# What happened to the Tiananmen Square guy ?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 20, 2002, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-square-guy/99186 "2002-03-20T09:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-square-guy/99186/1 "2002-03-20T09:02:19Z")

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You know the one in the photo, stopping the tanks ? What happened to him ?

Was he imprisoned ? executed ? escaped ? ignored ?

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-square-guy/99186/2 "2002-03-20T09:55:11Z")

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AFAIK, he was never identified and remains undetected in China.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-square-guy/99186/3 "2002-03-20T11:30:57Z")

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I was told the shot the guy but it appears that was BS.

[Tiananmen ‘tank man’ still at large](http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_75000/75679.stm)

I’m very happy about this as the man had balls of steel and I was quite pissed to think that they shot him.