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30 years ago a Chinese tank column stopped for ‘Tank Man.’ Fang Zheng wasn’t so lucky - Los Angeles Times

30 years ago a Chinese tank column stopped for ‘Tank Man.’ Fang Zheng wasn’t so lucky  Los Angeles Times

Everyone remembers China’s “Tank Man,” who stood with bags in his hands, blocking a line of tanks withdrawing from Tiananmen Square a day after the fatal June 4, 1989, military crackdown against pro-democracy protesters. Thirty years later, Fang Zheng wonders why the tanks stopped for that man, but rolled right over him as he and other students soberly retreated west along Chang’an Avenue after leaving Tiananmen Square in the early hours of that fateful day. He remembers his trouser leg getting trapped in the tank’s caterpillar track and the feeling of being dragged along the ground before ...

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