lukan schrieb am 30.05.2024 15:58:
Tja, warum das "scheinbar" selbstlos?
Auf welche persönlichen Vorteile kann man denn da so hoffen, wenn man sich vor anrollende Panzer stellt?
Ruhm?
Davon dürfte er in seiner Zelle während der Verhöre bis zur Hinrichtung kaum etwas mitbekommen haben. Denn das war sein wahrscheinliches Schicksal. Einer der Verschwundenen.
Es scheint unklar zu sein was mit ihm passierte, die Gerüchte divergieren ziemlich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#Identity_and_disappearance
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 US President Richard Nixon, alleged that he was executed 14 days later; other sources alleged he was executed 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 she believes from her interactions with the government press that they have "no idea who he was either" and that he is still alive somewhere on the mainland.
Another theory is that he escaped to Taiwan and remains employed there as an archaeologist in the National Palace Museum. This was first reported by the Yonhap news agency in South Korea.
The Chinese government has made few statements about the incident or the people involved. The government denounced him as a "scoundrel" once on state television, but it was never shown publicly again.
In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang first stated (through an interpreter), "I can't confirm whether this young man you mentioned was arrested or not", and then replied in English, "I think [that he was] never killed."
The government also argued that the incident evidenced the "humanity" of the country's military.
In a 2000 interview with Mike Wallace, Jiang said, "He was never arrested." He then stated, "I don't know where he is now." He also emphasized that the tank stopped and did not run the young man over.