As usual, many people visit the grave of former Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang to pay their respects on the annual Qingming Festival. But this year, authorities have set up a barrier to prohibit worship of the second-generation major leader of the Communist Party. Meanwhile, a camera set up directly behind the Zhao couple’s tombstone has also raised concerns.
In front of the tombstone of Zhao Ziyang and his wife, Oct. 18, 2019. Zhao Ziyang’s son Zhao Erjun (right) stands in front of the monument
Zhao Ziyang was placed under house arrest in Beijing’s Fuqiang Hutong for defending students against the Chinese Communist Party and Deng Xiaoping during the June 4 massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. For 15 years, his house was overlooked and monitored, with guards at the door and cameras at the entrance to the hutong.
The former Communist Party leader is still under surveillance cameras installed by the Chinese Communist Party after he was buried. The photos have been circulating on overseas social media for the past two days.
Twitter users angrily commented.
“The blinding surveillance camera is standing behind his tombstone, ‘detaining the dead’, I’m afraid there is no precedent for this in the history of the world!”
“In 2019, when the 100th birthday was finally buried with his wife, his descendants and the public will finally have a place to go to pay their respects at the Qingming Festival every year. However, the ‘prisoner of the state’ in the yellow spring still can not get rid of the fate of being watched. The surveillance camera behind the tombstone is a symbol of the great tragedy of modern China.”
A review of internet records shows that Zhao Ziyang was buried in October 2019, and by the anniversary of his death in February 2019, cameras had been set up behind the tombstone. At that time, the network has appeared “the world’s greatest joke” “to prevent the people to such an extent, how to talk about self-confidence? And so on.
In addition to camera surveillance, Cai Xia, a former professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, tweeted on April 5 that the authorities had banned worship at Zhao Ziyang’s tomb this year, setting up heavy barriers on the road to his grave and stopping police and plainclothes officers along the way, while Jiang Qing’s tomb was open for public worship.
The government has also banned the worship of Jiang Qing at his grave. Xi Zedong is determined to drive backwards, so he opposes such reformists as Zhao Ziyang, and is even less likely to let people commemorate Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang.”
Cai Xia also said, “It is clear who the CCP authorities fear and who they promote.”
Observers believe that the CCP has been trying to erase the June 4 massacre from history, and that Zhao Ziyang, who was directly linked to the tragedy, has become the figure the CCP is most reluctant to bring up, even as a former leader the CCP considers the most threatening to its dominance.
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