Chen Weiming takes a break from sculpting a military tank replica as part of his life-size monument called “Tank Man” in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in ...

But who was “Tank Man” and how has he remained a mystery? ... A man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Changan Boulevard in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.

The image of Tank Man quickly became a powerful symbol of both the bloody events of 4 June 1989 and of non-violent resistance, but the identity of the ‘unknown rebel’ and his fate remains unknown.

A lone demonstrator stands down a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, at the entrance to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. CNN via Getty Images. The famous images of Tank Man were taken on the morning of ...

Jeff Widener's iconic "Tank Man" photo on June 5, 1989, showing an unidentified man standing in front of a column of tanks after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, China. Jeff Widener/AP ...

The most famous photo of Tiananmen Square is known as "Tank Man". The Tiananmen protests were immortalised in Western media on 5 June 1989 through the image of a lone man in a white shirt carrying ...

The famous tank man photo is an iconic image captured during the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China, on this day in 1989. Worldcrunch.

Hundreds of pages of secret documents leaked to the ABC provide a rare glimpse into how human censors and AI erase references to Beijing's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.