Tiananmen Square Protests 1989 Stories by Williams
Tales Of Army Discord Show Tiananmen Square In A New Light -- Andrew Jacobs and Chris Buckley, NYT
BEIJING — On a spring evening in 1989, with the student occupation of Tiananmen Square entering its second month and the Chinese leadership unnerved and divided, top army commanders were summoned to headquarters to pledge their support for the use of military force to quash the protests.
One refused.
In a stunning rebuke to his superiors, Maj. Gen. Xu Qinxian, leader of the mighty 38th Group Army, said the protests were a political problem and should be settled through negotiations, not force, according to new accounts of his actions from researchers who interviewed him.
“I’d rather be beheaded than be a criminal in the eyes of history,” he told Yang Jisheng, a historian.
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My Comment: I hope that I will still be alive when China finally has an open and free discussion on what happened in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago .... because I know that such a discussion will forever change China into something better. My prediction .... this discussion will happen on the 40th or 50th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre .... and the Chinese leader who will make it possible will be forever remembered as a great reformer and visionary.
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