By what mechanism do you propose he was found and executed? The guy in the tank draws a masterpiece from memory and then the cops go door to door throughout the entire city to find this guy who… climbed on a tank? Really?
If there’s no evidence either way, apply Occams Razor. Less events have to line up for him to just having vanished among the population, thus making this outcome the likely one.
By what mechanism do you propose he was found and executed? The guy in the tank draws a masterpiece from memory and then the cops go door to door throughout the entire city to find this guy who… climbed on a tank? Really?
It’s possible it was plainclothes MSS officers who pulled him away, not fellow civilians.
No evidence either way though, beyond Jiang Zemin very nonchalantly admitting that the CPC had no idea who he was, so…
If there’s no evidence either way, apply Occams Razor. Less events have to line up for him to just having vanished among the population, thus making this outcome the likely one.