Remember that day- 18 years ago today- when tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square to squash a student protest for democracy, and all those kids were killed and arrested? There was that famous picture with the guy standing in front of the tank. You know about that, right?
Well, the Chinese government is doing its very best to make sure no one here does. If you google "Tiananmen Square" in China, all you get is pretty picture of the square and stuff. Wikipedia doesn't come up at all. It's one of the many sites that you can't access from China. I can't believe the measures taken here to censor information.
The "tank guy" doesn't even exist to the Chinese. No one knows who he is. He simply doesn't exist. I'm sure he and his family were erased. There is no information about him, anywhere.
I was planning to have some more information here about the massacre, but I can't find any, so if you're interested about what happened (or didn't happen...), you can google it from there.
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Tank man
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