Subject: CND-Global, June 5, 1993

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 22:16:01 -0500

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                           Saturday, June 5, 1993

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1. News Briefs (5 Items) ................................................ 49
2. On the 4th Memorial Day of Tiananmen Square Crackdown ................ 60
3. A Gentler China: A Special Report by The New York Times
     -- 4 Years After Tiananmen, The Hard Line Is Cracking (Part III) .. 118
4. June 5, 1989: Troops Rampage Through Beijing;
                 Beijing Citizens Show Courage Beyond Belief ........... 123
5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #20(zk9306a1 & zk9306a2)?  30
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1. News Briefs (5 Items) ................................................ 49
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[IFCSS Headquarters, 6/4/93] The Regulation for the implementation of CSPA
is almost ready for release by U.S. INS.  You may start to prepare for the
CSPA application now. (From: [email-masked]) [The IFCSS Headquarters News
Release No. 4134 was relayed by CND-US on the same day - editor]
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CANBERRA -- In the evening of June 3 about 50 Chinese and Australians
held a candle light rally in front of the Democracy and Freedom Monument,
Peace Park, North Adelaide to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the 1989
Beijing massacre.  The speakers urged the Chinese Government to improve
human rights conditions and release all political prisoners. They warned
that without democratic reformation the increased social tension, injustice
and corruption will be a timed bomb. The rally is co-organised by the
Chinese Democracy Support Group of South Australia, the SA branch of
Alliance of Chinese Democracy, the PRC Chinese Welfare Service of SA, the
Amnesty International and the SA branch of Tibetan Council of Australia.
(Forwarded by: Weimin Zhang)
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6/2/93 -- Add Internet to the growing number of electronic addresses now
available for contacting the White House. Bill Clinton's personal Internet
user ID is "[email-masked]." Vice President Al Gore's Internet
number is "[email-masked]." In perhaps the first presidential
statement about e-mail, Clinton said, "Electronic mail will bring the
presidency and this administration closer and make it more accessible to the
people."  Washington Post writer John Burgess noted, "People who send
complaints or praise by E-mail won't reach the president directly. The
messages will be read by the White House correspondence staff. A sampling
will be shown to the president and Vice President Gore."
(Forwarded by: Deming)
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[UPI, 6/2/93] HONG KONG -- A nine-year-old boy in southern China joined his
friends to celebrate China's Children's Day holiday Tuesday, one day after
police rescued him from a kidnapping ordeal in which he spent 35 days tied
up with tape over his eyes, the Wen Wei Po newspaper said Wednesday.
Kidnappers seized Yan Yulin on his way home from school on April 26 in
Shunde City in Guangdong Province, which borders Hong Kong.  The three men,
who owed large gambling debts, called Yan's parents that afternoon demanding
500,000 yuan ($87,000) in ransom, threatening to cut off the child's hands
and feet if the parents went to the police.  Shunde police caught up with
two of the kidnappers in Canton, Sunday afternoon, and then reached Yan.
(Forwarded by: A CND Reader)
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[CND, 6/5/93] In June 4th CND-Global, news item No.2 "Beijing University
Students Commemorate June 4th" was erroneously dated "6/3/92", it should
be "6/3/93", we apologize for the mistake.

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2. On the 4th Memorial Day of Tiananmen Square Crackdown ................ 60
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Forwarded by: Zhao Hua
Source: AP
Date: 6/4/93

BEIJING -- As the fourth anniversary of the crackdown on China's democracy
movement passed quietly Friday, Hou Xiaotian explained why she feels
heartbroken.

"My husband was sentenced to 13 years in jail because of June 4," the
30-year-old woman said in an interview. "We're apart because of June 4.
He's locked up. I'm alone at home."

Hou's husband, Wang Juntao, was jailed by the Communist government on
charges of masterminding protests during the seven-week, student-led
democracy movement that was centered at Tiananmen Square.

He suffers from hepatitis B, a serious liver ailment, and heart disease.
Her life has become a blur of campaigning to have him released so he can
receive better medical care than in the prison hospital.

Last weekend, Hou was informed her husband would be moved to a regular
hospital, so she canceled plans to start a hunger strike Friday. But the
anniversary remains a day of melancholy.

