The Chinese government has denounced the documents as fake, and launched a sweeping investigation to identify and punish those responsible. Since the publication, Zhang Liang has remained in hiding period. For this interview, refused to reveal his real name and insisted that his face be disguised on screen. In an extended conversation, Zhang tells Chinoy, who covered the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown for CNN, of his reasons for compiling the material and smuggling it to the West, at great personal risk, in order to make it public.
China has many people of conscience.
During the interview, Zhang responds to questions about the authenticity of the documents, details what new information they reveal about the 1989 events, and analyses the impact of their release on the Chinese political scene. The publication of this collection of previously secret Communist Party documents has brought still-unresolved controversies over the incident to the surface in China. The material, including minutes of Politburo meetings, reports from Chinese intelligence agencies, and even recordings of the phone conversations of top leaders, depicts how China s rulers ordered the military crackdown in Beijing on June 3 to 4, 1989.