06-19-2007, 11:58 PM | #1 |
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Slate pictorial
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/
This first photo is of a brother finding his sister dead in the back of a truck (picked up by the body collectors) after US helicopter fire. I always found this photo inspiring. I can almost hear him saying, "Torture is wrong." |
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The boy would not be complaining about torture but death.
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The guy in front of the tank stands against a totalitarian regime. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is not comfortable with state-sponsored torture.
But you're right, maybe he does support it. Or is indifferent. |
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There are two aspects to the tank pic. The man willing to stand in front. And the man not willing to run him over.
We forget about the latter. |
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My point it is cheap to make a political statement by somebody who boldly makes his own statement. To ride coattails of somebody in true anguish or truly heroic is ivory tower syndromatic. I thought I read about the man standing down the tank as having been murdered. Originally nobody knew his name.
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The reason for this, the tanks who were not willing to kill were from around Beijing, but then the army brought in the peasant army folk to kill the city folk.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Rebel
I am too insignificant to possibly cheapen the photograph. |
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Note confusion remains about the fate of this man.
There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn — former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon — reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was killed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests. In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China. An eyewitness account of the event published in October 2005 by Charlie Cole, a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine at the time, states that the man was arrested on the spot by the Public Security Bureau. The People's Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the person involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied "I think never killed."[1] A June 2006 article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily stated that the man is now residing in Taiwan.[2]
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Given my travels inside China, I guess he was arrested and executed. China has no qualms about executions. There are no living heroes in China, only martyrs.
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