[kidwoo]

I was stressing over a driver's license and touching boobies when this went down but I do remember a good bit of it.

A passage from someone there.

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2009/06/twenty-years-from-tiananmen.html

A photo everyone knows (or should)

I'll never forget the video of the tank trying to get around the kid and him stepping right back in front of it. Badass mother fvcker.


Newly released photos of an event that never happened.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/tiananmen-square-new-pictures-beijing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/jun/05/tiananmen-square-protests-1989-china?picture=348436735


Did it do anything other than help us realize how fvcked up china (STILL) is?

To this day no one has a handle on the death toll.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tiananmen

Police barred foreign journalists from entering the square and threatened them with violence, even barring them from covering the daily raising of China's national flag.

Chinese and foreign tourists were allowed in Tiananmen as usual, although security officials appeared to outnumber visitors.

Dissidents and families of victims were confined to their homes or forced to leave Beijing, part of sweeping government efforts to prevent online debate or organized commemorations of the anniversary.

 

[sanjuro]

I remember.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I was 11, but remember it quite vividly. One of those generation defining moments, like the Challenger explosion and the Berlin wall coming down. Did anyone ever find out who that kid was? Cast iron stones is what that he had. Its very difficult, especially if your looking to buy electronics, but I try to never buy anything made in China, especially now that I have a kid.

 

[drkenan]

Wow...apparently no one knows who the guy in front of the tanks is/was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

 

[DaveW]

Wow...apparently no one knows who the guy in front of the tanks is/was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Yeah but you can bet that state security rounded him up and made the rest of his life unpleasant in the extreme.

Brave, brave man whom ever he was.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

I remember watching that.

 

[MMike]

I actually didn't even hear about it. That was the summer I spent out in Lake Louise with essentially no contact with the real world. I only found out about it a few weeks later.

 

[fortenndu]

Wow...apparently no one knows who the guy in front of the tanks is/was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

I'm sure the Chinese know.

 

[kidwoo]

I actually didn't even hear about it. That was the summer I spent out in Lake Louise with essentially no contact with the real world. I only found out about it a few weeks later.

It was bad. Days and days of coverage then all hell breaking loose on the last day and cameras just cutting off. Back when there was such a thing as real news networks and not personality shows.........


I can't help but think about all the glen beck, AR15 buying shut in retards screaming about socialism and fascism. Those idiots have no idea.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

It was bad. Days and days of coverage then all hell breaking loose on the last day and cameras just cutting off. Back when there was such a thing as real news networks and not personality shows.........


I can't help but think about all the glen beck, AR15 buying shut in retards screaming about socialism and fascism. Those idiots have no idea.

Until families start getting bills for the 7.62 bullet used for a relatives' execution, they never will...