What happened after the the Unknown Rebel from Tiananmen Square protested?

Question

Did the government stop the violent protests or anything; did he get what the protesters wanted?

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Answer 1

Nobody knows what happened to him. Some say they let him go. Others claim that the Chinese government killed him. Nobody got what they wanted. The government ended up killing "400" people in the square, but it was probably more like 4,000.

Answer 2

Nobody knows what happened to him.

The protestors did not get what they wanted. The government did stop the protests (that's why the tanks were there).

Answer 3

According to unconfirmed reports on several short wave radio outlets in the Pacific and Asia, he was arrested and hanged within weeks of his stepping in front of that tank.

Since the students first gathered in the square to protest the plans of the Ministry of Education to reduce their monthly monetary stipends while attending university ( a move by that Ministry which would have violated Mao's concept of the "iron rice bowl" where the right to sustenance was the primary human right in China), one could say that the student demonstrators did win because that Ministry canceled that proposed action.

The protests weren't violent. Even when marching the students were singing the "Socialist Internationale" and "The East Is Red". So, they weren't even engaged in revolutionary behavior. The army unit sent in to clear the square was made up of troops from other ethnic groups other than Han Chinese because one does not attack students without running afoul of a deeply held value in Chinese culture.

In short, the U.S. TV outlets did a miserable job of reporting the reason for the demonstrations and the reaction to those demonstrations taken by the Chinese government.