Posted on 02/12/2016 7:47:24 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Last October, two members of a small exile Chinese opposition political party -- Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping -- were arrested by Thai police.
Several weeks later, despite protests from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the two men were extradited to China and promptly thrown in prison.
Since the extradition of Dong, his wife, Gu Shuhua, and daughter fled Thailand for Canada. Speaking from Toronto, she says Dong's capture has devastated her small family.
"The Chinese government put pressure on my husband for so long that he ran away [from China]. Why did they still need to chase us?" she asks, visibly shaking with grief and anger.
Gu's husband was a police officer from a military family in Henan province. In the 1990s, he began publishing letters criticizing the Chinese government.
"Early on, he was aware of what the Chinese Communist Party's dictatorship was doing to the country," she says. "He worked in the security department, so he witnessed a lot of unjust events and policies that he did not agree with."
In 2000, she says her husband was sentenced to three years in prison for his political activities.
After his release, he engaged in further protests against Beijing.
In some cases, Dong broke strict taboos by demonstrating to commemorate victims of the deadly 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Any mention of the deadly events of June 4, 1989 is strictly censored in China.
After yet another arrest in 2014, the couple finally decided to move with their daughter to Bangkok to escape mounting pressure from Chinese authorities.
"I thought Thailand would be better," Gu says.
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That guy had a pair on him.
Yes he did. I was sched to report for a stint in china after commissioning for 6 months at the embassy and Beijing language inst. in Beijing. I was met in Hong Kong by the naval attaché (prior to turnover) and told basically ‘yeah no’ as events occurred while I was enroute. Great 30 days in Hong Kong as a young ensign. Terrible watching what was going on. Still have books of pics smuggled out from those days.
It’s hard for me when I know things that people I work with I can’t share that knowledge. When they come state side it’s hard to feel them out on if I can share. What I have is very graphic and painful. Most don’t want to know.
I think the normal human condition is to not acknowledge our own failings until we are cornered. Then it is too late. A situation in parallel to sin, faith, and the afterlife.
The Tiananmen Square tank protestor died a horrible death. He was arrested, taken to a Laogai prison camp, tortured and murdered.
Love that pic. . the look is so classic.
Thousands of others were slaughtered over that protest. That is why the Chinese Government is so adamant about covering it up.
The Tiananmen Square tank protestor died a horrible death. He was arrested, taken to a Laogai prison camp, tortured and murdered.”
Just think, today Zuckerberg would delete his FaceBook postings and then be toasted later that evening at Beijing university praising its leaders entirely in Mandarin,
Just think, today Zuckerberg would delete his FaceBook postings and then be toasted later that evening at Beijing university praising its leaders entirely in Mandarin,
No doubt that is literally true.
evil times are come, and all the people tweeted their smiling selfies one to another,
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