Thursday, June 03, 2010

Chalk of the town


A cartoon that appears to refer to the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square has been printed in a Chinese newspaper. The image, in the Southern Metropolitan Daily, shows a boy drawing a person standing in front of three tanks. Online commentators have likened the image to the photograph of “tank man”, the protester who stopped a column of tanks during the demonstrations...
Full-ish story here.

PS: thanks to Agatha Slugg for the pic.

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