The full Tiananmen Square tank man picture is much more powerful than the cropped one

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image showing The full Tiananmen Square tank man picture is much more powerful than the cropped one

walrus_operator on May 12nd, 2020 at 20:15 UTC »

I hadn't realize that the protester had blocked the whole army and not a few tanks... The whole picture is indeed much more powerful than the cropped picture I'm used to seeing.

d-wale on May 12nd, 2020 at 20:34 UTC »

What happened to him in the end?

petrov76 on May 12nd, 2020 at 21:47 UTC »

The British Ambassador's report was recently declassified. You can find a copy of it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre

He described the events graphically, including such events as:

STUDENTS LINKED ARMS BUT WERE MOWN DOWN INCLUDING SOLDIERS. APCS THEN RAN OVER BODIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MAKE QUOTE PIE UNQUOTE AND REMAINS COLLECTED BY BULLDOZER. REMAINS INCINERATED AND THEN HOSED DOWN DRAINS.

4 WOUNDED GIRL STUDENTS BEGGED FOR THEIR LIVES BUT WERE BAYONETED. A 3 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS INJURED BUT HER MOTHER WAS SHOT AS SHE WENT TO HER AID AS WERE SIX OTHERS WHO TRIED.

ARMY AMBULANCES WHO ATTEMPTED TO GIVE AID WERE SHOT UP AS WAS A SINO-JAPANESE HOSPITAL AMBULANCE. WITH MEDICAL CREW DEAD WOUNDED DRIVER ATTEMPTED TO RAM ATTACKERS BUT WAS BLOWN TO PIECES BY ANTI TANK WEAPON.