There’s no discrimination in China
Let’s give credit where credit’s due: there’s absolutely no discrimination in China. None whatsoever.
It doesn’t matter whether you are:
- rich or poor
- male or female
- able-bodied or disabled
- black or white
- tall or short
- Christian or atheist
- young or old
… you’re still going to get the crap beaten out of you if dare to make the simplest of gestures in remembrance of one of the CCP’s few good men. That link is a report from the BBC that is no doubt sending a few ripples of alarm through the ranks of those that live in the hope (myself included) that it will one day be the CCP that initiates an act of remembrance and respect. Here’s what happened:
A 75-year old Chinese academic is in hospital after receiving what he called a brutal beating at a cemetery.
“Five minutes after I went in, five strong men suddenly appeared. They punched and kicked me until I fell to the ground and could not move any more. I’m 75 years old, you know,” he said.
Sun Wenguang said he had been trying to pay his respects to the late communist leader Zhao Ziyang, who was purged for supporting the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Mr Sun, 75, had visited Mr Zhao’s grave annually, but this year marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
The Chinese government treats its crushing of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square as taboo.
“I still can’t move now. I’m just lying in bed. What they did was audacious and unprincipled. Very savage. Especially as they did it to me before thousands of people,” Mr Sun said from a hospital in Shandong’s Jinan city.
“They wanted to punish me and let people know that Zhao Ziyang is not allowed to be memorialised,” he claimed.
He said he had suffered three broken ribs and injuries to his hands and legs in the attack at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Jinan on Saturday.
More here from the NYT.
It beggars belief that the man with the megaphone in this famous picture from 1989, a voice of moderation doing his best to persuade crowds to disperse in order to prevent the bloodshed that followed, should be so feared by China’s regime. He was a good man that actually lent credibility and respect to the Communist Party. When is Chinese insecurity over the Tiananmen issue going to end?
This was a truly appalling, and clearly CCP-sanctioned, act of brutality.