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Jiangcheng Shuangsha Murder Case and the “80s”Crack down hard“. (Picture source: Internet picture)
After the Lunar New Year in 1992, two murderers named Zhang Xiaolin and Zou Guangqiang were taken to the execution ground in Jilin City, Jilin Province and executed by firing squad after a public trial. These two are called “Jiangcheng Shuangsha“The murderer has committed 28 crimes in the past four years, killing 19 people and seriously injuring 4 people, causing panic in Jilin City, Jiangcheng City. At that time, the case was regarded as a serious crime in Jilin City and even Jilin Province.Communist Party of ChinaIt was the most serious violent case since the usurpation of power, and was also listed as the second most vicious and serious violent case in the country that year.
This case attracted the attention of the police and a special task force was established in the second half of 1991. On July 24, Chang Guoyi, a cadre of the Procuratorial Section of the Longtan District Procuratorate of Jilin City, was followed when he went home for lunch. The moment he opened the door, he was shot through the head with a nail gun. A muffled sound and screams alerted Chang Guoyi’s brother in the house. He was so frightened that he immediately jumped from the balcony to the next door to escape.
After a while, Chang Guoyi’s brother ran out and called the police when he heard there was no movement. When the police arrived at the scene, they found Chang Guoyi lying in a pool of blood and the “May 4th” pistol he was wearing around his waist had been taken away. The police then set up a task force.
After more than a month of wide-ranging investigations, Li Xiaodong, a riveter worker in the machine repair shop of Jilin Chemical Company’s 103 Factory, and his brother Li Xiaofeng were arrested. However, they could not tell the whereabouts of the May 4th-style pistol, so the police stepped up their torture. It was not until the subsequent occurrence of several serial murders that the police realized that the murderer had still not been caught.
On September 17, a taxi driver in Jilin City was shot and killed and the taxi was robbed. The taxi was later found in a secluded area, but the scene was vandalized and no fingerprints of the killer were found, and no bullet casings were found.
Late at night on September 25, two watchmen at a ginseng antler processing factory in Jilin City were brutally murdered and a large amount of cash was stolen. However, the police found two incomplete but valuable fingerprints at the scene. The Jilin Provincial Public Security Department immediately sent the Serious Case Investigation Division to help solve the case.
On the evening of October 6, Zhu Xiaoqiang, deputy director of the Shahezi Police Station of the Suburban Branch of the Jilin City Police Department, who was not supposed to be on duty, went on duty for his colleagues. Also on duty with him was a security officer and his underage son. At around ten o’clock, two dark figures broke into the police station and shot Zhu Xiaoqiang, the security guard and his son successively. Zhu Xiaoqiang’s June 4th-style pistol was taken away.
After investigating the scene, the police found the footprints of two strangers left at the scene. One of them was wearing white plastic-soled three-tight cloth shoes. The man was about 1.75 meters tall. What is even more shocking is that the murderer used the “May 4th” pistol that Chang Guoyi was robbed from.
Only then did the task force realize that the Li brothers had been beaten into submission. The task force believes that the two cases of “7.24” and “10.6” were actions against the police in the political and legal system to rob guns, and the two cases are closely related. Therefore, it is inferred that the murderer was most likely attacked by the Chinese Communist Party’s public security organs. As a result, the police once again investigated criminals who had been in prison.
Before the police could sort it out, on October 16, the watchman of the Jilin City Urban Construction Technical School who was keeping watch was killed in the duty room, and the vault of the Urban Construction Technical School was smashed by criminals. Although it was unsuccessful, it still made people feel sad. Breaking into a cold sweat. After on-site investigation, the police found that the footprints at the scene of the two cases “9.25” and “10.16” were the same. Finally, the police determined that the “7.24”, “10.6”, “9.25” and “10.16” cases were all committed by a violent gang. Preliminary It was determined that two people committed the crime.
Immediately, the Jilin City Police Department mobilized the city’s 3,000 police officers to conduct a one-by-one screening of the city’s more than 30,000 electricians and related employees, as well as more than 40,000 welders, and went to the detention center to call out all 4,376 people who had been attacked since 1983. , check carefully one by one.
