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No. 4 China leader attends ousted Zhao's funeral
2005-01-28
BEIJING - China's fourth-ranking Communist Party leader, Jia Qinglin, and several other senior officials, attended the funeral of purged party chief Zhao Ziyang on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said."On behalf of the leaders of the central authorities, Jia Qinglin and other senior officials were at the cemetery to bid farewell to the remains of Comrade Zhao and expressed condolences to his families," Xinhua said in its first report on the funeral. The report, in English, was not repeated in Chinese, indicating it was aimed at a foreign audience. Hundreds of mourners filed past the body at a low-key funeral held for Zhao, purged for sympathising with protests for democracy in 1989, at a ceremony under tight security for fear of sparking demonstrations.
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