Outside China he is known simply as Tank Man. Inside the country he is not known at all. No trace is to be found of the young man armed only with shopping bags who 20 years ago blocked a column of tanks rolling through Beijing. His defiance became the defining image of the student demonstrations crushed by the People’s Liberation Army.
--TimesOnline
Friday, June 5, 2009
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Tank Man Lives. New versions of this iconic image are all over the Web. Here, for example:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/20th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square/
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