Hero of One Man Stand against Tanks didn't die!

[The_Enigma]

Glad to see the guy didnt die, always wondered what happened to him.

[Kim Sung]

There is a poem praising him.

http://boxun.com/hero/2007/dihuo/354_1.shtml

只身拦坦克，盖世烈英雄。
侠胆惊天下，豪风贯九穹。
久违壮士信，难绘义君容。
何处寻黄鹤，此心四海同。

Stopping tanks with his bare body, he became the hero of the world.

Stunning the world, his brave spirit flies like an arrow.

Long time no see such a man, It's difficult to dipict the figure of this righteous man.

Where can we find him again? People all over the world have the same feeling.


* I'm not Chinese but did my best to translate the meaning of the difficult Chinese poem above.

[Kim Sung]

Shortly after the reports by HK and Taiwanese media in June 2006, the National Palace Museum in Taipei denied the allegation that the Tank Man was working at the Museum.

http://www.npm.gov.tw/zh-tw/administrat ... 9&pageno=7

And, since then, there has been no additional report on the controversial Tank Man. So, we can't be sure that the initial report by the Epoch Times is true. We have to consider that the Epoch Times is too anti-PRC that we can't fully trust its reports.

My thought is that it is not important whether the Tank Man is physically alive or not. An important point is that he showed courage and conscience in face of such relentless violence and threat, like hope found in the middle of despair. He is still living at our hearts. Forever...

[Annelie]

My thought is that it is not important whether the Tank Man is physically alive or not. An important point is that he showed courage and conscience in face of such relentless violence and threat, like hope found in the middle of despair. He is still living at our hearts. Forever...

Nicely put.

Still it would be nice to know the man survived.

[Karl]

His fate is still a mystery.

[Kim Sung]

"He didn't need to have a name. He spoke for all, the masses who had been silenced on June 4. He was all of them. He didn't need a name. He still doesn't need a name."

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1AeeWpZYA

"That ultimate spirit of freedom will last longer than the strength of tanks and machine guns."

[The_Enigma]

One happened to this man directly after standing infront of the tanks, was he dragged into the crowds or something?

[Dan W.]

Whether or not the man is alive, dead, or rotting in a Chinese prison, his heroic actions on that day will live on as an inspiration to others long after all of us are dead. He certainly is a heroic figure and the tank commander who stopped his column shows that human decency can survive under dictatorships and brutal regimes, as any student of WWII already knows.

[Kim Sung]

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. The Chinese communist government seems to be keen on keeping the Chinese citizens on a tight rein. However hard they try, however, they can't conceal the truth of that day.





* Image Source: AFP

[Kim Sung]

I've found a nonsensical article supporting the position of the Beijing government on the Tiananmen Incident.

WAS THERE A MASSACRE in Tiananmen Square?

To paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, the situation in the Chinese capital was a vivid reminder of the excesses suffered during the not-so-distant Cultural Revolution and he feared civil war. The police gave up attempts to contain the crowds and stood by idly as Tiananmen Square was barricaded. In the early hours of May 21 martial law was declared in the five central urban districts of Beijing. By this time, Tiananmen Square was a giant cess pool. Sanitation workers tried in vain to cope with mountains of human waste and prevent outbreak of disease as the temperature swelled. The rest of May 1989 was a hopeless stand off between the government, which felt threatened and without options, and the core group of student protesters who wanted impossible concessions.

Early morning June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square was cleared by army troops. A Spanish television crew filmed the retreat of the remaining 5,000 students and hunger strikers from the square just before dawn. They had negotiated safe conduct from the military at the last minute. Deng Xiaoping wanted no deaths to result from breaking up the demonstrators and clearing Tiananmen Square. Chinese leaders instructed the army that soldiers should not turn their weapons on innocent civilians, even if provoked. For the most part, this desire was realized. But as troops and tanks made their way to the square confrontations erupted on the streets of Beijing. According to government and eye witness reports, most of the deaths occurred when tanks crashed through barricades erected at the Muxidi bridge, in the western suburbs of Beijing.

The first press reports of 2,600 to 3,000 casualties in Tiananmen Square were prompted by the USA Central Intelligence Agency, according to respected Dutch journalist Willem Van Kemenade. Immediately throughout the world, press agencies and wire services reported that thousands had died. A USA State Department Briefing the morning of June 4, 1989, reported 180 to 500 deaths. Renowned sinologist and Yale University professor Jonathan Spence has used the figure of 700 deaths in his writings on the events in Tiananmen Square.

On June 6, the Chinese government released information that 300 people were killed in clashes on city streets (but not in Tiananmen Square itself) including 23 students. Another 400 soldiers were either missing or killed. Five thousand soldiers and 2,000 civilians were reported injured. But by then the idea that thousands (even ten or twenty thousands) of "pro-democracy demonstrators" had died in Tiananmen Square was already rooted in popular conciousness throughout the world.

Other than the official Chinese information, no reliable evidence of deaths has ever been produced by anyone on either side of the issue. As Jay Mathews, former Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post has said, there is no evidence anyone died in Tiananmen Square. Yet no journalist or politician outside China has ever attempted to correct the record. Instead the myth that thousands of unarmed people were deliberately mowed down by their own government is spread as part of an unacknowledged campaign of misinformation led by sinophobic press and politicians.

http://www.sinomania.com/CHINANEWS/tian ... ective.htm

[Kim Sung]

'Pillar of Shame -- A Memorial for Tiananmen' by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot in Hong Kong

[Annelie]

Heard an interview on the square with a young chinese man.
He said this history is too far in the past

Glad to hear he didn't die...that man was a brave person!

[Kim Sung]

CNN Special on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/ne ... index.html