[ExI] The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 17/12/2025 16:20, John K Clark wrote:
> Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
>
> The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square
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> In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/asia/china-general-tiananmen-square.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.Z6O1.qwYoDu1oq2Og&smid=em-share <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/asia/china-general-tiananmen-square.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.Z6O1.qwYoDu1oq2Og&smid=em-share>

For those who, like myself, can't access these articles (nytimes.com 
refuses to work with some combination of ad-blockers, scripting control 
and cookie control, I'm not going to spend the time required to find out 
exactly what), there's a wikipedia article that explains what happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Qinxian

I find this encouraging. It means that there are people, even in the 
higher ranks of the CCP, that have a conscience, and some of them are 
willing to act on it.

-- 
Ben