Mass Murder At Tiananmen Square!

Mass Murder At Tiananmen Square!


Tank Man of 1989 Wang Weilin, or the Unknown Rebel is the nickname of the anonymous man who became internationally famous, when he was filmed and photographed standing before a line of seventeen or more tanks, during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 in the People's Republic of China.

The photo was taken by Jeff Widener, a member of the Associated Press, from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away through a 400mm lens.

The still and motion photography of the man standing alone before a line of tanks, reached international audiences practically overnight. It headlined hundreds of major newspapers and news magazines, and was the lead story on countless news broadcasts around the world.

In April 1998, the United States magazine TIME included the "Unknown Rebel" in its 100 most influential people of the 20th century

Incidentally, the true identity or validity of who Wang Weilin was, is still to be validated! Could the bravery of that man on that infamous day, be re-lived once again in China?

That is yet to be realized, considering the great divide between the new middle classes, the wealthy, and the privileged, in the big and ever growing cities.

At the demise of the millions in rural China, still clinging for survival in an economy, that seem to cater more to the Big City's economic development. And the Communist Party's political quest to compete as equals in the global economy.

Derryck S. Griffith.
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