Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong
(All News Posts Place Under this Intro.)
This is Glutter’s 1000th Post.
Again, I have turned part of my site black, this time not to protest
but to mourn. I am mourning a man, but also a symbol. A man who is a
symbol of a more open, accepting, reformist China.
In places where people can not speak their minds without
persecution, a lot of weight is attached to the subtext. The meaning
behind an act is
all the more powerful. When his daughter said “He is free at last.” She
was saying something about his hopes, her hopes and mine as well.
Glutter Mourns the death of Zhao Zi Yang.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Friends of the family said the service would take place at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing, where many senior party veterans are buried. It is China’s version of Arlington National Cemetery. A date for the service was not announced.
The authorities also indicated that they are prepared to allow Bao Tong, Mr. Zhao’s closest aide and the most senior Chinese official jailed in connection with the 1989 student demonstrations, to attend the funeral service, a member of Mr. Bao’s family said.
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