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One of the exiled leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989got the cold shoulder from the Chinese embassy in Washington onFriday when he tried to turn himself in to return home. Wu'er Kaixi, 44, who now lives in Taiwan, wants to see his frailand aging parents in Urumqi, northwest China, as well as ignited adialogue on reform with China's communist leadership -- even if itmeans standing trial. But when he went to the bunker-like Chinese embassy in the UScapital, the dissident activist found the smoked-glass doorslocked, and no one responded when he rang the doorbell and dialedan off-hours telephone number. Telephone calls into the embassy by an AFP reporter at the scenealso went unanswered. "Well, I guess this is as close as I can get to Chinese soil," saidWu'er, who last tried to surrender at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo,where Japanese police arrested him for trespassing and held him fortwo days. "If I want to go home, what does it take? It's office hours. I callthen and ring the bell, but no one comes," he said, adding that hewould next take his case to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Yang Jianli, the president of Washington-based group Initiativesfor China who was on hand to support Wu'er at the embassy, said"the Chinese government is doing everything it can to erase thememory of Tiananmen Square." Hundreds, perhaps thousands, died when the Chinese government sentin tanks and soldiers to clear the square in central Beijing on thenight of June 3-4, 1989, and end six weeks of unprecedentedpro-democracy protests. Wu'er, then a student at Beijing Normal University, was amongseveral Tiananmen leaders and hunger strikers who escaped to theUnited States in the weeks after the crackdown. An official Chinese Communist Party verdict after the Tiananmenprotests branded the movement a "counter-revolutionary rebellion,"although the wording has since been softened. Asked as an exile of 23 years what advice he would give blindChinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest lastmonth and plans to come to the United States, Wu'er suggestedpatience. Chen, who China pledged Thursday would get a passport within 15days in order to leave the country, "is a hero," Wu'er said."Everybody in the world should embrace him. "But he needs to take this good time (in the United States) to takea good rest" before joining other exiles in "a group effort.. ateam effort" to bring about change in China, Wu'er added. Wu'er was among six Tiananmen activists in exile who last monthsent a letter to Beijing saying they had been deprived of theirright to return to their homeland and denied Chinese traveldocuments abroad. Their letter coincided with the death of dissident astrophysicistFang Lizhi in the United States at the age of 76. Fang sympathizedwith the Tiananmen protests, but refrained from taking a leadingrole in them. Wu'er, who studied at Harvard University but failed to graduate, isnow a political commentator in Taiwan. His gesture on Friday drewonly a handful of reporters and a single uniformed US SecretService diplomatic security officer. He said he was "extremely concerned" about the health of hisfather, 76, and mother, 70, with whom he remains in contact via theInternet. Wu'er also has an older brother who is caring for theirparents. "They're no longer young," Wu'er said of his parents, and Beijingsteadfastly refuses to let them travel outside of China to see him."Inhumane is an understatement... It's barbaric.". The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Glass Wall Fittings , Stainless Steel U Channel, and more. For more , please visit Stainless Steel Square Bar today!
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