"Whenever June 4 comes, I know that it caused my entire life to change,"
she said.

Four years ago, soldiers shot their way through the city to quash the
movement that drew up to 1 million demonstrators in Beijing and spread to
dozens of cities around the country. Hundreds died and thousands were
arrested.

Since then, the government has increased security forces in Beijing to
prevent protests on the anniversary. As usual, the police presence was
heaviest in Tiananmen Square and around college campuses.

There were far fewer sightseers in Tiananmen on Friday than on a normal
day, indicating that workplaces again warned their employees to stay away.
Scores of plainclothesmen closely monitored anyone who looked suspicious.

At Beijing University, a center of student activism, school officials
flooded several lawns Thursday to prevent crowds from gathering. Police set
up checkpoints on roads leading to the university Thursday and Friday
evenings and and turned away foreigners' cars.

Several Beijing dissidents were warned to stay home and avoid meeting with
large groups of friends, and others left town to avoid confrontations with
authorities.

In Shanghai, authorities detained a dissident Thursday who tried to
organize an anniversary gathering. Zhang Xianliang was released on Friday.
But authorities sought out as many as 60 of his friends to prevent them
from gathering as planned at a park.

In Hong Kong, about 40,000 people gathered in the rain for a candlelight
vigil to mark the anniversary, singing songs to honor those who were killed
or jailed. Giant television screens showed footage of the tanks, troops and
bloodied students in Tiananmen Square. The crowd watched silently and some
wept.

Overall, though, Beijing seemed less tense than on previous anniversaries,
reflecting that many Chinese have turned their attention from political
issues to making money.

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3. A Gentler China: A Special Report by The New York Times
     -- 4 Years After Tiananmen, The Hard Line Is Cracking (Part III) .. 118
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: The New York Times
Written by: Nicholas D. Kristof
Date: 5/29/93

(Part III of a three part series; continued from yesterday)

The Future: Could Tiananmen Happen Again?

Perhaps the most fundamental question is whether it could all happen again
-- the posters, the protests, the democracy slogans reverberating across
Tiananmen Square, and then the staccato of machine-gun fire.

Most Chinese doubt that protesters will take to the streets any time soon,
but then they said the same thing in early 1989. In one of the fastest-
growing economies in the world, a certain satisfaction might be expected.
But scratch the surface, and many people show profound irritation at the
way things are.

Indeed, the factors that provoked the 1989 protests -- alarm at inflation
and corruption and a vague yearning for more democracy -- seem far
stronger today.  Corruption is worse, inflation is gathering strength, and
the killings of students at Tiananmen insure that the Government has much
less legitimacy now than in 1989.

Those Devilish 'Reforms'

People speak in fury at the corruption, at the perception that the job
description of a Government official these days is to spend the days
pocketing bribes and the evenings playing with prostitutes at luxury
hotels. Workers worry about the real meaning of "reforms": housing reform
means rents go up, health reform means workers pay their own hospital
bills, labor reform means lay-offs.

"Everybody is talking about how prices are going up," an artist in Beijing
said. He added, so indignant that he was oblivious to his exaggeration,
"People can scarcely survive these days; you can't afford to eat."

The economy is overheating, with inflation 20 percent. A recession would
solve the inflation problem but would create its own risks of unrest.

One warning indicator came in Tibet, as hundreds of protesters demonstrated
on May 24 to denounce rising prices. Within hours, the slogans turned
political, and the authorities had to fire tear gas to restore order.

Perhaps the most compelling argument against the possibility of renewed
street demonstrations is simply lingering fear. For while most people seem
less afraid of the Government than they were a year or two ago, students
and workers alike now realize that they risk severe punishment if they
directly tackle the Communist Party.

Happy New Year, in Jail

One of the few people who is not intimidated at all is Hou Xiaotian, 30,
wife of a "counterrevolutionary," Wang Juntao, who is serving a 13-year
prison sentence for his role in the Tiananmen protests. Miss Hou, who
herself has been detained several times for her criticism of the
authorities, acknowledges that the economic boom has led to a less
restrictive economic, cultural and political environment.

