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On the 29th anniversary of the crackdown in Beijing, protesters are reenacting the historic face-off between a lone man and a Chinese tank. [...] Better known as “Tank Man”, he is one of the most enduring images of China’s violent military crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, known in China as liusi, or June 4th.
On the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, protesters are reenacting the face-off under hashtags including #Tankman2018, #Tankmen2018, a campaign started by Chinese artist and cartoonist, Badiucao. According to Badiucao, Tank Man represents “something lost in China’s young generation now — the idealism, passion, sense of responsibility, and confidence that an individual can make a change”, he said. “Tank Man is very relevant today and people should see it. Society has not changed much since the massacre for the oppression has never stopped”.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:22AM (8 children)
And we don't even know his name. Now that's Oppression. Communism, not even once.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:35AM (6 children)
In a way, that brings Tankman closer to everyone else in am "I am Tankman" "No, I'm Tankman" "No, I'M Tankaman!" sort of way.
Being anonymous has also protected him. I can't see the Chinese ruling party playing nice with that giant slap in the face and loss of honour considering they were killing people at that time. Throwing him in prison and taking the number off the cell isn't out of the bounds of reality.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:57AM (1 child)
I read about that a few days after the massacre.
The article gave his name, but I don't remember what it was.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday June 05 2018, @04:04AM
No clear details on what happened to Tank Man, at least according to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#Identity_and_fate [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @04:03AM (3 children)
Protected him? He's dead, the tanks did not stop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @05:50AM
Not true. He was dragged off, not run over by the tank. I'm not sure what actually happened to him, but he wasn't run over.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 05 2018, @07:25AM (1 child)
That happened to Rachel Corrie, very foolish Israel hater. Although, it was a VERY SPECIAL bulldozer. A bulletproof bulldozer. Not a tank!!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:21PM
Are you sure it wasn't your bullshitdozer?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:19PM
Absolutely. And if anyone elects any sort of leftist government, we should overthrow it and murder [wikipedia.org] the leader.
Communism is such a bad idea that we in the free west need to use violence to prevent it ever happening. Like we tried the first time [wikipedia.org]