China-India border.
Last June, serious bloody clashes erupted between India and China in the Garhwan Valley on the western border between the two countries. On Feb. 19, the Communist Party’s military newspaper revealed for the first Time in a lengthy report the number of casualties: four. A pro-democracy website said that the Chinese Communist authorities had to disclose the cause of the dead and that their investigation was closing in on the facts. The newspaper also revealed more “secrets” about the deaths of soldiers that were covered up by the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese Communist Party makes public first official death toll in India-China conflict, says Xi Jinping had no choice
According to a report by the Chinese Communist Party’s military newspaper, serious bloody clashes between Chinese and Indian troops broke out in June last year in the Garhwan Valley on the Western Front. The Chinese side suffered four deaths and one serious injury in the clashes. The four men who died were Chen Hongjun, Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuo Ran. Among them, Chen Hongjun was the commander of a machine infantry battalion, and the remaining three were ordinary soldiers. The one who was seriously injured was Qi Fa Bao, the commander of a border guard regiment.
According to a Feb. 20 article on the website of the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights and Democracy Information Center, the reason the Xi Jinping administration had to go public with the dead from the India-China conflict was that the center was extremely close to finding the families. If they were the first to quote Family members overseas to confirm that there were dead in the conflict, Xi would be even more passive, so Xi had to announce the death toll as soon as possible.
It is reported that the center has made more than 2,000 phone calls over the past few months and has sought out more than 300 people to try to find relatives of the deceased, including Chen Xiangrong and other relatives. The information center in Pingnan County, Fujian Province, has sought out more than 200 people, including four people from the Pingnan County Veterans Affairs Bureau, directors of all Pingnan County’s township and township veterans service centers, as well as newly retired people from Chen Xiangrong’s unit and people who have visited Xinjiang‘s Kangxiwa Mausoleum.
The article argues that whether there are only four dead Chinese communist soldiers still needs to be investigated, and that the center is investigating.
The article also points out that Xi Jinping’s control of the military has led to increasingly tight secrecy about deaths and injuries in the military, and that Xi’s actions have caused fatal injuries to the military, because a military that keeps deaths and injuries secret is definitely not a modern military.
Exposure of Two Military Deaths That Remain Highly Classified
The HRMIC article mentions two more military deaths that are still to be uncovered.
One of them is the “1.29” air disaster that killed 12 military personnel in 2018, in which Xi Jinping visited the 20th Air Division in Guizhou on Feb. 4. The crash remains classified.
According to an article by the Human Rights Civilian Movement Information Center, on January 29, 2018, a transport-8GX4 electronic warfare aircraft of the 59th Regiment of the 20th Air Force Division crashed in Zhengchang Town, Suiyang County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, carrying 12 people, including five crew members and seven duty personnel, all 12 of whom died, including Yan Ge, Wang Yuhe, Guo Chaoqing, Tang Zhongbai, Wang Liangbo, Wei Xiangchao, Sun Xin, Shang Last night. Guo Minggang, Zhang Hongjun, Zou Cunmiao, Chen Ningfang.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Air Force had released news through its official microblog that an Air Force aircraft crashed during flight training in Guizhou that afternoon. But the article did not specify the casualties or the specific type of aircraft involved.
An informed military source told the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong that the accident killed at least 12 people. The incident has also deepened the Air Force’s concerns.
The source, who asked not to be named, noted, “There were about 12 crew members on board, and no one could escape when the plane went down …… There were no ejection seats on the plane, so the pilot and crew had to use parachute bags. But they didn’t have enough time to prepare because the plane went down so fast.”
Military blogger “Much-Addo-About-Nothing” had published the names of the dead soldiers on his personal Weibo account, suggesting that all had been killed, but the tweet was deleted.
In another case, a major casualty in the 363rd Border Guard Regiment of the South Xinjiang Military Region, a unit of Chen Xiangrong’s that was officially confirmed to have died in the India-China conflict, remains highly classified.
The Human Rights Democracy Movement Information Center article said that on the eve of the 19th Communist Party Congress in October 2017, on August 29, 2017, a highly suspicious and extremely significant explosion occurred in the 69316th regiment on Chen Xiangrong’s tombstone, and to date the military remains highly secretive about the incident, with the outside world still unaware of how many dead and wounded there were.
The center reportedly discovered this highly classified and suspicious extremely significant explosion while investigating the matter of Chen Xiangrong, and found more and more dead of the unit, six dead have been found so far, namely Deputy Chief Li Guanghui, Deputy Company Staff Officer Wang Jisheng, Deputy Squad Leader Zhu Bin, Deputy Squad Leader Pan Ke, Deputy Squad Leader Du Bing Hu, and Private Jiang Hongbo.
The article argues that the bomb blast is highly suspicious, and the South Xinjiang Military Region’s claim is that the regiment was practicing combat training against India that day, and that the bomb exploded while organizing an “unexploded bomb” search and removal. But the highly suspicious thing is that the explosion occurred on August 29, 2017, the six people were only named martyrs in December 2018 by the political department of the South Xinjiang Military Region, and the families were only allowed to bury the ashes of the dead after December 2018. If it is true that the bomb exploded while organizing the “unexploded bomb” search and elimination, the investigation can be clarified in a few days and the martyrs can be named in a month, definitely not more than a year.
The article also pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party army had a vicious incident in the past, a soldier pulled a grenade to kill himself and affected other officers and soldiers, the result of those affected officers and soldiers only after 1.5 years to be named martyrs, so the explosion occurred at the most sensitive political moment on the eve of the 19th National Congress is highly suspicious.
Regime stability first military death data to be approved by Xi Jinping
The Chinese Communist Party also has hard and fast rules for military casualties. The South China Morning Post previously cited sources within the CCP military as saying that Beijing is “very sensitive” to military casualties and that all figures must be approved by Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping.
In response, current affairs commentator Zheng Zhongyuan analyzed that “very sensitive” means confidential. And the top leader must be the gatekeeper for approval, so these secrets must be related to the stability of the Communist regime. From the information exposed in the past, it is true that there are issues that cannot be seen.
Watch China has revealed a top-secret “2019 list of dead Chinese Communist Party military personnel”. The list includes the mysterious death of Huang Huilun, a key figure in the 81st Army Air Defense Brigade in the Central War Zone who was in charge of air defense in Zhongnanhai, but no official information has ever been released. This top-secret list of Huang Huilun’s death information only reads, “July 22, 2019, unfortunately died.” The other soldiers on the list have also never been officially released with death information, and are only scattered in some local official media for indirect reports.
Zheng Zhongyuan believes that some of the CCP’s so-called secrets may not actually be secrets, and that it dares not disclose them because it has a perverse mindset of maintaining stability. The experience and lessons learned from the fear of collapse that the CCP has accumulated since the founding of the Party and then maintaining power after the establishment of the government have brought it to the point where its nerves are tense and it is on the brink of an enemy at the slightest movement of the wind. In China, any event is considered political, and everything can become “secret” for fear of destabilizing the regime. This should be the reason why the Chinese Communist Party refused to confirm the number of dead and wounded soldiers after this clash on the Sino-Indian border amidst the uncomfortable international spectacle.
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