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For me it symbolises more than just events in one country. But something bigger. An international struggle to be treated like a human being, and not some game piece.
Personal courage and a genuine yearn for freedom.
That picture gives me chills every time I see it.
It reminds me of why we shouldn't be so trusting of china, no matter how much they may have claimed to have opened up. The people that ordered that protest crushed, and after the cameras were gone most likely the exectution of everyone involved, are still in power.
It is a heartwarming affirmation that some people can still value principle over their own 'security.'
I would be to chicken to stand in the way of a tank, well unless its a Canadian one ;)
by ABC on Tue May 23, 06 8:17am
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To me this photo symbolise courage and the legenths people will go to fight for freedom.One man hold back four Chinese tanks with his boy,truly an act of bravery.
People power, but it also points out the unwillingness of the Chinese military to kill citizens, at least at this one place in history.
Jaywalking
unwillingness of the griffon007- "Chinese military to kill citizens, at least at this one place in history."
- I disagree. 1989 was an especially gruesome year for the Chinese military. The Tiananmen Incident was horrible.
As for the man in the photo?
"Little is publicly known of the man's identity. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious.
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 in 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." (Wikipedia)
griffon007- "unwillingness of the Chinese military to kill citizens, at least at this one place in history."
- I disagree. 1989 was an especially gruesome year for the Chinese military. The Tiananmen Incident was horrible.
As for the man in the photo?
"Little is publicly known of the man's identity. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious.
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 in 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." (Wikipedia)
Btw,sorry,i thought u were asking what those tanks represented,i wasnt aware u were talking about the"tank man "
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