Breaking News – Zhao Ziyang secretary supports redressing Tian’anmen and Falun Gong issues
Recently, Sun Wenguang, a retired professor from Shandong University, published an open letter to the representatives of the People’s Representatives’ Conference and Political Consultative Conference, urging them to discuss the issue of two severe human rights abuses in China: the Tian’anmen Square Massacre and the persecution of Falun Gong. On this issue, reporters from Sound of Hope interviewed Bao Tong, secretary of Zhao Ziyang, the former Communist Party’s General Secretary. Mr. Bao said he was very supportive of Prof. Sun’s suggestion and he believed that the People’s Representatives’ Conference should discuss the issues ordinary people otherwise it was not representative of the people.
In his open letter, Prof. Sun said that as the Beijing Olympics were approaching, people throughout China were calling for the redressing of the Tian’anmen Square Student Pro-democracy movement and restoring the reputation of Zhao Ziyang who supported the students. Sun also stated in the letter that, since the start of the crackdown on Falun Gong in 1999, practitioners who were against the persecution and telling the truth about the situation to the world, had been arrested and detained, and this situation was still happening at the opening of the two conferences and to this day.
Bao was the Policy Secretary of Zhao Ziyang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party. After the Tian’anmen Square Massacre, he was sentenced to seven-years imprisonment. He was the highest government official to be charged in relation to the 1989 movement.
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March 10th, 2008
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