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...political turbulence which took place in the late spring and early summer of 1989, Comrade Zhao committed serious mistakes." OFFICIAL STATEMENT on the life of ousted Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, following his funeral last Saturday. The obituary, which appeared in Chinese state-run media, also recognized Zhao's contribution to economic reforms...
...breach of a truce agreed between the government and local rebel factions last year. Annan said the incident was "the latest in a series of grave cease-fire violations." The Last Word CHINA Thousands of mourners attended the tightly controlled funeral in Beijing of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died Jan. 17. After the ceremony, the official Xinhua News Agency released an obituary referring to Zhao's "serious mistakes" in dealing with the 1989 student protests. Zhao was deposed after opposing that summer's Tiananmen Square crackdown. MEANWHILE IN MALAWI... Justice on Wheels High court and supreme court...
DIED. ZHAO ZIYANG, 85, once the great hope of Chinese political reformers, who lost his post after he publicly sided with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters; in Beijing. Zhao joined the Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...
...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...
...death. One carried the inscription, "Go with an Easy Heart." The most liberal leader China's Communist Party has ever known died in seclusion on Jan. 17 after spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew...