Military veterans demonstrated in Beijing on May 20; over 1000 ex-servicemen gathered before the General Political Department Bureau for Letters and Calls. Veterans from Chengdu, Lanzhou, Jinan, Beijing, Guangzhou Military Regions came to petition for their pensions and promised veterans'employment. (Human Rights Campaign in China)
Retired Military Officers, Broke and Desperate, Protest in Beijing -- Epoch Times
Around a thousand retired military officers from all over China gathered in Beijing’s heat on May 20, appealing to the regime for their pensions and veterans’ employment; they were soon rounded up and thrown into a makeshift “black jail,” which operates outside the law, for the night.
Protests by retired military officers are an embarrassment for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), so groups are monitored strictly in an effort to prevent mass petitions or demands for their rights. However, they continue to organize demonstrations despite official efforts to silence them.
Veteran officers from Chengdu, Lanzhou, Jinan, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenyang, protested in front of the Central Military Commission General Political Department, calling attention to the appalling living conditions caused by failed veterans’ policies.
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My Comment: I am surprised by this report. These Chinese military officers would also be members of the Communist party .... and to be treated like this by their own government and Party is unprecedented. I guess China is changing even more quickly than I thought, and I am one who has been there at leas at 30 times since the mid 1980s .... including even living there in 1988-1989.
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