Massacre. It wasn't just a protest. Hundreds were gunned down and their bodies squished by tanks.
The CIA files have also been leaked which provides more information about that happened that day. As always the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle. Not as bad as the western media says it was but worse than the Chinese government admits.
I always find it weird that no one seems to care about the Nanjing massacre which was much bigger or that Tulsa massacre which most Americans seem to be unaware of...
I've never heard anyone say that he was.
It turns out that there was a video that shows him being taken away by other civilians the whole time.
I'm not sure how that is relevant and I believe the declassified material you are referring to was an NSA cable sent on the day of the event, when very little was known. Wikipedia has details on the various sources for anyone interested.
The Nanjing Massacre was a horrific incident and I would urge anyone visiting Nanjing to visit the memorial.
That said, one incident was a wartime civilian massacre from an invading army where that army has been defeated and is largely a different country now. The other was the killing of protesting civilians by their own government, which is still in power and broadly unchanged.
Given this, it's clear why one is more topical than the other
I was never taught about the Nanjing massacre or Unit 731 but we spent a lot of time talking about Tiananmen square and Holocaust.
I now know that a lot of my education was biased and I assume other people are completely unaware. Most people I've talked to don't know about the rest of the video which is why I brought it up.
Now I found out that the media has had this footage the whole time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk
My favourite part is the grandmother that comes up and tells him off for annoying the tank.
Please do research before posting comments on a sensitive subject.
There was more to Tiananmen than Tank Man.
I always find it weird when people spring up in threads like this to spout disinformation and whataboutism then act so innocently about it.
I was just told disinformation growing up along with virtually everyone I grew up with. Maybe your country was more honest about it but mine wasn't (Australia). Most people that I talk to still think he was run over.
I made the point because I assume other people don't know either...
The videos on him were released only much later on.
My teacher should have known about it.
Now I found out that the media has had this footage the whole time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk but didn't air it.
I understand why. It was blatant propaganda from the west. It makes the story more interesting since people wonder if he was run over which was never stated but implied when I was told: "we don't know what happened after this photo was taken".
Why are you assuming that it's propaganda? You are the only one in this thread who seems to have associated Tank Man with being run over. Nobody else thought that happened, because there was no footage of it. It's just you.
The reason why I call it propaganda is because it is. The photos and videos are true. But the media decided to just show a small clip of the footage to make it more dramatic and suppressed the whole clip for years. The whole clip is less dramatic. Basically the same as the 3rd example https://www.boredpanda.com/examples-media-truth-manipulation...
Look at all the videos for the 30-year anniversary. None of them use the full clip. All the ones I've seen either just include the photo or cut out as the 3rd tank roles to a stop.
I've become more disillusioned with the media the more I travel and experience news as it happens and see how biased it is.
Meanwhile, insinuations of disinformation, ill intent, shillage, spying, foreign agents, and all the rest of it, poison the well of this community. It's a big problem. Please don't do it again, regardless of how strongly you feel about some issue or country.