Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue: A125-O33
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A125-O33
Release Date: April 23, 2005
发布日：2005年4月23日
Topic: Ms. XIA Ze Delivers Speech at the 61st United Nations' Human Rights Commission on behalf of the June 4 victims and families, gave detail accounts of her cousin's tragic death on June 4, 1989
标题：夏泽女士在第61届联合国人权会议上代表六四难属讲述苦难，寻求公正
Original Language Version: English (Chinese version at the end)
此号以英文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
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Ms. XIA Ze Delivers Speech at the 61st United Nations' Human Rights Commission on behalf of the June 4 victims and families
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen!
I am very glad to be given this opportunity to speak today regarding the human rights issue in China, especially as related to my family.
Although it is heart-rending to recall what happpened to my cousin, WANG Nan, 15 years ago on 4 June 1989, near Tiananmen Square, I feel I am so lucky to be able to tell people outside China what the real human rights situation in China has been. There are so many people inside China whose basic human rights including freedom of speech have been deprived.
Although WANG Nan was 14 years younger than I, we were very close to each other because my family and his family used to live just around corner from each other. He left home around 11pm on the 3rd of June with a camera, innocently hoping to take some pictures of a historical moment. He walked towards Tiananmen Square from the west of Beijing City. It was early in the morning of the 4th of June 1989. He saw People's Liberation Army soldiers opening fire. He was shocked and took out his camera. Soldiers saw this. They opened fire on him. While he was in Nanchang Street, near Tiananmen Square, a bullet entered his left forehead and came out from the back of his head. As he lay on the ground, his breathing became laboured. Blood poured from his head. Local residents saw him and panicked. They tried to approach him but were stopped by soldiers carrying guns. One soldier shouted, "He is a rebel. Don't come forward!" Becoming angry, someone questioned why, but heard soldiers' shouting: "If anyone dares to come forward, we will open fire to kill you first." They all begged the soldiers. A lady over 70 years old even knelt down begging; "He is only a young boy, a student. Please don't let him die!" Suddenly they heard the noise of an ambulance and thought that hope had arrived. But after doctors came out of the vehicle it became clear that they had not been allowed to carry out their duties. The doctors left.
A second vehicle arrived. After negotiations soldiers reported to their commander who eventually agreed to try to save the boy. But it was too late. At about 3 o'clock in the early morning, 19-years-old WANG Nan stopped breathing. Doctors issued a death certificate, which they left in the young man's pocket. They were then forced by the PLA to leave. A kind, thoughtful man who was a member of the United Casualty Team formed by some volunteers and medical staff to deal with this emergency, took his student card and house keys. From the student card the man found WANG Nan's school and traced his parents who, with the help of other family members and friends, had been searching the whole city for Nan. The man broke the awful news of their youngest son to WANG Nan's parents and described what he had witnessed.
At 7am on the morning of the 4th of June, a satellite was going to pass over. Therefore, the dead bodies had to be cleared in order to prevent the satellite taking pictures of them. Three bodies including WANG Nan's were buried in a hurry beneath a lawn outside a school near Tiananmen Square. It was a hot, wet day. After the rain the loosened soil sank down and some parts of those buried bodies stuck out. Local people started digging them up. WANG Nan's body was found. Because he was in an old army uniform, the authorities were not sure whether he was a soldier. They decided not to take his body away but the other two bodies were taken for immediate cremation because they had no ID attached. 10 days later WANG Nan's parents were called to identify the body after police had contacted his school.
His parents asked for an immediate funeral and cremation, but were refused. The reason given was that he was a rebel even though his school and local community centre issued certificates to say he was a good boy. His parents approached some Non-Governmental Organisations. With their involvement, the authorities finally, and only after long negotiations, agreed to cremate his body and hold a funeral.
The funeral was on the 26th of June 1989. His parents and family members went to a funeral hall where his body and the bodies of others were being held before cremation. The funeral hall was packed with people. The majority of them were family members or friends of students killed on or near Tiananmen Square on the 4th June 1989.
For nearly 15 years his mother, my aunt, ZHANG Xian Ling, has been actively seeking justice for her son's death. However, what she received has been monitoring, restricted movement, house arrest and arrest:
Even on the 4th of June 2004, the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, she and her husband were going to Wanan Public Cemetery but were stopped by the Chinese police. After a long negotiation, they were allowed to proceed. They arrived around 11am. No one from the other 5 victims' families was there. The original plan had been that they were to get together to mark the anniversary at the Cemetery. When asked why they were not allowed the get-together which had taken place every year since 1990, the police said that it was due to "an order from above" and that the situation was complicated this particular year because there were foreign reporters around. My aunt and her husband were to offer flowers to the deceased and read a statement on behalf of the other 5 families. Later, my aunt found out that the parents of YUAN Li and the sister of DUAN Chang Long were only allowed to go to the Cemetery separately from my aunt and her husband that morning. Whether or not the other 3 families (of GUO Chun Min, YANG Yan Sheng and YANG Ming Hu) had been allowed remains unknown.
