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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That did not appear to matter in the red-walled Zhongnanhai compound, where China's leaders live and work. The dead apparently did not matter either to the aging revolutionaries who came to power by force 40 years ago -- and used force to keep it. Reason itself did not seem to matter. The government that once trumpeted the need to "seek truth from facts" manufactures facts to buttress lies...
...then the arrests had started. All over Beijing, Chinese who had Western friends began to disappear, either into hiding or, in increasing numbers, into jails. In one incident opposite the foreign-community compound of Qijiayuan, some 30 Chinese were taken in by security forces. In another part of town, 28 more were led away. "It is the night of the long knives," said a Western diplomat. The total in custody at week...
Furthermore, soldiers on trucks careened through the diplomatic quarter, shouting "Go home! Go home!" Yet others sprayed bullets into the walls and windows of Jianguomenwai, a compound occupied by foreigners. One diplomatic analyst is convinced that under the cover of random gunfire, military snipers were deliberately shooting up apartments inhabited by diplomats who had the previous night disrupted what appeared to be preparations for a surreptitious execution of young Chinese men. "What they did in the foreign compound," said this intelligence expert, "was to attempt to drive out every foreign eye so they can go about their executions." Western photographers...
Harvard officials continued to lead American academics' efforts to support China's embattled pro-democracy movement yesterday, while foreign embassies ordered their citizens out of Beijing after Chinese army troops sprayed a diplomatic compound with gunfire...
Soldiers in Beijing sprayed bullets at a diplomatic compound and several other buildings in a foreign residential area, almost hitting two children of a U.S. embassy official. The embassy ordered the evacuation of all dependents of staff members, and thousands of foreigners went to the airport hoping to get tickets...