Crackdown in 1989

My first thoughts after watching the video about the Tiananmen Square crackdown was that the government seemed to be power-hungry and autocratic. I thought that no good government would ever carry out a "massacre" so large and so publicly of their own people. After i read Lee Kuan Yew's response to the Tiananmen Square incident, i still believe that the massacres were unwarranted. But my view has changed slightly; although arguably inhumane, the Tiananmen square crackdown may have been a necessary move by the government to maintain long standing order and peace. So i believe that the Tiananmen Square crackdown was necessary for the continuation of China, but it was carried out in such a way where unnecessary lives may have been lost.

I can't comment on the Financial Times article because the dumb news websites like that and the New York Times(i used to read the occasional article) created pay-walls... so basically i'd have to pay to read articles -_-