The task force deduced that the criminal was in Jilin City and was familiar with Shanqian Street in Longtan District, Hada Street in Changyi District, and Shahezi in the suburbs. He was most likely to have settled down or work in a nearby unit.
After the police investigated the source of the nail gun and conducted several rounds of fingerprint comparisons, on December 18, criminal investigators discovered that the fingerprints of Zhang Xiaolin, a worker of the Provincial Metallurgical Construction Company living in Group 17, Committee 15, Xinghua Street, were the same as those at the scene of the “9.25” case. The remaining fingerprints had 7 similarities, which led to the identification of Zhang Xiaolin as one of the “9.25” criminals.
Zhang Xiaolin is 26 years old and 1.76 meters tall. In 1983, he was sent to a labor camp for three years for theft during the “Severe Strike” campaign. Now he is a worker in the Mechanical and Electrical Branch of Jilin Metallurgical Construction Company. Both his height and background match the characteristics of the criminal.
At 8 o’clock that night, the task force dispatched eight police officers to arrest Zhang Xiaolin. At first, the police lied that they were coming from the neighborhood committee to look at the heating pipes, but no one opened the door after knocking on the door for a long time. The police immediately kicked in the door and arrested Zhang Xiaolin. The strange thing is that Zhang Xiaolin yelled crazily after being arrested. Even after being gagged, he deliberately screamed in the corridor.
The police suspected that their accomplices were in the same corridor, so they sealed the entrance to the corridor. At the same time, they went to the local police station to learn about the situation and found that Zou Guangqiang and Zhang Xiaolin, welders from the Jilin Chemical Equipment Factory in the same corridor, had a close relationship. The police broke down the door again and arrested Zou Guangqiang, and found two missing guns and 15 bullets in his house.
After interrogation, the two admitted the crime. It turned out that Zhang Xiaolin had been imprisoned for stealing during the “severe crackdown” in 1983, and Zou Guangqiang had been sent to a labor camp for three years in 1984 for hooliganism and explosion crimes. The two met in prison. After being released from prison, they were dissatisfied with the CCP’s “severe crackdown” and determined to retaliate against society. And the cases the police know about are only a small part of the cases they do. The two committed multiple crimes for more than four years starting in July 1988, killing 19 people and seriously injuring 4 others, including the murder and robbery at Dongshan Cremation Ground in Jilin City and the killing of the deputy director of tobacco in Longtan District. However, at least six victims cannot be identified.
After the real murderer was captured, brothers Li Xiaodong and Li Xiaofeng were officially released. But how can their torture by the police be canceled with a mere compensation?
Although the crimes committed by Zhang Xiaolin and Zou Guangqiang are unforgivable, the CCP authorities’ “hard crackdown” in the 1980s created a lot of grievances. Zhang Xiaolin and Zou Guangqiang were also victims, and they took revenge on the police and society because of their resentment. road, what responsibility should the CCP bear?
After the Cultural Revolution, a large number of educated youth returned to the city, and the number of people wandering in society increased. The society has experienced temporary chaos, and some vicious cases have also occurred. In the early 1980s, as the Communist Party of China began to implement the reform and opening up policy, Western liberal ideas entered China. More young people began to pursue individual freedom, and party dancing became popular.
The CCP is deeply afraid that its ideology will be subverted and the people will awaken and question the legitimacy of its governance. On the one hand, it launched a campaign of “anti-bourgeois liberalization and elimination of spiritual pollution” to eradicate dissidents and control thoughts; on the other hand, it used the name of “strike hard” to carry out mass killings. , rectify and maintain stability. In the summer of 1983, Deng Xiaoping, who was on his way to Beidaihe but was blocked by the “Chopper Squad” in Tangshan, ordered three battles to be organized within three years. A group of people must be killed, and some must be locked up for a long time. The attack must be severe, severe and rapid. He also said: “Cracking down hard means strengthening the power of the dictatorship. This is dictatorship.”
As a result, the Chinese Communist Party’s public, prosecutorial and legal agencies jointly handled the case, sentenced minor crimes to heavy sentences, tortured them to extract confessions, and disregarded human lives. The slogan put forward at that time was: “Those who may or may not be arrested will be arrested resolutely; those who may or may not be sentenced shall be sentenced resolutely; those who may or may not be killed shall be killed resolutely.”
