1989: Politburo Members Tried to Run Away with Money

• published: 29 Jan 2015
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Recently declassified memos from Canada show that top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders had approached Swiss diplomats about sending "very significant amounts of money" to bank accounts in their country, as the 1989 Tiananmen protests shook Beijing, reported British media. “The new claims suggest greater fears for the government's stability at the heart of the Communist Party than previously thought” says The Telegraph, and shows how the officials tried to find a way out. The Telegraph reported on Monday that, Tom Korski, a former Beijing correspondent for the South China Morning Post newspaper, obtained messages from Canada's national archives, including confidential diplomatic cables from the Canadian embassy in Beijing 26 years ago. “One of the most explosive allegations in thousands of pages of documents is that, as unrest gripped the Chinese capital in 1989, top Communist Party leaders explored ways of sending large sums of money to Switzerland,” it says. Zhang Jian, China Social Problems Researcher: "Back in 1989, the older generation were saying that since the ruling of the CCP, the officials had become rotten to the core, and there were millions of cases of corruption.” “The declassified documents from Canada prove that the core was indeed rotten by 1989." "The Swiss Ambassador, himself an 'Old China Hand', told us that over the past few months every member of the Politburo Standing Committee has approached him about transferring very significant amounts of money to Swiss bank accounts," said a cable, according to Mr Korski’s report. Zheng Cunzhu, 1989 Students Movement Participant: "The officials don’t think about the country, only themselves, and they’re extremely insecure about the dictatorial regime.” “Whenever there’s crises, their first thought is not about safeguarding the regime, but to escape.” “This confidential memo shows why people are sickened by the CCP’s rule and that even the leadership knows that it is bound to collapse." “The new claims suggest greater fears for the government's stability at the heart of the Communist Party than previously thought,” reported The Telegraph. Zhang Jian: "The CCP officials have deprived the country and its people of their wealth, through bloody revolutions.” “They fear that their crimes will be exposed and their assets liquidated, once the people grasp the power; that’s why democratic reform hasn’t yet be realized in China.” “Once there are signs of the CCP collapsing, the officials only run for their lives." “The dispatches paint a bleak and bloody picture of military offenses in Beijing in 1989,” reports The Telegraph, quoting Mr Korski who gives an excerpt from a description of the crackdown: "An old woman knelt in front of soldiers pleading for students; soldiers killed her." "A boy was seen trying to escape holding a woman with a two-year old child in a stroller, and was run over by a tank," says another. "Chinese we talk to despair about the future of their country," writes one diplomat. "The country is now being controlled by a group of vicious elderly generals and the government is run by people who will blindly follow their orders. The situation looks grim at best," says a Canadian embassy message sent to Ottawa 11 days after troops entered Tiananmen. “Diplomats correctly predicted that China's leaders would attempt to cover-up the bloodshed unleashed on their nation's capital,” says The Telegraph, quoting diplomats: "It may be years before the true story is known." "The era of darkness may be long." WikiLeaks published in September 2011 US diplomatic cables saying that a soldier in Tiananmen on Jun. 4, 1989, revealed that they were tricked into firing on unarmed demonstrators after being told that 100 of their men had presumably been killed by students. The soldiers then became so upset that when ordered to shoot into the crowd they opened fire with machine guns into the human wall before them. When the rampage was over, there were over 1,000 dead on the streets, almost all ordinary civilians. The soldiers then poured fuel over and burned the bodies, which were later flown out by helicopter. Xie Wenqing was a former chief correspondent of Chinese state media, Xinhua News Agency. He personally experienced the horrors of the June 4 Massacre. In his article, he describes that the armored vehicles claimed to have been burnt and destroyed by rioters were neatly 《神韵》2015世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/