20 Years
This is the definition of bravery. I wish the world could know who this young man was. No sign of him has been heard ever since that day.
In China, Twitter and Facebook are blocked as the Government overreacts in fear to the 20th anniversary of the massacres at Tiananman Square. Any mention of Tiananman is forbidden in Chinese news. The photo above? Never to be found in China.
Also read this great Tiananman Voices piece from the BBC.
It’s almost as if the events of June 4th, 1989, when I was six years old, never happened.
EDIT:
Good AP story on the identity of Tank Man.
