others. It's not gaslighting, its just history has its been taught to me by my leftist grandpa.
And I guarantee you, those events are part of Switzerland's forgotten history, simply because Bourgeois do not allow us to remember those, for once again, leftists used to stand for extraordinary concepts such as national sovereignty and workplace democracy.
That's wild, I'm aware of that one and I spent my life between Ireland and Italy, so to say it's forgotten/whitewashed is simply not true.
It's obviously not how things should be done, and there was some agitation that led to the tragedy, but a massacre, it wouldn't reach that in my book. THAT would be considered a civil unrest tragedy. And it came to a resolution with changes made around the Jura. I can't say the same in China, you're right, but they're not the same.
They're absolutely not forgotten from public memory and infact a lot of legislation and reforms happened from them. This has definitely gone too political but to me at least, on paper, a national army killing its own civilians who they're supposed to protect seems wrong to me. The US had a civil war, and from that there is a provision that the Army itself cannot be deployed in the US. Switzerland, I THINK you're referencing the Sonderbund war, which again in the 1800's and was infact a civil WAR. Not civil unrest. Don't try to gasslight.