Business Insider: China still gets annoyed with images showing the famous Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man,' 30 years after he became a symbol of the government's brutality
* June 4, 2019, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on Tiananmen Square, where thousands of people gathered to protest against the government.
* Armed Chinese troops mowed down hundreds of mostly unarmed protesters, and continued to patrol the city for days afterward.
* On June 5, 1989, American photographer Jeff Widener took an iconic photo of a man standing in front of an army convoy to block its path. He became known as "Tank Man."
* Today, China continues to crack down on any images or mention of the incident.
In the early hours of June 4, 1989, the Chinese Communist Party sent a column of tanks and armed troops into Beijing's central Tiananmen Square to clear out thousands of protesters.
The demonstrators — mostly students — had for months occupied the area as a way of pressuring the government into greater democracy and liberalization.
Soldiers were, under newly-imposed martial law, given permission to "act in self-defense and use any means to clear impediments," ABC News reported, citing Tiananmen historian Wu Renhua.
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Update: 30 years after Tiananmen protests in China, 'Tank Man' remains an icon and a mystery (Times of India/New York Times)
WNU Editor: He will be remembered forever.
3 comments:
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@wnu I agree. This picture will live as long a humanity lives. Is there a documentary about that guy?
I kept expecting him to be shot down or run over. An experience of a lifetime seeing that back then. Always lingering in the Chinese population's mind; this is what they have done before.
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