eli5: what is the context and the full story of the man infront of a tank video/picture
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I’m not nearly educated enough on this subject to provide an answer beyond a TL;DR…
Chinese gov’t in the 80s encountered anti-government protests organized by university students. The gov’t’s response? Sending in local military operatives & riot control officers and opening fire.
Most pictures like that wouldn’t exist if there weren’t press members in China from other countries at the time. IIRC, a lot of those press members were either killed, or captured & disappeared into China’s state prison system.
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