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Old May 15th, 2009, 03:10 PM   #1
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Former Chinese Communist Party boss, who died four years ago, has not been easy to silence. His secret memoirs, based on tape recordings that friends managed to smuggle out of the country, are set to be published in English

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When former Chinese Communist Party boss Zhao Ziyang died four years ago, the only news published in China was a two-line statement on Xinhua, the state news agency.

The Beijing authorities were afraid the death of the leader ousted for opposing the violent crushing of demonstrators in 1989 would re-open debate about the Tiananmen killings.
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