...say we have to continue to suck up to the
barbaric regime in Communist China...
Zhao Ziyang disagrees...
Just weeks before the 20th anniversary of the bloody Chinese government crackdown on demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, the leader ousted for opposing the crackdown has broken his silence, with a posthumous memoir that condemns the 1989 killings as a "tragedy."
In 1989, Zhao Ziyang was the highest-ranking leader in the country - the chief of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
And just what was it that turned Zhao's head around?
Zhao says on the night of June 3, while sitting in the courtyard with his family, he heard what he described as intense gunfire. He said "a tragedy to shock the world had not been averted, and was happening after all."
The gunfire he heard was government troops firing on protesters around Tiananmen Square, actually in the early hours of June 4.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, were killed.
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