World News | Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and his tainted Tibetan heritage: Report

Beijing [China]Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who died last month of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai on Dec. 8, was cremated in Beijing on Monday.

Jiang Zemin, 96, is one of the few leaders to hold top positions such as general secretary of the Communist Party of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission and state president.

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According to Xinhua News Agency, his death was announced in a letter addressed to the whole party, the army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country.

According to the letter, Comrade Jiang Zemin is “an outstanding leader recognized by the whole party, the whole army and the people of all nationalities, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionist, statesman, military strategist and diplomat”.

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Much has been said about the progressive steps taken under his leadership to move the Chinese economy in a positive direction. The Tibetan party secretary said his community was “deeply grieved because we have a deep memory of him.”

However, according to the Tibetan Rights Collective, a Delhi-based advocacy group, there is no doubt that Jiang Zemin is leaving behind a tainted Tibetan legacy — a stench of crimes against humanity and authoritarianism against Tibetans, which in the 1950s occupied Tibet.

Tibetans and Uyghurs recall Jiang Zemin’s rule as the beginning of a tightening of already repressive policies that Xi has today tightened to dystopian levels, Tibetan rights groups said. “

“China has strengthened its policy towards Tibet during his tenure, which was reflected in the ‘Third Tibet Work Symposium’ held in Beijing in 1994, which announced a policy to integrate Tibet into China’s economic structure,” the report added.

According to a report published by the International Campaign for Tibet following Jiang’s death, negotiations to resolve the Tibetan-Chinese conflict resumed during Jiang’s tenure.

The Washington-based group said in its report that Jiang Zemin’s government detained the then six-year-old boy Panchen Lama in 1995 and chose their own boy to be the Panchen Lama. To this day, his whereabouts remain unknown. (Arnie)

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