[Epoch Times, June 25, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Lin Yan compiled a report) The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday (June 24) that the CCP is erasing official errors and disgrace as it approaches the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party. The history of the party has been deleted at the same time, and even its so-called legal judgments to suppress dissent have been completely blocked.
The reporter Su Yi’an mentioned a report two years ago. June 4, 2019 was the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. The police strictly controlled any commemorative activities on the square. Three Chinese youth born in the 1990s were detained by the CCP for trying to commemorate this erased history at the scene; two Years later, the CCP also erased the historical record of youth detention, so that no one would know it.
When a reporter called the Supreme Court of the Communist Party of China and 11 other courts, they asked why these cases that were once publicly online are now gone. The staff confirmed that these cases are still in the register, but no one can explain the reasons for the non-disclosure.
One of the staff said: “If we want it to be seen, then it will be seen, if we want it not to be seen, we will remove it.”
Dong Zehua, 28, appeared in Tiananmen Square two years ago wearing a T-shirt with the date of the massacre. He also met another young man holding a yellow umbrella in support of Hong Kong, and one wanted to commemorate People who died in 1989. None of these three youths were born when June 4th occurred.
They were detained after only a short time in the square. The young man with the yellow umbrella was released shortly after being detained, but the other two were imprisoned for 6 months and 7 months, respectively, for the most common crime of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
This is a common pocket crime used by the Chinese Communist Party to suppress speech, dissent, petition, or activism.
Dong Zehua sent a copy of his detention record to the Los Angeles Times in June 2020. At that time, this record can be searched in the public archives of the court’s judgment.
A year later (June 2021), Dong Zehua’s story took another turning point, and his verdict disappeared from the public archives.
“In their eyes, it was as if our arrest had never happened. It was as if they had never done it to us,” Dong said. “They deleted the records…as if they could directly delete all the memories of Chinese people…with a wave of their hands, they would be able to cover the sky.”
A Twitter account named @SpeechFreedomCN has been tracking these cases for several months and has established a file of more than two thousand “speech crimes” cases. He found that in May, when searching for keywords such as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “national leaders” on Weibo and Twitter, the search results suddenly dropped to zero, usually thousands of results.
More than 600 cases of punishment for speech related to the Chinese Communist Party virus (COVID-19) are preserved in the archives, including the whistleblower Li Wenliang, and hundreds of lesser-known cases: for example, a blogger for simply compiling during the Wuhan blockade The CCP’s news report was imprisoned for six months; two young computer programmers Chen Mei (Chen Mei) and Cai Wei (Tai Wei) were detained by the authorities for more than a year because they kept the GitHub archive and Discussion area for censored articles in the early days of Wuhan’s lockdown. They were also charged with “picking and provoking trouble.”
As the CCP is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary, it is also suppressing all free speech and memory, and it also requires people to monitor each other and report any criticism of party history.
The latest version of the official party history no longer criticizes Mao Zedong’s chaos and killings in the 1960s and 1970s, but praises his Cultural Revolution as an anti-corruption measure, and blames the turbulence on “the correct ideological execution of him. Ineffective”.
The CCP’s purpose is to shape a triumphant historical narrative and identity, especially to inculcate young Chinese who have not experienced the turmoil of the previous decades, who are often unaware of the repressive activities that are taking place around them. Even Dong Zehua himself did not expect that on that day in 2019, he would be violently treated by the police.
“What they do is to control the thinking of every Chinese person and erase everyone’s history.” Dong said. “They want to rewrite history by themselves.”
He and others are worried that the rising generation is completely misled by the Chinese Communist government’s narrative, unable to discern the content behind the propaganda, and even inform others, even if someone finds out, there is nowhere to speak up.
Editor in charge: Ye Ziwei#
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