Who was the Tiananmen Square Tank Man and how is he being remembered today?

Support trulyindependent journalismSupport NowOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Louise ThomasEditorToday marks the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing.Remembered in China more euphemistically as the 4 June incident, the events of that day in early summer 1989 are among the bloodiest in modern political history.Hundreds of civilians were killed by the 200,000-strong People’s Liberation Army in a brutal crackdown on student pro-democracy protesters that sent shockwaves around the world.The military had been called in after Deng Xiaoping’s governing Communist Party of China (CPC) declared martial law in the capital, seeking to end six weeks of nationwide demonstrations.One million Chinese youth had occupied the famous landmark to stage hunger strikes and call for an end to state corruption, greater...