hey ive heard about this event in china and i kno nothing about it....if looked at wikipedia but i still dont understand it...can anyone explain the event in semi-laymen terms for me please? thanks
2007-09-23 19:42:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
What this PBS Frontline show. It will tell you everything and anything you need to know.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/
2007-09-27 18:13:59 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in 1985, scores of thousands of Chinese college students got a whiff of Western democratic freedom and staged a massive organized protest against Communism and human rights violations.
A central focal point of the protests came just as Chinese Army squashed the protests---when a lone student bravely stood in front of an advancing army tank, causing it to stop.
The videotaped moment, shown all over the world, is to this day hailed as a heroic symbol cry for the end of Communisitic tyranny and the end of human rights violations.
And what of that brave student? He was hurriedly escorted off the Square grounds, arrested, flash-tried/found guilty of treason.....and to this day lives in a prison cell.
2007-09-23 19:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think i was when a bunch of protestors, school kids, adults alike protested about like freedom of speech, opinions etx. cause china is a communist nation. so as more and more people rallied in tiananmen, the army came along and told everyone to go but as nobody listened, the army started to take over control of the area by force. after being repelled by blockades of students, the army then declared military law and was authorised to take over the square no matter what the cost using tanks and guns. and as a results hundreds died.
hope this helps :)
2007-09-23 19:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sad incident back in the past expose the misery of "The young one".
At that time could not read what they want.
The misery was only expose after the mystery of us-911.
That was the blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past being expose in the new millenium after the mystery of us-911.
Those "Young one" were blindly searching for our creator's universal gifts of life vital for the survival and advancement of living human kind that was lost in time for the good of mankind.
Luke 9.55-56
2007-09-23 21:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a protest rally for democracy in China. The army was brought in and they killed or jailed a lot of people.
2007-09-23 19:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by d b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