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'Closing The Book' On Tiananmen: Frankfurt
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World Press Review, March 1991
China: 'Closing the Book' on Tiananmen--Frankfurt
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<p>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (conservative)
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<p> There is an evil chess move behind the allegedly mild
sentences for leaders of the 1989 Chinese student movement.
According to the [official] announcement, the defendants were
punished lightly because they had done a valuable service to the
security services. Everybody knows what that means: They either
denounced others while in prison or provided the police with
incriminating evidence. It cannot be proved whether that is
true, and if it is, we will probably never know under what
circumstances they were "persuaded' to do so...But the report
about collaboration with the police, true or not, will have the
consequences that no one will ever again trust those leaders,
and everyone will avoid contact with them. In effect, the
Chinese authorities have made sure that the leaders of the 1989
movement will never lead another one.
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