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Suppression of democracy in China

To the editor,

I am quite outraged with the repression of pro-democracy supporters in China since the events of 1989. I call upon the Chinese Communist Party to officially rehabilitate the late Hu Yaobang (1915-1989). Hu Yaobang was the only high-ranking member of the Communist Party that was willing to listen to the people and was a major reformer, but his liberal reforms cost him the post of General Secretary of the party in 1987. Then on April 15, 1989, he died under mysterious circumstances. Once the death was announced, hundreds of thousands of people went to pay their respects in Tiananmen Square and ask for the basic right of freedom and democracy, but the government sent in the tanks on June 4, 1989, killing ten thousand innocent people, then sending student leaders like Wang Dan into the Laogai's which are the Chinese labor camps, and the famous astrophysicist Fang Lizhi defected to the United States.

I call on those who live in freedom to denounce the Chinese government's actions of June 4, 1989, and support the dissidents like Harry Wu, the head of the Laogai Research Foundation. Wei Jingsheng who was the organizer of the Democracy Wall Movement of 1978, Wang Dan, the student organizer of the Pro-Democracy Movement of 1989, and Fang Lizhi, the organizer of the Democracy Salons of 1988 and 1989, and the Pro Democracy Movement of 1989.

We should call for an end of the Communist regime in China.

Gregory Schneider

Political science and history senior