Jiang Zemin’s Bitter Legacy

Jiang Zemin, now reportedly either dead or brain dead, in 1999 as top leader of the Chinese Communist Party unleashed the most systematic campaign of human rights abuses seen in modern China: the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice.
Jiang Zemin’s Bitter Legacy
Matthew Robertson
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/BannersOnTiananmen.jpg" alt="ENDING PERSECUTION: Falun Gong practitioners hold banners on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 2, 2001. For the first few years of the persecution, practitioners went to the square asking the Communist Party to reverse itself. (Courtesy of Minghui.net)" title="ENDING PERSECUTION: Falun Gong practitioners hold banners on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 2, 2001. For the first few years of the persecution, practitioners went to the square asking the Communist Party to reverse itself. (Courtesy of Minghui.net)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-1800987"/></a>
ENDING PERSECUTION: Falun Gong practitioners hold banners on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 2, 2001. For the first few years of the persecution, practitioners went to the square asking the Communist Party to reverse itself. (Courtesy of Minghui.net)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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