Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Tiananmen - The Man Who Stopped the Tanks


June 4 is getting close.

That was the day of the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989. On June 5, a day after the massacre, this internationally famous picture was taken of a Chinese man who bravely stopped a convoy of about 17 tanks on their way to the square.

What became of this man? No one really knows. It remains a mystery up to now.

Read more in the link provided above.

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