From Thursday, 27 May to Friday 28 May 2004 my aunt was told not to leave her house by the Chinese police. No reason was given. One of the police officers who were on duty outside my aunt's flat said "We have been here since last night"..I don't want to be here but I have no choice - just carrying out orders from above." My aunt said, "Later someone told me that yesterday (Thursday) some people had been arrested and beaten while making appeals outside the High Procuratorate. I think the reason I was forbidden to go out was because they (the Chinese authorities) did not want us (Tiananmen Mothers) to go to the High Procuratorate. It was to prevent me making an appeal. If I had made an appeal, it would have drawn attention from the international community which the authorities are scared of. Actually I was planning to go to the High Procuratorate to find out the result of our lawsuit against LI Peng, which was filed 5 years ago but I was not able to do it on that day."
On 28 March 2004 my aunt was arrested together with Ms DING Zi Lin and HUANG Jin Ping by the Chinese authorities. All three are members of the "Tiananmen Mothers" movement. The reason given for their arrest was that someone outside China had sent them some T-shirts with the words "1989 - 2004" and "Tiananmen Mothers" printed on them. My aunt was told that if anyone wore those T-shirts it would be regarded as harming Chinese national security. After 6 days in detention, my aunt was released. Before she was released she was forced to write a statement.
Officials of the Chinese Xinhua News Agency used the statement and said in a report sent to overseas media that the arrested women admitted doing something illegal. After my aunt was released I managed to speak to her and she told me, "This (Xinhua News Agency report) is not true. It is a complete lie. We have done nothing illegal."
In January 2005, ZHAO Zi Yang passed away. ZHAO was the General Secretary and Prime Minister when the Tiananmen Square massacre happened. He was against the idea to open fire to the students. He was put under house arrest for 15 years. My aunt wanted to say good-bye to Mr. ZHAO and has given a negative reference for people who are allowed to enter the activities. However, this time she and her husband were monitored and followed by officers, even when they went shopping. On the day they were ordered to stay home, i.e. not allowed to go out.
Nearly 16 years have past since the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Tiananmen Mothers have been seeking justice since they lost their loved ones. Dear friends, think about this. If one of the victims was your son, daughter, wife, husband or other members of the family, wouldn't you be eager to know the truth of their deaths? But the Tiananmen Mothers have still not found it. As WANG Nan's father said with a broken heart, "The (Chinese) authority has been really unreasonable. We have lost our beloved son but they have never left us alone: they not only harassed us but also arrested my wife and even twisted the story!" Dear friends, if you were WANG Nan's father what would you feel now?
We have all known for years that the Chinese Communist Party has been making dictatorship part of the Chinese culture and using military force to carry it out. Please help the "Tiananmen Mothers", please help to expose the crimes of Chinese Communist Party committed to kill innocent people!