"They're giving us a bit more room," she said over lunch in the downtown
hotel where she holds court, ignoring the plainclothes police who are at
their wits' end trying to control her. " China is making progress, but
it's not as if the Communist Party voluntarily chose this road. The party
had no choice."

"And the progress is limited," she added. "For example, they invited me to
prison at Chinese New Year to make dumplings with my husband. They wanted
to photograph it for the English-language news media, to show how nice
they are.

"It was good to be with my husband for the evening. But Chinese New Year
is for spending at home, not in prison. And at the end of the evening I
had to go home. So what was the point of it all, except to make me cry?"

Recently Released

Wang Dan, the 24-year-old student leader of the Tiananmen movement,
released in February.

Xu Wenli, a 49-year-old leader of the 1978-79 Democracy Wall movement,
released May 26 after spending 12 years in solitary confinement.

Bao Zunxin, a 55-year-old historian released in November, after
three-and-a-hal f years of imprisonment for supporting the Tiananmen
movement.

Wu Jiaxiang, a 38-year-old poet and political researcher, was released
last summer after three years in prison for supporting the student
protests and drafting slogans critical of Government leaders.

Wang Xizhe, a 44-year-old veteran campaigner for democracy, was released
in February after serving nearly 12 years of a 14-year sentence for
joining the Democracy Wall movement.

Still In Prison

Wei Jingsheng, a 43-year-old essayist arrested in March 1979 during the
crackdown on the Democracy Wall movement. Serving a 15-year sentence for
counter-revolution and revealing state secrets, due to be released next
March.

Ren Wanding, 48, the first Chinese to emphasize the concept of "human
rights" instead of just democracy. An account and Democracy Wall activist,
Ren served four years in prison in the 1980's, and then was rearrested for
his role in the 1989 Tiananmen movement and sentenced to seven years.

Wang Juntao, 34, a writer, editor and researcher, is serving a 13-year
sentence for their involvement in the Tiananmen movement. He is ill with
hepatitis and other ailments.

Chen Ziming, 41, an edito and economist, is serving a 13-year sentence
for his part in the democracy movment.

Chen Lantao, a 30-year-old marine biologist, serving an 18-year-sentence
for making speeches and blocking traffic during the Tiananmen movement.

Bao Tong, a 60-year-old former member of the Central Committee, was the
political secretary to the Politburo and is the most senior official to
have been arrested. He is serving a seven-year-sentence for supporting the
Tiananmen movement and leaking state secrets.

(The end)

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4. June 5, 1989: Troops Rampage Through Beijing;
                 Beijing Citizens Show Courage Beyond Belief ........... 123
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Source: Compiled by Zuofeng Li from the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los
        Angeles Times, and Reuters, June 5, 1989

BEIJING - Machine-gun and small arms fire ripped through the heart of the
capital last night and early this morning as security forces continued to
savagely suppress China's short-lived Freedom Spring.

Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles clattered through the streets, firing
long bursts from turret-mounted machine guns. At times the fire was directed
at crowds of protesters still milling at intersections.

The Chinese official media proclaimed that the military had won a "glorious
victory" over "scoundrels and rebellious elements."  The government pledged
to act "mercilessly" to "crush turmoil."  Merciless is almost too mild a
word to describe the military rampage.

In an assault witnessed by this reporter last night, soldiers firing AK-47
assault rifles charged a small knot of demonstrators on a major avenue. The
protesters quickly dispersed. The soldiers then abruptly turned down a
narrow market lane, shooting indiscriminately as shoppers screamed and
scrambled for cover.

A young woman was killed, shot in the throat while carrying a basket of
apricots. Several other people were seriously wounded.  The soldiers made no
attempt to assist the wounded.

Sections of the capital resembled a war zone, with dozens of buses burning
at major intersections. Helicopters droned continuously overhead. Changan
Avenue was strewn with rubble, smashed bicycles and overturned military
trucks.

Three soldiers were reported killed, two of them crushed by their own tanks.

Tiananmen Square was cordoned off by at least 75 tanks and thousands of
troops. Smoke rose as soldiers apparently set fire to the tents and lean-tos
that had sheltered the youthful protesters.

