Tiananmen Square - Iconic Image of "Tank Man"

[jknightglfr]

Please fix your description. This is not correct. He was not tackled and it is widely believed (most historians have reached consensus) that those who led him away were not police. Could he have been arrested later? Maybe. But at this time he was NOT tackled, hit, assaulted, or arrested. He may very well still be alive at this time.

[TheBeatlesFan1100]

If he was arrested and executed it would've been shown on chinese television at that time, because during the time of the protests they would televise these executions

[SAJU0000]

This man is the bravest human being that existed in my life time.

[Sojourner7ruth]

they didn't run over him so why do that

[maggio333]

I have no words

[LillBG]

same here , can't think off anything else to say but: this man is fucking brave , it caught me seeing this vid..

[maggio333]

He is an hero and we don't know his destiny. Bad world.

[surfwax95]

Yep, you just keep right on obeying.

He did what he thought was right, regardless of the consequences.

[theangeldark]

I take it you don't know the story behind this act. The night of June 3rd, the Chinese army massacred it's own people. Massacred. Do you have any idea how brave it is to witness a massacre and still stand up to the ones that did it? You don't, plain and simple. I don't and I'm sure most of the world wouldn't do what he did. And no. His actions would have been told by word of mouth even if no one got it on video. He has become a symbol.

[Raikiri1234]

He was led away by ? knows who. But any one familiar with life there in communist China would resign his fate to be arrested and executed then or shortly after.

[killerdeez]

For those who love government and the state, you dismiss this man as a fool. For those that love freedom and hate tyranny, you see the greatest hero of the modern age. Choose your side, and gird yourself for the interesting times ahead. May God, or whatever you believe in have mercy on our souls, for I am certain we will show little mercy to each other.

[popoTb]

Those that die in T'square were for a GOOD CoST! we should celebrate June 4 1989 because it is the day that brought Change to China! MILLIONS of Chinese ppl in china are experiencing more FREEDOM today because of these brave students!

ANd revolutions "any" revo's has a cost to it !! like the FRENCH revolution, like the IRA revolution in England! people die but for a COST!

[popoTb]

Every country on earth has gone through, civil wars, revolutions and killed it's own kind! just to name a few:

American civil war to free the black slaves

The french revolution

The IRA in the UK and "brave heart" Scotlanders!

all the above wars, revolutions and movements resulted in death and violence.

What's so amazingly different about Tiananmen Square that so many likes dwelling on it? Just another sad part of the world history!! MOVE ON ppl!!

[silverstone350z33]

the American Civil war was NOT originally intended on freeing blacks but rather to preserrve the union..only in the latter years when it was obvious that slavery needed to end did President Lincoln do anything about it.

[popoTb]

well...then that makes it even worst! Means that America didn't intensionally want to FREE THE Black SLAVES!

[silverstone350z33]

sad truth and a black eye in American History =( im a yank too

[Wierdperson31]

What does the civil war have anything to do with this video?

[FourTwenny]

he was run over by the tank, the video of him being run over had been on tv hundreds of times. That man is a legend. And over 10,000 people were attacked during that protest. 2500 dead 7500 injured. The officer in the tank was not arrested charged or disciplined, he may have been disciplined for hesitating. That is communism for you. Speak up and die.

[i2aymond]

He wasn't ran over.

[andrewwigglesworth]

You are either a conscious liar, have bad memory or just a fantacist.

[wambamedia]

There is a slightly longer video out there of this incident. I believe it shows the man getting on the tank? I do know that he was tackled by soldiers, and that he was never heard from again.

[Nakasi100]

@ Wambamedia - He wasn't tackled by police. After he got off the tank, he blocked the tank two more times, then people on the sidelines of this event came forward and took him away (gently i may add) into the crowd and Tank Man's fate is to this day unknown and unconfirmed.

@ PopoTB - Brush up on your American History, slavery was about 5% of the reason we had the Civil war.

[AoiroTetsujin]

My teacher told me he was run over by the tank...

over all this is still quiet sad

[bornprodigy]

No he wasn't run over. The tank convoy turned around. The Officer in charge of that tank was imprisoned.

[andrewwigglesworth]

Good grief, more and more fantasies.

Just face up to it. He wasn't run down by the tank. You have no idea who he was, why he did it or what he said to the tank crew. The @oh what bravery@ stuff is just thought up by those who hate any idea of Socialism, or of Socialism defending itself.

If that was a US tank you'd be thinking something different.

[tuesdaythe21st]

best thing i ever saw on youtube

[p1x3lman]

this guy is my freaking hero

[kyosuke1712]

this video makes me cry every time i see it