Thank you.
Ze XIA
April 2005
The link for photo:
Ms. XIA Ze speaks at United Nations during United Nations' human right commission in Geneva, with a display of her cousin WANG Nan who was killed on June 4, 1989 in Beijing, and WANG Nan's mother, ZHANG Xian Ling, one of the TianAnMen Mothers:
http://weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2005/newsletters2005-2/XiaZ0504UN-64.jpg
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中文版
Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue: A125-O33
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A125-O33
Release Date: April 23, 2005
发布日：2005年4月23日
Topic: Ms. XIA Ze Delivers Speech at the 61st United Nations' Human Rights Commission on behalf of the June 4 victims and families, gave detail accounts of her cousin's tragic death on June 4, 1989
标题：夏泽女士在第61届联合国人权会议上代表六四难属讲述苦难，寻求公正
Original Language Version: English (Chinese version at the end)
此号以英文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
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夏泽女士在第61届联合国人权会议上代表六四难属讲述苦难，寻求公正
女士们先生们，大家好。
很荣幸今天能有这个机会在此发言，我要以我的家庭为例，谈一谈现在中国的人权状况。
我的表弟王楠，15年前惨死在1989年的天安门6.4血案中。回忆起这一幕，无异于揭开旧的创伤，不忍回顾。我是幸运的，因为今天我能够自由的在这里给大家讲述中国人权的现状，而在现在的中国，根本就没有言论自由。中国人的很多基本人权都被剥夺了。
我家和表弟家住得很近，尽管他比我小14岁，我们两个非常亲密，关系很好。6月3日夜间11点左右，他带着照相机离开家，天真地想拍下一些历史性的照片。他从西面向天安门走去，当时已经是6月4日凌晨。这时人民解放军开枪了，惊愕之余，王楠掏出了照相机。军人发现了他，于是立刻向他开火。子弹从左额进入，后脑穿出，我的表弟就这样倒在了天安门附近的南长街上，他吃力地喘息着，鲜血从头部泊泊涌出。在场的北京市民都慌了，他们试图靠近王楠，帮助他，可是被解放军拦住了。一个军人高叫：“他是暴徒，不许过来！”愤怒的市民大声质疑，军人回答：“谁敢过来就先打死谁!”恐怖之下，市民们开始哀求了，一个年逾古稀的老太太跪地求道：“他还是个孩子啊，一个学生，不能看着他死啊！”忽然救护车呼啸而来，人们似乎感到了一线生机，可是军人不允许医生们抢救他，无奈，医护人员离开了。
第二辆救护车又来了，车上是由一些志愿者和医护人员组成的联合抢救队。经过反复协商后，解放军的一个头目终于同意可以救护这个孩子，可是一切已经太晚了。凌晨三点，19岁的王楠停止了呼吸。医生把死亡证明放到了王楠的衣袋里，然后他们被迫离开了。一个抢救队里的好心人，悄悄地保留了王楠的学生证和家里钥匙。通过学生证他联系到了王楠的学校和父母，而他的父母当时正在满北京的找他。这个好心人委婉地把这个噩耗通知了王楠的父母，并且讲述了自己的所见所闻。
六月四日早上七点，由于有一颗卫星要经过天安门的上空，所有的尸体都必须紧急处理，以防被卫星拍照。王楠的遗体和另外两具尸体被匆匆地埋在了天安门附近的一所学校外。当时天气又热又潮，雨后松土下沉，尸体渐渐显露出来。附近的居民开始挖掘，就这样，王楠的尸体找到了，另外两具无名尸被立刻火化。由于当时王楠被裹在一件旧的军服里，当局不能确定他是不是军人，10天后王楠的父母被警察叫去认领尸体。王楠的父母要求把尸体立刻火化送葬，但是被当局拒绝。理由是王楠是暴徒--- 尽管学校和社区都证明他是个好孩子。于是王楠的父母求助于一些非政府组织，由于这些组织的介入，当局终于在漫长的商讨之后同意火化尸体，举行葬礼。葬礼在89年6月26日举行，很多人给他送葬，殡仪馆了挤满了人，很多都是死在六.四大屠杀中的学生的亲人和朋友。
15年多了，王楠的母亲，我的姑妈张先玲一直四处奔走，试图为儿子讨回公道。可是她受到却是当局的监视、跟踪、软禁，甚至拘留。
2004年的六.四，即天安门大屠杀的十五周年，我的姑妈和姑父与另外五个受难者的家属们约定，共同到万安公墓去悼念亲人。可是在出发前他们被警察拦住了。后来他们终于在上午11点左右到达墓地，可是另外五家无一如期而至。当局不允许受难者的亲属们相聚，警察说这是“上边的命令”，而且“今年有外国记者到场，局面更加复杂”。我的姑妈和姑父向死者献花后，代表另外五家宣读了一篇声明。之后的我的姑妈获悉，当天袁力的父母和段昌龙的姐姐被允许单独前往扫墓，至于另外三家（死难者郭春民，杨燕声，和杨明湖）到底有没有去，至今不知。
2004年5月27日到5月28日，中国的警察不许我的姑妈离开家半步，为什么？无可奉告。一个在姑妈家外站岗的警察说：“我们昨晚就守在这里了。我也不想呆在这儿，可是没办法，执行任务呗！”姑妈说：“昨天有人去最高检察院上访了，结果被抓被打。我想当局把我关在家里就是怕我也去高检上访，如果我去了，可能会引来国际上的注意，而这是当局最害怕的。事实上我是准备那天去上访的，询问一下五年前起诉李鹏（中国国家前总理）的案子进展情况。但是我没有去成......”
2004年3月28日，我的姑妈同另外两名天安门母亲（丁子霖、黄金平）被中国当局逮捕。逮捕的理由是境外有人寄给她们印有“1989-2004”和“天安门母亲”的T恤衫。据他们称穿此T恤衫的人将被视为威胁中国国家安全。关押六天后，我姑妈被释放，释放前她被迫写了一份保证。官方的新华社对这份保证大做文章，在对外广播中声称天安门母亲承认有违法行为。事实上，当我设法联系到姑妈并询问她时，她回答：“他们是一派谎言，我们从来没有任何违法行为。"
2005年1月，赵紫阳去世了，这位六.四时期的中国共产党总书记和国家总理，由于反对屠杀学生，被当局软禁长达15年之久。我的姑妈想去吊唁赵紫阳并获得许可。可是，他们夫妇时时被盯梢，甚至逛商店时都有人跟着。赵紫阳葬礼时他们被命令呆在家里，那里也不许去。
天安门大屠杀已经过去16年了，失去儿女的天安门母亲在奔走呼喊，寻求公道。亲爱的朋友，如果您的亲人是受难者，您不想获知他们死亡的真相吗？王楠的父亲曾经伤心地说：“中国当局真的是不可理喻。我心爱的儿子死了，可是我们仍不得安宁。他们不仅骚扰我们，还逮捕了我的妻子，并且编造谎言！”亲爱的朋友，如果您是王楠的父亲，是不是也有同感呢？
众所周知，中国共产党用武力来维持它的专制统治。请您伸出援手，帮助“天安门母亲”，揭露共产党滥杀无辜的罪行！
谢谢。
夏泽
2005年4月
有关照片连接：
2005年4月，夏泽女士在联合国展示其姑母，天安门母亲之一的张先玲及张先玲在1989年6月4日凌晨被杀害的儿子王楠的照片，并讲述他们的悲惨故事:
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