On this day 4th June 1989, 19yrs ago, several hundred civilians were shot dead by the Chinese army to crush a democratic protest in Tiananmen Square, Peking (Beijing). The peaceful protest led by Students, Intellectuals and Labor Activists which started from 15th April 1989 was crushed on this very day 1989.
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June 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Thangthar tiau zat ral hnuah China hi Democracy ram a la ni ve ang a, chutih hunah chuan he ‘Tankman’-a hi ram tana mi huaisen, Martar ropui takah an la puang dawn a ni.
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June 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Little is publicly known of the man’s identity or that of the commander of the lead tank. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named the man as Wang Weilin (王维林), a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious. Numerous rumours have sprung up as to the man’s identity and current whereabouts, but none are backed by hard evidence.
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 is 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
The People’s Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the people involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied in English “I think never killed.”
A June 2006 article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily stated that there are rumours that the man is now residing in Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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June 5th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Chinese people had high expectations in 1989 and many young men and women lsot their lives. But later Chinese government managed to please their younger generation with promises of wealth, western lifetyle and certain degree of decadence. Money and the lure of prosperity made Chinese people totally forgot Tienanmen Square.
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June 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Tian’an men chanchin hian lung ati chhe ngotmai. Chinese thenkhat hian kha Tian’an men square incident kha a awmzia tak an man lo….ram hmangaih vang ani tih an hrethiamlo. Ram siamthatnana nunchan ngamte kha ngaihsan erawh anla hlawh telh telh ang.
Tian’an men ah hian thla ka la ve zan toh…ka in sawithei lutuk em aw….lolzz
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
@Kumtluang,aw,i insawithei lutk hrets..
Tian=Van,’An=Peace,men=gate
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