What are the chances that the next time that you pack your bags with excitement and take a flight abroad to travel, as soon as you disembark from your flight someone will be waiting to kill you with an AK-47? Up until now in the South Africa shooting case, the local police have yet to come to a conclusion about the murder attempt. Still, the whole situation has somewhat exposed the CCP's style of iron-fisted rule. It’s clear why the incident happened. Falun Gong practitioners wanted call on Vice-President Zeng Qinghong and Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai, who both were visiting in South Africa at the time of the incident, to tell the Chinese government to stop torturing Falun Gong practitioners to death.
Since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921, its history, full of bloodstains and the ghosts of the wrongly accused, is enough to make one sigh from sadness, and be unable to continue reading. It truly is a bloodthirsty party! It's no wonder that Falun Gong practitioners allege that Zeng Qinghong hired a hit man to shoot one of them. Now, the Chinese economy is gradually improving, and many foreign businesspeople show an unprecedented excitement towards it. But when one looks closely at comments on Chinese websites and news from inside China, one finds that the economy is simply a trap set up by the CCP.
Since the reforms and opening up, foreign news and information has begun to sporadically enter the Mainland. Just think about it: If intelligent Chinese people were no longer subject to the supervision and tricks of the Chinese government, in the future they would be able to experience the meaning of freedom in a deep way, and the current structure of society would be broken through to some extent. What we know, however, is that the CCP is closely monitoring the actions of the 1.6 billion Chinese people, including their phone calls, Internet access, postal items and the media reports they see and hear.
Warren Kuo, former head of the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, is very familiar with the history of the CCP. He said that the party's structure was setup like a spy organization, which is suitable for secret work and underground struggles, "The whole strength of the party was used to establish and support special agent work; at the same special agents were used [by some] to control the whole party. All of this made the party into spies." Much current evidence shows that the CCP has not changed its nature over the years.
The CCP was originally fostered by the Soviet Communist Party and from its outset has been full of spies and secrets, and is good at turning interpersonal conflicts into large disputes. In order to achieve its goals, the party often resorts to disguise, bribing, ambushing, infiltration, assassination and other means. After using such methods to come into power, the CCP forced more than 50 years of physical and spiritual misery upon China. The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has yet to be redressed. Five years after July 1999, when the traditional Qigong practice Falun Gong was labeled as a target of political persecution, the Cultural Revolution-style methods the CCP used against Falun and worked so hard to conceal, are gradually coming to light. Now the South Africa shooting incident has occurred, shocking governments around the world and derailing CCP’s efforts to whitewash its bloody hands.
Fighting for Everything Under Heaven, Spy Network Slaughters the Innocent
From January 1923 until April 1927, the KMT (Kuomingtang - Nationalist Party) adopted the policy of allying themselves with the Communist USSR, but at the same time were being infiltrated by Chinese Communist Party members. Conflicts between the two parties grew deeper daily, especially during the Northern Expedition, when they could not coordinate and work together because of differences in opinions. In May 1920, the CCP had already established a provisional central government in Shanghai. The two parties secretly fought to see who was stronger for gaining leadership of the country. In May 1927 the KMT began to implement their policy of house cleaning so, at that time, many CCP members left their party one after another and joined the KMT. This was seen as a serious internal issue for the CCP, who then began using assassination to suppress mutineers within the party. The suppression later expanded to all CCP members with differing opinions.
In July 1928, after the KMT carried out their housecleaning policy, the CCP held their 6th Congress in Moscow, where they decided to follow the Soviet KGB system in forming their own spy network. While in the USSR, Zhou Enlai, Minister of Military Affairs, received spy training, and returned to China the next year, setting up the "Special Agents Conference" in Shanghai under the auspices of the Central Political Bureau. At its outset the conference had Gu Shunzhang as its prime minister, and the conference's major decision-makers were Gu (who was an alternate member of the Political Bureau), Zhou, and Xiang Zhongfa (Secretary-General). In the opening issue of the CCP's central headquarters' first publication, "Organization Newsletter," it was recorded that in 1929 party spies in Pinjiang, Hunan province, Liuyang, Hubei province, Huang'an and other areas, "have adopted terrorism and gone to extremes, arbitrarily executing fellow comrades."
In 1930, Mao Zedong, established the "Soviet Red District Special Agent Organization" in his Jiangxi Soviet. The original purpose of the organization was to carry out espionage for the CCP. The secret agent system followed the procedures of the Soviet KGB in using brutal tactics to protect itself and to harm others and its range of supervision included both the military and government organizations and workplaces.
In 1931 the CCP set up its own Political Protection Agency, dedicated to eliminating counterrevolutionaries within the party. From July 1927 to July 1928, the Chinese Communists incited a number of insurrections, such as the Army Day Nanchang Rebellion and the Four-Province Autumn Harvest Uprising. According to sources, they "rudely carried out red terror, killing local tyrants, government officials, and all counterrevolutionary factions," burning down cities and murdering civilians at random.
