

Based on other protests, probably?
Apart from that, killing 12000 people is a huge effort even for a military using artillery and whatnot. If you have some military insight, just think of the logistics.
Or compare to the massacres Nazis did in WW2. Extreme cases like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had something like 20000 people killed on site, so you see how believing that they pulled of more than half of that here, without all the supporting context the nazis had, is not a given.



Well… studying computer science in order to write production code, is like studying chemistry to become a chef.
I can assure you, unlike OP, I am comfortable using different collection types as the tools they are, even without having spent years studying the theory behind them.