Pictures from June 4
October 12, 2019 8:34 AM Subscribe
"Massacre" is the title of this gallery of images from Tiananmen square in 1989. [CW: graphic content]
Wow. The iconic photo of the protestor standing in front of a tank seems almost sanitized.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 12:27 PM on October 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 12:27 PM on October 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
I hope some day what really happened is allowed to be talked about openly in China - I can’t imagine how hard it must be for the survivors to have to live silently with this. That said I can’t stress the Content Warning enough - there are images of the aftermath of tanks rolling over human bodies in here. It can’t be unseen.
posted by inflatablekiwi at 1:11 PM on October 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by inflatablekiwi at 1:11 PM on October 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
Yeah, photo #14 is horrifying.
I dread that we'll see exponentially more photos like these from Hong Kong in the near future.
posted by heteronym at 1:22 PM on October 12, 2019
I dread that we'll see exponentially more photos like these from Hong Kong in the near future.
posted by heteronym at 1:22 PM on October 12, 2019
Wow. The iconic photo of the protestor standing in front of a tank seems almost sanitized.
These aren't even the bad ones.
The world's attitude towards the government of the PRC is pretty distressing. OT1H, they're a despotic, murderous regime currently engaged in genocide that will quite happily just kill you if you're inconvenient and unimportant. OTOH, it's an easy place to make a buck. So the world sighs and makes that buck, and the boot keeps stamping on a human face.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 1:51 PM on October 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
These aren't even the bad ones.
The world's attitude towards the government of the PRC is pretty distressing. OT1H, they're a despotic, murderous regime currently engaged in genocide that will quite happily just kill you if you're inconvenient and unimportant. OTOH, it's an easy place to make a buck. So the world sighs and makes that buck, and the boot keeps stamping on a human face.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 1:51 PM on October 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
Yeah, those are... powerful images is an understatement.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:08 PM on October 12, 2019
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:08 PM on October 12, 2019
FYI growabrain that documentary you linked to has now been removed by YouTube for "violating YouTube's policy on violent or graphic content". Would you be able to give us the name of the documentary?
posted by toastyk at 5:21 PM on October 12, 2019
posted by toastyk at 5:21 PM on October 12, 2019
30 Years After Tiananmen, ‘Tank Man’ Remains an Icon and a Mystery
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 11:11 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 11:11 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
Thank God for at least one aspect of our current social media; Hong Kong would be a present day blood bath without it.
posted by buzzman at 10:33 AM on October 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by buzzman at 10:33 AM on October 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
interestingly, the anti-china Youtube video I linked ^ a week ago, had been taken down
posted by growabrain at 9:55 AM on October 19, 2019
posted by growabrain at 9:55 AM on October 19, 2019
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