Deng ordered Tiananmen crackdown, Li Peng says

[dArKeR]

AFP , HONG KONG
Thursday, Aug 19, 2004,Page 5

China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping (???) "resolutely backed" the Tiananmen Square Massacre 15 years ago, former premier Li Peng (??) said in a rare commentary on the bloody incident he has long been blamed for.

Li was premier when Chinese soldiers were ordered into Tiananmen Square in Beijing to quell a month-long rally by students demanding more democracy in communist China. He and Deng have been the target of blame for the resulting massacre on June 4 and June 5, 1989.

But in an article in the Communist Party magazine Seeking Truth cited widely by Hong Kong media yesterday, Li said it was Deng who made the decision to send in the troops.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/08/19/2003199330

Bush style slaughter in China by Republican thinking Communists.
http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/tiananmen.html

[jeff30997]

1. Good move, Li. Blame it on a dead guy.

[WMliberal]

2. "resolutely backed"?????????

sounds a little too much in the passive voice for me. deng could have resolutely backed a lot. it still doesn't mean Li didn't orchestrate and carry out the massacre.
i'm sure that's just lost in translation.