Why ZZY? Democracy Hardcore.

Posted byYan Sham-ShackletonPosted inAwaiting a Democratic HK

ZZY. Democracy Hardcore

Why Zhao Ziyang and not Wang Dan? Why Zhao Ziyang and not Cheung Mao? Why Zhao Ziyang and not any other democratic activists?

Because he is the most powerful man to fall because of the democratic movement in China. Because he cried for the students who will die. Because he spent 15 years in house arrest. Because he is the man the CCP most wants to hide.

Premier Zhao (Light Blue)

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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