- Global Voices - https://globalvoices.org -

China: Tiananmen update

Categories: East Asia, China, History, Human Rights, Media & Journalism

Writing from her blog T-Salon, Andrea mentions [1] an upcoming television program which will look at the identity of ‘the Tank Man'—known to many as the Tiananmen square protestor who stood his ground against a line of incoming China's People's Liberation Army tanks on June 5, 1989.

“I remember it was just over Christmas vacation that the tank man slipped into a conversation that I had with a former Beijing resident who is now living abroad. He said both the tank man and the soldier who operated the tank were executed,” she recounts.