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Explosive first hand\u00a0account of abduction ordeal exposes the gangster methods of China\u2019s regime<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)<\/p>\n

Appearing at a Hong Kong press conference more than eight months after his abduction and disappearance at the hands of Chinese security personnel, bookseller Lam Wing-kee\u2019s harrowing account has produced a wave of shock and anger in society.<\/p>\n

Late last year, five booksellers from Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong, disappeared one after the other under mysterious circumstances. Months later, the Chinese authorities admitted the men (Lee Bo, Liu Bo, Cheung Jiping, Gui Minhai and Lam Wing-kee) were in detention on the mainland, but erected a massive smokescreen to obscure\u00a0how and why the five came to be there. Soon afterwards they were all paraded on national television making humiliating \u2018confessions\u2019. Most of the five have since been allowed to return to Hong Kong for short\u00a0visits escorted by shadowy \u2018friends\u2019, believed to be\u00a0mainland security officials. Until now, all of those released have stuck to the story that they were not abducted but\u00a0have instead been helping the Chinese authorities \u2018voluntarily\u2019 \u2013 a story that almost nobody believes.<\/p>\n

While many people were already convinced the men had been illegally abducted, Lam\u2019s statement on Thursday, before the world\u2019s press corps, has had the effect of bomb exploding upon the already tense political atmosphere of Hong Kong. The dictatorship\u2019s smokescreen has collapsed! This case touches on the rawest of nerves as ordinary people in Hong Kong fear that the Chinese dictatorship is extending its political control over the city and dismantling the partial democratic rights it\u00a0enjoys under the so-called \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 formula.<\/p>\n

Anger and disgust against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments is surging as a\u00a0result of this case. Lam\u2019s public unmasking of the dictatorship\u2019s gangster methods has to some extent reanimated the city\u2019s pro-democracy movement, which has been in a state of shell shock since the 2014 struggle for universal suffrage ended in stalemate. A demonstration just two days after Lam\u2019s reappearance, on Saturday 18 June, drew\u00a0around 6,000 protesters chanting, \u201cWe are all Lam Wing-kee\u201d and\u00a0\u201cRelease the five booksellers!\u201d<\/p>\n

Political\u00a0<\/strong>fallout<\/b><\/p>\n

As Amnesty International\u2019s director in Hong Kong, Mabel Au, put it, \u201cLam Wing-kee has blown apart the Chinese authorities\u2019 story.\u201d Every public statement made by the Chinese government and its foreign ministry in connection with this affair over the course of eight months is shown to be a lie.<\/p>\n

Lam\u2019s revelations represent a major political embarrassment for the Chinese regime, which of course has imposed a total media blackout inside China.\u00a0This reveals the regime\u2019s fragility \u2013 despite its public projection of \u2018strength\u2019 \u2013 as it increasingly strives for an ultimately unsustainable level of political control and repression in fear of mass unrest. Beijing\u2019s attempt to silence and make an example of the five booksellers had the aim\u00a0of\u00a0closing down the booming business in political-scandal books published openly and legally in Hong Kong, but banned in China. The books have been\u00a0extremely popular with the roughly 45 million mainland Chinese tourists visiting the city every year. Like many other dictatorships in history, the regime displays\u00a0an overbelief in the effectiveness of police terror. This has now blown up in its face.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the Hong Kong Government and police force are deeply compromised by this affair, with widespread suspicions\u00a0they have acted in concert with the mainland\u2019s national\u00a0security apparatus. The unpopular Chief Executive, Leung Chun-ying, is exposed once again as a puppet of the Chinese dictatorship who cannot \u201cprotect his own citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n

The case of the five, \u201c… is even worse than the failure to attain universal suffrage and Beijing\u2019s interpretation of the Basic Law in 1999,\u201d said Professor Lau Siu-kai, head of a pro-government think tank, referring to two major issues on which Beijing has aroused mass anger in Hong Kong in the past. Lau feared the incident would damage the pro-establishment camp in the upcoming legislative elections, predicting they could lose some seats.<\/p>\n

At his press conference, Lam also expressed his distrust of the Hong Kong police, pointing to their role in \u201ctear gassing unarmed students\u201d in 2014. In fact, covert operations by mainland security operatives in Hong Kong is not new, despite this being explicitly forbidden under the \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 rulebook.<\/p>\n

\"Lam
Lam Wing-kee at his press conference on 16 June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Globalisation\u2019 of repression<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lam\u2019s account of his detention reveals a series of violations of the Chinese dictatorship\u2019s own laws, showing that to hunt down dissidents and critics it is increasingly resorting to extrajudicial methods and televised frame-ups. As chinaworker.info<\/strong><\/a> pointed out in our initial reports on the case of the five, this also \u201cmarks the \u2018globalisation\u2019 of Xi Jinping\u2019s repression with little regard to how overseas governments may react.\u201d The abduction last October of Lam\u2019s colleague, Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, while on holiday in Thailand is a clear example of this.<\/p>\n