In 1983, the first nationwide “strike hard” campaign began with the annihilation of Tangshan. (Image/Image source: China Photos/Getty Images).
“Strike Hard” in the 1980s
According to mainland media reports, the first nationwide “severe crackdown” began with the annihilation of Tangshan in 1983. That year, more than 600 kitchen knife members involved in the case, with or without kitchen knives, were quickly sentenced to death. After a public trial, they were taken to Yuegezhuang Coal Mine in the suburbs of Tangshan. Shooting on the spot in the collapse area. How many innocent souls are there among them?
In some places, the police arrested thousands of people in one night, and most of them were just because men and women were partying and dancing. Later, they were sentenced for hooliganism. The leader was shot, and the rest were sentenced to more than 10 years and sent to the frontier for reform. Some areas have also devolved death penalty quotas to counties. There were more than 500 workers in a certain factory, and the target for strict crackdown issued that year was 30 workers, which exceeded 5%. Many people died unjustly just to make up the numbers. Someone robbed half a flatbed truck of cucumbers and was killed! A 10-year-old kid who grabs a movie ticket is basically sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.
There is also a young man named Wang in Naxi, Luzhou, Sichuan. He made a bet with his companions on the road: Do you dare to kiss a girl? The young man actually went to kiss a passing girl and was caught and shot.
A girl was taking a bath in her yard on a summer night. At this time, a boy of similar age from the same village passed by the door. Because the courtyard wall was low, he stretched his head and took a look. The girl shouted “hooligan”, and the boy was arrested and immediately sentenced. Shot for gangsterism.
Liang Xiong, a 22-year-old man from Ganzhou, Jiangxi, was detained for 15 days for a quarrel. When the “severe crackdown” came, he was taken to the execution ground and shot. His body was confiscated and his organs were stolen. The poor parents didn’t even get their son’s ashes.
Wang Rui, former director of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department, recalled that some people who were playing mahjong on the side of the road with only a small prize of 1 cent were also arrested and treated as gambling.
At that time, the well-known actor Chi Zhiqiang was also sentenced to jail for “hooliganism” and his acting career was ruined. However, the actual situation was that he just attended a dance party for the children of a senior official and had a consensual relationship with the daughter of a senior official. Did that next time.
According to leaked photos of executed prisoners during the “hard crackdown” period, dozens of people were shot at one time. After the execution, there was blood dripping and it was too horrible to watch.
Official data from the Chinese Communist Party shows that in the first “hard crackdown” in 1983, a total of 197,000 criminal gangs were seized, 876,000 gang members were investigated and prosecuted, a total of 1.772 million people were arrested nationwide, and 1.747 million people were sentenced, of which 24,000 were sentenced to death. , 321,000 people were sent to reeducation through labor. According to the CCP’s rhetoric, “This is the largest concentrated attack since the anti-counterrevolutionary campaign in 1950.”
24,000 people were shot to death, a number that exceeds the total number of executions in all countries and regions except mainland China. The actual number of executions is between five and six figures, which is equivalent to the deaths caused by a large-scale war. Therefore, it is called the “83 Mainland China Massacre” by Western countries.
However, “crack down hard” only worked for a period of time. What’s more serious is that “crack down hard” has resulted in many unjust cases and deviations from the legal track. Some people have been sanctioned just because of moral issues. Were Zhang Xiaolin, who stole things, and Zou Guangqiang, who committed “hooliganism”, also given excessive sentences?
In 2013, Wang Mingliang, a professor at the School of Law at Fudan University in Shanghai, once said, “Crackdown has a ‘quick-acting’ effect and can take effect in the shortest possible time, suppressing the momentum of crime. The main reason is that the government can concentrate judicial resources in a short period of time. To a certain extent, the various factors that cause crimes can be controlled. However, the scope of crackdown is limited and can only target serious crimes, and cannot be applied to minor crimes.”
As for the social problems that emerged after the Cultural Revolution, Deng and the CCP did not fundamentally solve the problems, but continued to crack down with high pressure. While creating new “opponents” for themselves, does this also indicate the incompetence of the CCP leaders and the fundamental nature of the CCP? Nothing has changed?
Editor in charge: Yi Tian
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