25 yrs ago Tiananmen Square

[undercoverbrother]

It has been 25 yrs since this big balled ####### stood in the road:



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...n-9483398.html

Little run down on what happened to him.............


I remember I this was right around the time I joined the army.


The numbers are said to be:

Casualties: Death(s)241–2,600, Injuries7,000–10,000

[Huntingwhale]

http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/china...nanmen-square/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5430108.html

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/china...nanmen-square/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5430108.html

Good to see these people didn't die for nothing..............

[Looch City]

What's sad is that if you go to China and try searching for this image, you won't find a single thing. Not in the literature nor the internet. Even most young Chinese people have no idea what this is and it's significance. F*** politics.

[CaptainCrunch]

Tankman is an iconic image, and I would bet that he was arrested and shot.

There were other Iconic images from that day that showed the ruthlessness of China's security apparatus that continues today.

NSFW!

I remember one image of an armored personal carrier calmly running people over that night.

[Tyler]

Gotta hand it to the Chinese government. They're good at what they do.

[GirlySports]

This never happened.

[killer_carlson]

Reports have Tank Man being a 19 year old student.

Think about that for a moment. 100 years from now when we are all gone, history will have this image as one of the defining moments of our generation. A 19 year old kid. So proud yet sad at the same time because it does sound like he was executed shortly after.

[Northendzone]

a friend of mine had a book about this whole event that was written from the chinese perspective, surprisingly, the western journalists made a lot of reporting mistakes.

[nik-]

No excusing China at all, because it's BS what they do ... but go to Japan and read their schoolbooks about about WW2. A lot more than a square of protesters has been whitewashed out of those.

[V]

Originally Posted by Iggy City

What's sad is that if you go to China and try searching for this image, you won't find a single thing. Not in the literature nor the internet. Even most young Chinese people have no idea what this is and it's significance. F*** politics.

Yeah, I was just there and couldn't find any information on it in China. It never happened. We didn't bring it up with the tour guide, but she sure didn't mention anything about it either.

[Cliche]

Do they still have the replica of the Goddess of Democracy at the U of C?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

a friend of mine had a book about this whole event that was written from the chinese perspective, surprisingly, the western journalists made a lot of reporting mistakes.

what would be some examples?

I certainly trust western media more than chinese media.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

what would be some examples?

I certainly trust western media more than chinese media.

I think that was a very sarcastic post.

[polak]

Happend a few months before I was born but that image has always fascinated me.

I read some really great book about this event by a CBC journalist when I was in Junior High. It was a little much for a kid to read but I still finished it all. Crazy.

[Hanna Sniper]

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by nik-

I think that was a very sarcastic post.

I'll rephase my question your honor

What were examples of mistakes that the western media made according to this book? I want to see how outlandish they are.