Now I've seen this crap for years and I really want to ask this man aside from giving the white establishment tons of entertainment in America and britain, what the hell did he call himself doing? It trips me out how the news media celebrates this crap as a sign of the fight for freedom, yet they can't stand up for the African Americans who've been murdered here by the police, but they want to claim this fictitious dedication to freedom while the police here murder my people! The chinese government has probably executed this fool and restored order, for it was evident this was a plot concocted by mi6 and cia to try an start some sort of populist revolt in China, coz' no one knows who he is or where he is! Or he was an mi6 or cia recruit and they flew him out of the country before the authorities there could get their hands on him or they made him 'disappear' (what are the bets on this being what happened to him?). Oh well. They claim chinese celebrate this cad, probably chinese people recruited by mi6 and cia! Coz' I'm sure this isn't true of any Chinese who have sense and know what time it was with this fake uprising. Had nothing to do with the Chinese government taking back Hong Kong and Shanhai from the british did it? Yeah, right! There is nothing heroic about turning traitor against your own country against your own people. They wouldn't celebrate that here, (coz' they're all bent out of shape over people not standing during the anthem here! Now they're not trying to stop the police murders of African Americans or punish them under laws already in place that punish murderers, but they think it's soooooooo disrespectful to sit during the singing of the anthem!), so we shouldn't encourage others to do it anywhere else! Jesus said to remove the log from you own eye (police brutality, racial oppression, economic assasination, corporate greed, hypocrisy, racial hatred, intolerance, oppressors of the poor, murderers of women and children, Sandra Bland, Tyree King and another 15 year old black boy in Cleveland both in Ohio, Godlessness) before you try to remove the speck from your neighbors eye!
What happened to Tank Man, China’s most famous Tiananmen Square protester?
A Chinese man blocks military tanks on Changan Avenue, near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 5 1989. (AP Photo / Jeff Widener)
A day after Chinese military killed at least hundreds, if not thousands of demonstrators in Beijing in 1989, a wiry man in a white shirt stepped in front of a line of moving tanks near Tiananmen Square and become one of the most famous protesters of the 20th century.
Twenty-four years later, his identity is still a mystery. He is called simply Tank Man. Today, on the anniversary of the crackdown, Chinese bloggers paid homage to him with imitations of the face-off.
The man blocked the path of the tanks, even as they gunned their engines. He climbed onto the first tank, pounded on the hatchet, and appeared to speak to the soldiers inside. When he stepped back down in front of the tank, two men ran into the street and pulled him away. The confrontation became one of the most enduring images of the pro-democracy, anti-corruption protests that swept China that spring and summer.
Speculation continues to circulate about Tank Man’s fate. Thousands of Chinese nationals were detained and imprisoned for their involvement in the protests, some of them kept in jail for almost their entire lives. Others were executed. No one has been able to determine whether Tank Man was among them.
A report (link in Chinese) cited a Hong Kong professor who said the man was a friend of his and an archaeologist from Changsha who had come to Beijing to protests. According to the professor, the man eventually escaped to Taiwan where he worked at the National Palace Museum. (The museum in Taiwan denied the report.) Others believed he was executed.
But it seems at least as plausible that the man disappeared back into his normal life. If he had left the country, he would have been free to speak out, according to Canadian journalist Jan Wang, who witnessed the confrontation. And if authorities had found him, they would have put him on public display, she told PBS. She believes there’s a good chance he’s alive and living quietly in China. The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Movement in China said in 1998 that it had obtained official party documents that showed authorities had no idea what happened to him. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin said he couldn’t confirm (video) whether the man was arrested or not. He broke from speaking to Walters through an interpreter and said in English, “I think never, never killed.”
It’s also possible that Tank Man may have been simply a regular citizen in Beijing who had seen or heard of the brutal government crackdown that left students, workers, children, doctors and passers-by dead, many of them shot in the back. According to film footage and witnesses, he was walking alone along the six-lane avenue, holding a bag of shopping, when he saw the tanks and decided to do something.
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