According to the joint report of
The Associated Press and
Reuters, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
six unspecified people who were manning a barricade on a rail line
near the Shanghai Train Station were run over by "an out-of-control
train" on 6 June 1989 ("Protest Spreads to Other Cities", 8 June
1989, p. 1). Shanghai Radio claims that "members of the crowd" set
a railway car on fire, beat up 21 railway security officers and
attacked the fire fighters who were trying to extinguish the fire
(Ibid.).
While reporting different anti-government activities in Shanghai
in the wake of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, an article in
The
New York Times claims that a train "plowed" into six people
blocking the tracks in the vicinity of the Shanghai Train Station
on 6 June 1989 ("Students in Shanghai Wage War of Buses with
Officials", 8 June 1989, p. 1). The article reports a prevailing
view according to which the Chinese authorities ordered the train
crew to ignore the human blockade (Ibid., p. 2). Following the
accident, the angry protestors reportedly set nine passenger cars
of the train and six police sidecar motorcycles ablaze ("Students
in Shanghai wage War of Buses with Officials", 8 June 1989, p. 2).
The Los Angeles Times reports that an unspecified number of
protestors set fire to a train on 6 June 1989 after it roared into
Shanghai's rail station and killed six and wounded six more student
protestors who were manning a barricade near the tracks ("Crowd
Torches Shanghai Train After it Rams, Kills 6 Protestors", 7 June
1989, p. 1)
Amnesty International reports the imposition of the death penalty
to three workers for their alleged involvement in setting fire to a
train after it ran into and killed at least six people in Shanghai
on 6 June 1989 ("Fear of Mass Summary Executions", 16 June 1989, P.
1).
Further information on the subject is currently unavailable to the
IRBDC.
Attachments
Amnesty International. "Fear of Mass
Summary Executions." (AI Index:ASA 17/36/89) (16 June 1989), pp.
1,2.
"Crowd Torches Shanghai Train After it Rams, Kills 6 Protestors."
The Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1989, p. 1.
"Protest Spreads to Other Cities."
The Associated Press &
Reuters, 8 June 1989, pp. 1,2.
"Students in Shanghai wage War of Buses with Officials."
The New
York Times, 8 June 1989, pp. 1-3.
