Photos of the tombstones of Chinese soldiers killed in the Sino-Indian conflict are circulated on mainland microblogs on Aug. 27, 2020. (Web Photo)
On March 8, a phone recording surfaced online of a retired senior colonel being warned by community cadres that he was “not allowed to pay condolences to the families of martyrs in the India-China conflict. The rhetoric of the community cadre in the recording ignited netizens’ voices!
In the recording, one of the conversants identified himself as a community cadre (said to be the secretary) of Dongfeng Road Street Office (Zhengzhou City, Henan Province), while the other was a retired senior colonel with 32 years of military service, who was the subject of the call to “maintain stability”. After the recording of the phone call came to light, the attention continued to heat up. Later in the day, articles about the news “disappeared” from the Chinese web.
(Courtesy of those in the know)
On March 8, a recording of a phone call to maintain stability was heavily reposted online by netizens. (Courtesy of those in the know)
On February 19, 2021, after eight months, the Chinese Communist Party announced for the first Time the casualties of Chinese soldiers in the June 2020 India-China conflict, acknowledging only four dead and one seriously injured. Two of the four who died were from Henan Province.
In a phone recording, the community cadre asked the retired major, “Beijing is holding two sessions, and the feedback back from this side (inside the city) is that Wang Yuzhong is inside the (WeChat) group, inciting retired soldiers to pay condolences to the homes of the martyrs of Henan origin who died in the India-China conflict. Your side is a positive response?”
It is understood that the community cadres in the phone call mentioned the retired soldiers Wang Yuzhong, that is, the person characterized as “incitement”, is a veteran of more than twenty years of military service, once by the Wuhan Military Region, Jinan Military Region has been commended many times.
The retired colonel was warned by the community cadres, “Now it is not allowed, now the policy is such. I’m just informing you not to respond to this thing.”
The community cadre also asked the retired major on the phone, “Do you know this man? Do you know the Family of the man who died in Henan? If you don’t know him what are you going to do to condole with him?”
This sentence and in 2006 caused great controversy “Peng Yu case” before the judge Wang Hao that “not you touch, why do you want to help?” There is a similar effect.
The retired major asked, “Is it wrong to condole with the families of the martyrs of the Sino-Indian conflict?” “Information screening, it’s not a bad thing! What’s the reason? What is the reason? Why is it not allowed? What’s the basis?”
Community cadres, in turn, stressed on the phone, “Not allowed now, the policy does not allow. This is the feedback from the city, because the public security will be on you, including online information is there to monitor. Sensitive information is there to screen.”
“We have no basis! There is no reason. Just to talk to you and inform you. If you want to reflect the problem, you have to (go through) reasonable channels.” Community cadres also informed the retired major that he was forbidden to go to Beijing.
On March 1, the Chinese Communist Party issued another draconian law that sentences people to prison for “defaming martyrs.
U.S.-based independent scholar Wu Jolai told the Epoch Times, “It is easy to gather information from the people, which places, which villages, which families’ children died, and if people post this information online, it will be easy for people to know how many people died.”
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