Soldiers positioned around the square fired upon four Western journalists
who approached on foot in daylight.

In at least seven major cities across China, crowds marched to protest the
Beijing massacre. The cities included Shanghai, Changsha, Dalian and
Shenyang.  Troops did not intervene to stop the marches in the provincial
cities.

Meanwhile, the remaining Tiananmen protesters were barricaded in the campus
of Beijing University and the adjacent People's University, where they had
driven a captured armored personnel carrier.  Students could be seen firing
the vehicle's machine gun into the air. Memorial vigils were held on the
sprawling campus.

Early Monday morning, tanks roared up and down Changan Avenue, crushing
hastily constructed barricades of food carts, bicycles and scraps of wood
and metal. As the army trucks and tanks raced by, small knots of people
cursed them, shaking their fists.

"Why don't you go home," shouted a pedicab driver. "You don't belong here
with your guns pointed at us."

No sooner had the man spoken than one grinning soldier aimed his AK-47 rifle
over the head of the driver and his passenger and fired several bursts. Both
hit the ground, causing the soldier to roar with laughter.

"Pigs!" yelled the driver.

Gunfire rocked the city's embassy section at about 1 p.m. as troops moved
north past the compound housing the American ambassador's residence and the
press and cultural section of the U.S. Embassy.

"They're shooting right outside my office!" U.S. Embassy spokesman Andy Koss
suddenly shouted in the midst of an early afternoon telephone interview.
"They're army trucks. They're heading north on the road next to my office.
Oh goddam it! It's unbelievable. They've got guns ready, they're shooting up
into the air."

A column of 10 tanks and 10 armored personnel carriers that headed east out
of Tian An Men Square around noon was stopped by a single man who stood in
front of the lead tank, according to a Western witness. He climbed up on the
tank, talked with someone inside, then climbed down and walked away alive.

Late Monday morning, a crowd stood surrounding soldiers at the Jianguomen
Bridge, where some people have been shot to death.

Beginning around 1 p.m., gunfire was heard near the bridge. It was not
immediately known whether people were injured or killed, but shortly after
1:30 p.m., an army truck was set on fire on the main highway near the
bridge, and ammunition on the truck could be heard exploding.

A witness said the truck had broken down and been left behind when a convoy
of about 100 vehicles passed by. Someone took a crowbar, forced open the gas
tank and dropped in the burning stuffing from a captured helmet.

Protesters then moved on to at least seven other nearby abandoned army
trucks and methodically set them on fire.

About 30 tanks and 15 truckloads of soldiers took up fighting positions
facing east along the Changan Avenue at the major Jianguomenwai intersection,
and explosions and small-arms fire were heard later, witnesses said.

One Western diplomat described seeing a solitary man crouching behind a bush
laboriously making a petrol bomb in the early hours of Monday as an army
convoy passed yards away from him. He finally made a direct hit on a tank.

According to Chinese witnesses, a mob in southwest Beijing lynched an army
officer and left his corpse hanging from a bridge. There have also been
cases of students sheltering captured soldiers from the wrath of other
citizens.

But mainly the hatred of troops has brought a solidarity. "There has never
been a unity among Beijing people as there is now," said one old man.

"We cannot cry any more. It is too evil for tears," said a young woman
shortly after troops shot two people dead near her home. "We can only fight
and try to tell the world."

"Blood must be repaid with blood," read one slogan daubed on a wall on
Monday.

A diplomat commented: "So far the blood is flowing mostly one way."

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>From: Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board <[email-masked]>  06/05/93

                        Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan
                   (Supplement to CND Chinese Magazine)
                            Special Issue #20

                         "June 4th Memorial (II)"

              (Posted in Two Packages: zk9306a1 & zk9306a2)

                               June 5, 1993

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                       Table of Contents (zk9306a1)
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 1. Foreword ............................................................CND
 2. Prose: I Dare Not Forget .................................... Zhang Boli
 3. Reportage: Exile Inside the Iron Curtain (Part 1 of 2) ...... Zhang Boli
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 1. Reportage: Exile Inside the Iron Curtain (Part 2 of 2) ...... Zhang Boli
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