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Who was Tank Man, the unidentified man who stood in front of the tank column near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, and what became of him?

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Wikipedia (Tank Man, lead section): "Tank Man is an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks on Chang'an Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989." No name, fate, or identity for the man has ever been confirmed by any government or news organization, decades after the event. 1
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A credible, independently verified identification of the man (by name, with corroborating documentary or eyewitness evidence accepted by reliable secondary sources), or a confirmed account of his fate. 1
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Wikipedia (Tank Man, lead section): "Tank Man is an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks on Chang'an Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989." No name, fate, or identity for the man has ever been confirmed by any government or news organization, decades after the event.

What would resolve this A credible, independently verified identification of the man (by name, with corroborating documentary or eyewitness evidence accepted by reliable secondary sources), or a confirmed account of his fate.
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