“Brother Six” tells how he smuggled more than 100 protesters to safety after the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989
5:30AM BST 18 May 2014
It is almost 25 years since the crackdown on a pro-democracy movement around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 led to a bloody massacre.
In the bloody aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre, as the Communist party hunted down the leaders of the student protests, activists in Hong Kong gingerly brokered a meeting with the underworld boss, Brother Six.
What followed was a series of incredible escapes engineered by political activists, triads like Brother Six and Western diplomats that spirited at least 150 people out of China under the noses of the authorities, first to Hong Kong, then a British territory, and then onwards to France and the United States.
From The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10837438/How-a-Triad-gangster-saved-Tiananmen-Square-demonstrators.html