Wonderdate: 2007
Wondered into being by: No-one is sure whom
Wonderspan: 6 min
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Here is a wonder of a completely different kind.
In June 1989 Chinese activists flooded Tiananmen Square in Peking (now Beijing) in a pro-democracy protest which had snowballed over several days. The Chinese government sent in the troops, who fired into the crowd, according to Kate Adie who was right on the spot at the time. They killed 'hundreds, possibly thousands of people', reports the BBC. By the next day a curfew had been imposed and the Chinese army rolled down the city's main street in a column of tanks to show that its ignominious loss of control had come to an end. People were left full of anger and despair, says Kate Adie.
Then something extraordinary happened... We've all seen this on telly but usually only very briefly - here's the longer footage:
In June 1989 Chinese activists flooded Tiananmen Square in Peking (now Beijing) in a pro-democracy protest which had snowballed over several days. The Chinese government sent in the troops, who fired into the crowd, according to Kate Adie who was right on the spot at the time. They killed 'hundreds, possibly thousands of people', reports the BBC. By the next day a curfew had been imposed and the Chinese army rolled down the city's main street in a column of tanks to show that its ignominious loss of control had come to an end. People were left full of anger and despair, says Kate Adie.
Then something extraordinary happened... We've all seen this on telly but usually only very briefly - here's the longer footage:
Although there are plenty of claims about who he was, and a few
about who the driver was, I can’t find any
reliable information about either or what happened to them afterwards. Does anyone
know?
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