(EFE). -The Chinese state television CCTV manipulated some archival footage for former Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who defended dialogue with the protesters instead of repressing Tiananmen not appear last Saturday in a historical documentary.
The documentary broadcast by CCTV was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Hu Yaobang, who was secretary General PC from 1982 to 1987, then was replaced by Zhao (deleted in the documentary), says today the South China Morning Post (SCMP), an independent publication of Hong Kong.
Hu’s death in 1989, who had a liberalizing reformist profile and was removed for it- marked the beginning of the protests in Tiananmen Square, which went from being a tribute to this leading to demonstrations against corruption and for more freedoms, among other demands.
In the documentary aired on public television a copy of the official People’s Daily 1982 year when Hu took office showed as secretary general, and in which the original photograph which appeared Zhao Ziyang was manipulated so that instead appeared the face of another leader minor party.
According to the SCMP, the Chinese government attempts to recover the popular figure of Hu, adding legitimacy to the current reforms and the fight against corruption, while the figure Zhao (who succeeded him in office and was erased in the documentary) is banned in the country .
Zhao Ziyang defended dialogue with students against sectors of the party that supported the direct repression, and even made a speech on the square in which showed their understanding with the demands of the protestors
Zhao Ziyang was a strong ally of Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who he succeeded Mao Tse-tung and opened the economy and the country abroad, and was critical with Maoism in favor of one based on economic liberalization and opening up policy.
During the Tiananmen protests, he defended dialogue with students against sectors of the party that supported the direct repression, and even made a speech in the same square in which showed their understanding with the demands of the demonstrators but asked them to slay with the long strike that took place.
Finally, proponents of repression sectors persuaded the leader Deng Xiaoping -which led to a slaughter of students-and Zhao was purged and confined during its next 15 years of life to live under house arrest.
During this time, he made several recordings in which he explained his political views-a commitment to Western parliamentary democracy to end economic inequality and corruption and infighting revealed that the Communist Party had during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The memoirs were published in 2009 under the title Prisoner of the State -several friends Zhao took the recordings of the country in secret and are censored in China, but can be purchased in Hong Kong.
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