10 days …

Posted by stuart on May 24th, 2010
2010
May 24

10 days ...10 days ...

… to remember those heroes of Tiananmen still standing as well as the fallen.

A gifted athlete, Fang Zheng’s legs were crushed to pulp when, having pushed a comrade to safety, he couldn’t clear the tank’s tread in time.

Last year he walked again for the first time in 20 years – since that fateful, shameful, unremembered day.

Allowed to leave China in the advent of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, he received the generous gift of prosthetics from a specialist organisation in the US.