From: doc@ecepck.ece.arizona.edu.local (doc)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: What made 6.4 a real tragedy?
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:26:43 GMT



In article <9204161956.AA18732@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, I990002@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU (Bao Tong) writes:
|> This e-mail is posted originally on china-net.
|> 
|> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
|> ......
|> 
|>    Another thing which made 6.4 a real tragedy is the "Big Escaping".
|> When the people heard that most of the D-fighters escaped to US or hided
|> in US Embassy, how will you expect them to respond? I did not take a poll
|> so I can't make a conclusion. But the responses of those I know were
|> complicated. On one hand, they were glad that the authority wouldn't be
|> able to posecute them. On the other hand, they felt disgusting. Why in hell
|> should they flee their country like rabbits? Would CCP kill them? People


      As I can remember, the responses to the "Big Escaping" were overwhelming-
ly positive. Most people in China hope they can escape. When the news of 
escape came, people cheered.

      Why they run? If someone carries a gun and runs after you, it is
quite nature that you run. Will CCP kill them? At that time, it seems
yes -- for the first time in CCP's history, all TV and Radio stations
broadcast the "most wanted" news, and labeled all people participated
demonstration as gansters. In Beijing, Shanghai, and some other cities
people were quickly sentenced to death. 

|> naturally would compare them with Mandela, Warlesa, and Aquino (spell right?).
|> If those D-fighters were really commited to their noble cause, they should
|> have the willingness to suffer. And only through such personal suffering
|> will people be aroused and encouraged to fight for democracy. I still
|> remember right before the first anniversary of 6.4, we got some letters from
|> US, urging us to take some action to protest the evil CCP. We trash them
|> immediately without second thought. Suppose you are in such a situation:
|> you are going to graduate and desire to study abroad, but the road is
|> blocked by the new regulation demanding you to serve the country 5 years, and
|> moreover, you have to go to grass-root unit and stay for one year; at the
|> same time, from VOA, you learned that the lucky folks abroad who kept urging
|> you to act have got Bush's special offer, how will you respond to the
|> campaign? How will you think about the D-fighters? Those who stayed suffered


     Not everyone has the same narrow mind as the author. 

|> while those who fled benefited from the D-movement. Is it ridiculous?
|> The result of this is that people became numb and suspective to any D-campaign.
|> They simply don't trust any political stuff.
|> 


     Question is whether the author judges the democracy movement by
whether the author can go to study aboard.

|> 
|>    Of course, 6.4 also showed how harshly a communist government may crack
|> down any anti-government movement. CCP lost almost all of its credits.
|> People won't trust it as before. But even CCP knew it's urgent
|> to get rehabilitation from the loss and tried hard by speeding up
|> economic development. Surprisingly, the D-fighters here in US are still
|> confining themselves in their elite world and seeking dirts from endless
|> power struggles. They still stick to such a slogan: poor democracy is better
|> than wealthy communism. With such a principle, I have doubt if they can do
|> anything better than CCP did.
|> 

     We never heard such slogan.

     Anyone simply doing nothing will do better job than CCP.

|> 
|>    Where is the hope of China? Only those who are still in China, I believe.


     And those who are going to go back, those are doing something now
( in or out of China) helping building the future.