A Question About That Guy and Those Tanks

[Japher]

If you have ever played Total Annihilation you'd know how annoying it can be when the tanks take off on you.

[Whoha]

flash tank rush...

[Japher]

yeah, it would of been funnier if that dude was flashing those tanks

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Japher
If you have ever played Total Annihilation you'd know how annoying it can be when the tanks take off on you.

C&C has this problem too. Especially with the construction dozers...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
"6.4 Event" (that's how we* call it, not some silly sensationalistic "Tiannanmen Massacre")

Hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed. It was a massacre.

[Japher]

C&C has this problem too. Especially with the construction dozers...

Yeah, stupid harvesters, harvesting in the middle of the enemy camp!!

[Odin]

That protestor was a hero.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed. It was a massacre.

The Glorious Chinese Peoples' Government does not "kill" its people. "Massacre" is such a silly sensationalistic word for something that didn't happen.

[Dr Strangelove]

If the tank had kept on rolling would it not have simply knocked him down and then passed right over him? Tanks usually have pretty high road clearence.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Japher
yeah, it would of been funnier if that dude was flashing those tanks

[Provost Harrison]

Very pretty lighting arrangement at the front!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Japher
That dude had a spear in his pocket, and that's why the tanks were scared - FACT!

From the OP of a thread I posted a while ago:

[Agathon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/75679.stm

Watch BBC correspondent Henry Tang's report
The lone Chinese protester who brought a column of tanks to a standstill in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 crackdown was never arrested and is still at large, a Hong Kong-based dissident group has said.


Seven hundren people were killed in the Tiananmen Square crackdown
Chinese students who supported the pro-democracy movement captured the attention of the world's media with their seven-week occupation of Tiananmen Square in June nine years ago.

However, the most memorable images are of a young man, carrying what appears to be a shopping bag, who refused to move out of the way of the advancing tanks.

He then climbed onto the leading tank and spoke to the driver.

The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Movement in China says it has obtained official documents that show the Chinese government does not know what happened to him.

Although the man was initially identified as Wang Weilin, the documents suggest the name was false.

In response to an inquiry, President Jiang Zemin is said to have blamed journalists for giving authorities the wrong name. The Chinese government gave up looking for the man after checking lists of the dead and imprisoned.

Time magazine has cited the unidentified protester as one of the "top 20 leaders and revolutionaries" of the 20th century.

Dubbing him "the Unknown Rebel," the American news journal said his moment of fame was seen by more people than laid eyes on Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and James Joyce combined.

Chinese authorities sent tanks into Tiananmen Square in the early hours of June 4, 1989 to break up an extended demonstration by Chinese student activists. Several hundred people were reported to have been killed.

China has never admitted publicly that there were any deaths as a result of the crackdown.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed. It was a massacre.

Some soldiers were killed too.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Some soldiers were killed too.

I can't find anything that says they were killed by the protestors, though, or that suggests that the protestors were violent. Everything indicates the opposite.