The alleged \u2018crime\u2019 of Lam and the other\u00a0four abductees, of publishing and distributing books that are banned in China, is not a crime in Hong Kong. With the seizure of Gui, and also of Lee Bo, the Chinese state crossed a line, copying the \u2018extraordinary renditions\u2019 practised by the US and its Central Intelligence Agency as part of its \u2018war on terror\u2019. Lee Bo\u2019s story, surely forced upon him under duress, that he went to China \u2018voluntarily\u2019, has now been laid to rest by Lam\u2019s account. Neither Lee Bo nor his captors have been able to explain how he entered China from Hong Kong without passing through any of its immigration points.<\/p>\n

Lam told how he was arrested in Shenzhen in October, taken to the eastern city of Ningbo and held for months in solitary confinement and under 24-hour supervision to prevent him from committing suicide. He was forced to sign a waiver to forego his\u00a0right, under Chinese law, to a lawyer and contact with his family. Even his toothbrush was tied to a string held by a guard \u2013 to prevent him from using it to hurt himself. In February, he was forced to make a scripted (literally) \u2018confession\u2019 on television: \u201cI acted in front of the camera \u2013 I needed to. There was a director. I had to recite the script,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His captors allowed him to return to Hong Kong last week ostensibly to collect a computer hard disk containing details of the book company\u2019s clients. Instead of doing so, Lam decided to defy his captors and go public about his ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The disappearances] can happen to you too for sure. If we don\u2019t speak up, if I don\u2019t speak up being the least of the five, then there is no hope for Hong Kong,\u201d he told the press conference. There are well-founded fears for Lam\u2019s safety and we would hope he and his supporters are taking stringent measures to protect him.<\/p>\n

Lam\u2019s account conforms with\u00a0the accounts of other victims of state repression in China. Contributors to chinaworker.info<\/strong> and sympathisers of the CWI in China have revealed similar experiences, such as when arrested young socialist Zhang Shujie was allowed by his police minders to visit Hong Kong in 2012, in order \u2013 they believed \u2013 to attend a conference of left-wing activists organised by Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) in order to spy on the participants. Instead of following this plan, Zhang escaped to Europe with the help of Socialist Action and CWI members internationally.<\/p>\n

Another chilling aspect of Lam\u2019s revelations is that he was not detained by national security, public security, police or military personnel but by the \u201ccentral investigation team\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a shadowy unit accountable only to the leadership of the ruling \u2018Communist\u2019 Party (CCP), rather than an official state organ. This agency originated during the 1960s \u2018Cultural Revolution\u2019 when it\u00a0was used to purge senior party figures. Later it was abolished, but has since been revived and plays a key role in President Xi Jinping\u2019s purge of\u00a0top-level opponents.<\/p>\n

\"6,000
6,000 marched in support of Lam Wing-kee on 18 June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Localists at a loss<\/strong><\/p>\n

This affair also presents a political dilemma\u00a0for Hong Kong\u2019s right-wing localist movement, which advocates a vaguely defined independence from China. As recently as 4 June, the anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre, the localists boycotted the mass commemoration in order to distance themselves from any support for the democracy struggle in China. This they argue has no relevance\u00a0to the struggle in Hong Kong. Localist groups\u00a0are also boycotting the latest protests in support of Lam and the booksellers.<\/p>\n

As the case of the five demonstrates, the CCP\u2019s\u00a0repression and the increasing use of extrajudicial methods is being exported not only to \u2018autonomous\u2019 Hong Kong, but also to fully independent states such as Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, where the Chinese regime enjoys leverage over these governments and Chinese dissidents have been abducted in the past year. In yet another recent case, over 40 Taiwan citizens were deported from Kenya \u2013 to China \u2013 again showing\u00a0the increasing diplomatic clout of the Chinese regime.<\/p>\n

The localists\u2019 claim to defend \u2018Hong Kong interests\u2019 but with a head-in-the-sand approach to the crimes of the Chinese regime against\u00a0the Chinese masses. They oppose linking the mass struggles in Hong Kong with those developing in China. This is a recipe for politically disarming the struggle in Hong Kong against the dictatorship.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the question needs to be asked: are the pan-democratic leaders drawing all the necessary conclusions from this scandal? While pan-democratic spokesmen and women correctly compare the Chinese regime\u2019s actions to gangsters, they fail to point out that this is exactly what we expect \u2013 gangsters act like gangsters, dictators act like dictators! The task of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, and China, is not to try to teach the Chinese regime \u201cgood manners\u201d as to how a civilised government should act \u2013 the task is to mobilise for the overthrow of this regime. This requires mass struggle linked across the border to overthrow capitalism and dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Socialist Action calls for the immediate release of Gui Minhai, still held in mainland captivity, and the dropping of all the fake charges against the five booksellers. We call for the defence of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. In order to stop the reoccurrence of cross-border violations, we call for an independent committee of inquiry including representatives of the grassroots democracy movement, workers\u2019 and media trade unions, along with rights lawyers, into these kidnappings and to examine the extent of mainland security agents operating illegally in Hong Kong. We demand the expulsion from Hong Kong of all covert mainland state security agents.<\/p>\n

\"Socialist
Socialist Action and Socialist magazine \u2013 supporting Lam Wing-kee’s stand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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