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Lest we forget: 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

Seriously!!!!!

Between you and me - I reckon his gonads where so big he was carrying them in that bag
 
18 years, already? Looks more peaceful today (this was last week):

Hans
 

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lest we forget indeed

The Unknown Rebel image would have to be one of the most poignant and recognisable images of the 20th century

And for what it's worth, i agree about the bag
 
Damien Evans said:
lest we forget indeed

The Unknown Rebel image would have to be one of the most poignant and recognisable images of the 20th century

And for what it's worth, i agree about the bag
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The still photo of the guy is awesome and memorable. Even better is the video, because it shows how the tank driver was NOT going to run the guy over.
 
I doubt we'll ever know for sure but I hope this man is alive and well and wasn't arrested at the time (because if he was arrested it's safe to assume he isn't alive and well).
 
Damien Evans said:
i think i read in the time 100 person list he got 12 years jail
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Unfortunately, there's nothing conclusive

From "Tankman's" Wiki entry:

Little is publicly known of the man's identity. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin (王维林), a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious. Numerous rumours have sprung up as to the man's identity and current whereabouts, but none are backed by hard evidence.
There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn — former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon — reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was killed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests. In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China.
An eyewitness account of the event published in October 2005 by Charlie Cole, a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine at the time, states that the man was arrested on the spot by the Public Security Bureau.
The People's Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the person involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied "I think never killed."[1]
A June 2006 article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily stated that the man is now residing in Taiwan.[3]
 
Not to be a nitpicker, but isn't this more of a topic for the History forum rather than the Current Events forum?
 
I wonder if that video/story is available for viewing in China.

Personally, I doubt it -- and that says more than the articles.
 
Puppycow said:
Not to be a nitpicker, but isn't this more of a topic for the History forum rather than the Current Events forum?
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That depends ... if what I said in the previous post is true (and I strongly believe it is), then it's quite current -- and important.
 
When the Simpsons went to China, there was a sign in the square saying something along the lines of:

In this square on the 5th of June, 1989 NOTHING HAPPENED


Made me smile, then made me sad.
 
there's all sorts of information about that in the frontline episode i linked to.
 
3point14 said:
When the Simpsons went to China, there was a sign in the square saying something along the lines of:

In this square on the 5th of June, 1989 NOTHING HAPPENED


Made me smile, then made me sad.
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Case in point:

Ad saluting Tiananmen slips into Chinese paper

BEIJING - A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday.

Officials at the Chengdu Evening News refused to answer questions about an advertisement it ran saluting the mothers of those killed in a bloody military crackdown on democracy activists at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The one-line ad on Monday night read: “Paying tribute to the strong mothers of June 4 victims.” It appeared on page 14 of the paper on Monday, the 18th anniversary of the violent end to a seven-week pro-democracy movement.
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She didn't even know it had happened.
 
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