After the Committee to Eliminate Counterrevolutionaries was established, the CCP began in earnest to get rid of counterrevolutionaries under the pretense of eliminating the AB Faction of the KMT, other parties, and reformist factions, creating a river of blood. Party members were forced under torture to confess to another or to higher-ranking cadres. According to Chen Ran, who had participated in the CCP's struggle to eliminate counterrevolutionaries, "At that time, all levels of the government and the army were 'counterrevolutionary' even those in charge of 'eliminating counterrevolutionaries' (such as Li Shaojiu, Que Chaofang and Lin Yizhu) were eventually accused of violating the revolution and became further victims of that massacre."
Top-Level Assassins: The Red Troop
The Red Troop was established under the Protection Section of the Special Agent Conference and its duties were to protect the leaders of the Central Committee of the CCP, assassinate traitors within the party and KMT Government security agents, as well as to carry out kidnappings for ransom and other forms of extortion to raise money for the party.
As Gu Shunzhang later confessed, when the CCP was training the Red Troop, in order to conceal its doings, it bought boats in which it set up rooms to provide firing practice for the Red Troop. It would also utilize the occasion of the Chinese New Year, when all households were setting off firecrackers, to carry out its firing practice. The drill organizers would make scarecrow-like targets out of rice straw, and would carry out various drills, from fixed objects to moving objects, large targets to small targets, and in both bright and dark environments.
In order to more smoothly carry out their goals, the Central Committee imbued the Red Troop with the political theory that hatred is central. In the two months after a sniper's task was complete he or she was not allowed to appear in public so as to prevent detection. Red Troopers were not lacking in their material lives, however, as all of their daily necessities were provided by the Party and whatever they wanted was given to them.
Outside of their daily duties, the Red Troopers were dispatched to guard important offices and plenary meetings of the CCP. They also performed duties such as cooking and driving for high-level cadres. This was both to provide protection for the officials and to watch them closely to see whether or not they were disloyal to the party.
A research unit, responsible for maintaining constant connection between special agents, was set up under the Special Agent Conference. The General Affairs Section was responsible for establishing personal connections in industry and commerce, arranging secret meeting places, selecting and buying arms and ammunition for special agents, and to rescue and make inquiries about arrested personnel.
When the CCP established the Red Troopers, its original assassination target were nonconformists in the party and those that j the KMT. Later, because the KMT formed an Investigation Section to reconnoiter spies, the CCP changed the Red Troop's focus to KMT Investigation Section personnel.
Assassinations
- Assassinating Bai Xin
Bai Xin entered the CCP in its early years, had participated in many communist insurrections on land and sea, and had served as the Secretary of the Jiangsu Province CCP Military Commission, but later surrendered to the KMT. He moved into the residence of a Shanghai KMT member, Fan Zhengbo, where he had two bodyguards watching over him, and lived a secluded life. After the CCP learned of his whereabouts, it dispatched seven Red Troop personnel to rent a nearby apartment and to watch over Bai day and night. One of the Red Troop members disguised herself as a housewife and became good friends with the housewife of Fan Zhenbo, and through her found out about Bai's daily activities. With this knowledge, the Red Troop assassinated Bai Xin on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
- Strangling The Whole Family of Gu Shunzhang
Gu Shunzhang was originally one of the heads of the CCP special agent system. In 1931 he was arrested by the KMT and assisted them in uncovering many of the CCP's secret hideouts. All eight members of Gu's family were later strangled to death and buried in the French Concession in Shanghai. The Red Troop Section Chief Wang Shide was also arrested by the KMT and during his detention he confessed about many other assassinations the Red Troopers had committed. Wang also said that whomever disobeyed the party authorities or the orders of Zhou Enlai, would be assassinated.
- Assasinating Chiang Kai-Shek
In the winter of 1929, Zhou Enlai personally travelled to Xiaguan in Nanjing to order the planting of land mines to assassinate Chiang Kai-Shek, but his scheme did not succeed.
- Stabbing Workers of the Secret KMT Office to Death
On November 25, 1932, six Red Troop members rushed into a secret KMT Investigation Section Office in Zhabei District and began stabbing the workers inside. One office personnel worker was killed and four were seriously injured.
- Stabbing Personnel of the Shanghai Investigation Section Office to Death
On April 11, 1933, personnel from the KMT's Investigation Section crossed onto Jiangyin Street from Nanjing Road. There they were assaulted by Red Troop personnel and one was stabbed to death and two were seriously injured.
- Stabbing Shi Jimei, Head of Shanghai Investigation Section Office, to Death
In June 14, 1933, Shi was heading back to Shanghai from Nanjing when the Red Troopers assassinated him.