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- yuekit5
- Was watching this a week ago and just realized today is the official anniversary of these events. This is an excellent documentary IMO.yuekit
- The craziest part is that 31 years later, no one knows who this guy is or what happened to him. For all we know, he could still be living in China somewhere.yuekit
- im not so optimistic. i think cpc made him disappear.pango
- There is nothing to go on at all except for the two guys who whisked him away at the end. Were they government or did he just escape into the crowd?yuekit
- Not sure but I'm not optimistic about itpango
- UK journalist say his name is Wang Weilin, but got rejected by the CPC saying they have no records of such a man. Im with Pango, CPC made him disappear.Sellies
- You can hear them talk about it here
https://www.youtube.…yuekit - The guy who took the tank man photo seems to think he was captured, but some of the other journalists who witnessed it think he got away.yuekit
- also the the video was taken after roughly 10,000 people in beijing was killed.pango
- Well that was the whole point right? He was disgusted and fed up with all of the violence.yuekit
- ya which made it even more incredible. he knew the military assholes were killing people left and right.pango
- The military were mostly peasants brought in from the least educated areas. It's quite possible the guy driving the tank was equally fed up.yuekit