Community | January 26, 2011 | 19 comments

Egypt's Tiananmen Square moment: A man makes a brave stand

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It's been an eventful few few days in the Middle-East and this video shows how Egypt gets its Tiananmen square moment when a man bravely stands in front of armored vehicle. Skip forward to 1:20 and watch him make a stand.
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  • EmperorThan
  • freecrack
  • toastyguy11
  • bailey78
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
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    • bailey78:

      Little is publicly known of the man's identity or that of the commander of the lead tank. Shortly after the incident, the British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin (王维林), a 19-year-old student[5] who was later charged with "political hooliganism" and "attempting to subvert members of the People's Liberation Army."[6] However, this claim has been rejected by internal Communist Party of China documents, which reported that they could not find the man, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights.[7] One party member was quoted as saying, "We can’t find him. We got his name from journalists. We have checked through computers but can’t find him among the dead or among those in prison."[7] Numerous theories have sprung up as to the man's identity and current whereabouts.[8]

      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 Richard Nixon, reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was executed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests.[2] 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. Other commentary has also insisted that the men who pulled him out of the tanks' way were not the secret police, but rather concerned civilians.

      The government of the People's Republic of China has made few statements about the incident or the people involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CPC General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang first stated (through an interpreter), "I can't confirm whether this young man you mentioned was arrested or not," and then replied in English, "I think never killed" [sic].[9] A June 2006 article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily stated that there are rumours that the man is now living in Taiwan.[8]

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

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • claybird121
  • bailey78
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Most people are good and decent , and some few are very brave . It is the rare few that are evil , that worry me . I wonder if the brave and compassionate are enough to counter the evil . I hope so .

    • 1 year ago
  • Dis_and_Dat_Kid
  • Incredulous
  • samthesixth
  • GISchmo
  • The_Pharaoh
  • LibertynJusticeforAll
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      LibertynJusticeforAll  

    • With that number of people they could have timed their pushes on the side of the water tanker with the wave action of the water inside, to continuously add energy to the wave and quickly flip the truck.Just like a swing. If they could just organize.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Pharaoh
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      The_Pharaoh  

    • Egypt is under siege by the dictator! literally thousands are arrested in masses and media is ognoring it, please deliver our message to the world... they even blocked Facebook, twitter google, youtube and most blogging services!! to keep news from leaking out! please spread the world, help us get the attention before more people get killed, till now we reached 5 dead people in a day and a half!!!
      please help us get some international media coverage... we want the tyrant out!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • couple of quick pocket knife slashes to the tires, and they could have kept that vehicle from moving forward...

      oh well, maybe next time.

    • 1 year ago
  • claybird121
  • OrbViper
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