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| | China defends 1989 crackdown, dismissal of sympathetic party leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Zhao spent his last 15 years under house arrest after being dismissed as the country's top leader. |
 | | Asked for the government's opinion of Zhao, the spokesman cited rulings that the student-led protests were a counterrevolutionary riot and that Zhao, who sympathized with the demonstrators, tried to "split the party." |
 | | Zhao's family had not informed his widow, Liang Boqi, of his death, and won't make its own memorial plans until it does so, said Frank Lu, a Hong Kong-based human rights activist. |
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