On April 16, a red-headed document titled “Office of the Leading Group of Veterans’ Affairs of the CPC Luannzhou Municipal Committee” was widely circulated in the mainland WeChat circle of friends. The document directly quotes Li Jianzhong, secretary of the Luanszhou Municipal Party Committee, as saying, “To prevent petitions from going to Beijing unnoticed, it is necessary to implement the responsibility of stabilizing and controlling people.
The red-headed document was exposed online and was reported by several mainland media outlets. According to sources, the public WeChat number that reported the incident were forced to delete the article by the Internet Information Office.
The censored text reads, “Yesterday it was the ‘strong pillar’ of state power, today it has become the ‘object of stability maintenance’? Yesterday it was the ‘Great Iron Wall’ that defended the people, but today it has become an ‘uncertainty’? Yesterday it was the ‘loveliest people’, today how did it become the ‘unruly people’?”
Red-headed document on the net for petitioning veterans to maintain stability (provided by the interviewee)
The Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee’s speech is quoted in direct bold letters, and the lover: “advanced black”
The informant told the Epoch Times, “A staff member from Hebei’s Internet Information Office directly approached the self-publisher of the Yunnan debut and asked to delete the piece. Sadly, the staff member himself is a veteran, a company cadre who changed his career in ’92.”
The source said, “The Chinese Communist government would rather spend high amounts of money on ‘stability maintenance’ than give veterans a solution to their petitions.”
“The way the red-headed document was formed shows that it was most likely a ‘high-ranking black’, ‘dog-eat-dog’, insider-planned and actively leaked out.” The informant said, “Li Jianzhong was only transferred to Luanshi City Party Secretary last year, the document will be Li Jianzhong’s original words in bold letters directly quoted, which is rare, now we directives are directly dictated, rarely left directly in writing.”
On April 19, the reporter called the Veterans Affairs Bureau of Luanzhou City to inquire whether the other party understood the incident of the leaked red-headed document. The staff member who answered, after learning the reporter’s identity and the reason for the call, put the reporter on hold for a while before returning to the phone and saying, “What we know is untrue, and is being disposed of according to the law, no other news.”
Veterans complained about the lack of access to continue to cause extreme events
In recent years, as veterans are treated unfairly, the petition is fruitless, no door to complain, leading to extreme incidents.
On March 22 this year, five people were killed in an explosion in Mingjing Village, Hualong Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. According to press reports, the suspect, Hu Mou (who died on the spot), was a veteran who had participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and because he was dissatisfied with the village chief’s embezzlement of the compensation money he received from his family’s demolition of illegal structures last year and other injustices, he decided to use a homemade detonator and die with the village chief.
In October 2016, nearly 10,000 veterans from more than a dozen provinces and cities gathered in Beijing to petition and besiege the military commission’s 81st building, demanding a solution to the problem of unfair treatment after discharge, forcing authorities to establish a Ministry of Veterans Affairs.
On July 25, 2018, hundreds of veterans in Baoding, Hebei Province, gathered on the sidewalk in front of the city government to defend their rights. They carried a banner saying “Give me back my personal freedom, it’s not a crime to be a soldier, it’s justified to defend my rights!” They demanded that the Chinese government guarantee the proper resettlement of military personnel after they leave active duty in accordance with the Military Service Law, and that the government release the illegally detained petitioning veterans and guarantee the personal freedom of veterans and their legal rights to defend their rights.
From September 6 to 8, 2020, more than three hundred veterans of the Third Class War in Hunan Province went to the provincial government to demand the implementation of the Military Service Law, and nearly one hundred of them were arrested into the Changsha City Public Security Bureau.
The petitioning veterans revealed that “veterans are collectively petitioning for their rights because they cannot get the most basic protection for their lives, pensions and medical treatment, but their demands are being shelved and delayed and ignored.” This is what has led to the intensification of the veterans’ rights defense movement.
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s official media, there are 57 million veterans in China, and the number is increasing by hundreds of thousands every year. The issue of employment placement for veterans has become a trigger for a number of group incidents in China.
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