Chen Shui-bian: Deng Xiaoping ordered Tiananmen Square crackdown
Former President Chen Shui-bian posted on Facebook that he read the book "Prisoner of the State - The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang" in prison, which clearly indicated that the then-Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping ordered the military crackdown on students in front of Tiananmen Square during the 1989 "June Fourth Tiananmen Incident."
The "June Fourth Tiananmen Incident" in China in 1989 has passed for 37 years. Former President Chen Shui-bian said on Facebook today that the truth of the Tiananmen Square incident that Beijing dares not face is that Deng Xiaoping mobilized the army to suppress the students in Tiananmen.
Chen Shui-bian recalled that he read a book called "Prisoner of the State - The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang" in prison at the time, which could provide an answer. The cover specifically quoted Zhao Ziyang's words: "I must be responsible to history, and I will never be the General Secretary who suppresses students."
Chen Shui-bian stated that the historical truth of the Tiananmen Square incident is as follows: On the afternoon of May 17, 1989, Deng Xiaoping, the then-paramount leader of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, held a Standing Committee meeting at his home. Deng Xiaoping disregarded General Secretary Zhao Ziyang's proposal to acknowledge the students' actions in front of Tiananmen as a patriotic movement, and still decided to mobilize the army to enter Beijing and implement martial law. Zhao Ziyang insisted on not being the General Secretary who used the army to suppress students.
Former President Chen said that declassified secret files from the White House in the United States show that a total of 10,454 people were brutally massacred in the "June Fourth Tiananmen Incident," and Deng Xiaoping is the mastermind of China's "June Fourth Incident." Just as our country's Chiang Kai-shek was the mastermind of the "February 28 Incident," the perpetrators who ordered the armed crackdown do not need to be held accountable.
