【一丘之貉】屠夫指責屠夫
【現代水滸傳】：北京好不過東京多少
英國《泰晤士報》前東亞編輯
梅兆贊（Ｊｏｎａｔｈａｎ Ｍｉｒｓｋｙ）
日期：２０００年１月２７日
天下最惱人的事，無過於有些事情你親眼看著發生，人家卻告訴你從
來沒有發生。一九三七年日本皇軍展開南京大屠殺，被殺者怕有三十
萬人。當年目睹而逃過大難的中國人，今天有些仍然在世。
否定事實令人氣憤
屠城的史實，不但很多中國人知道，日本人也知道，包括最高層人物。
所以日本外務大臣河野洋平上星期說，日軍進佔南京之後，「殺人擄
掠並犯下其他惡行」是「無可否認」的事實。
因此，日本一個右翼組織的二百名成員最近在大阪集會，要把一九三
七年史實抹去，的確可憎可惱。一些日本和華人團體即到場抗議，表
示對那些右翼言論深感憤慨。
中國外交部對這個右翼分子會議「表示十分憤慨並予以強烈譴責」，
堅稱日本政府應禁止會議舉行。
我說過，無可否定的事實竟然給人否定，的確令人氣憤難平。
天安門事件也是一樣。事件中實實在在有不少人被殺。不但在廣場四
周，也在廣場之內。目睹的除了我，還有《紐約時報》等報章的通訊
員。
但這個事實也可以否認。天下無事不可以。我清楚記得一九八九年夏
末，在倫敦中國大使館一個佳餚羅列的午宴上，一位高級中國外交官
問我六月三日深夜和四日黎明看到甚麼，是看到甚麼，不是發生了甚
麼。我講完之後，他說：「這些事情從來沒有發生。我們有不同的消
息。」
而這一直就是北京對天安門事件的立場。一九九六年十二月，中國國
防部長遲浩田上將在華盛頓美國國防大學說：「我以負責、嚴肅的態
度告訴各位，事件中天安門廣場上沒有一人喪生。」他談到有「流氓」、
「推推撞撞」，又談到有學生「靜坐抗議」。他還為一些解放軍戰士
被殺而難過。
遲上將當然不會不了解實情。天安門當日的軍事行動是由他負責指揮
的。他對聽眾席上幾百名美國軍官講的那些話，白宮發言人後來說是
「可惜」和「不準確」的，但遲上將到訪前夕，美國國防部發布的遲
浩田小傳，也不提及他在天安門事件中擔當的任務，而那是任何軍事
手冊都會詳述的。國防部發言人解釋新聞稿這個遺漏說，遲上將不是
天安門事件的「設計師」。
現在北京政府憤然作色，不滿東京當局縱容污衊南京史實者在大阪集
會。而北京當局卻禁止其國民對天安門事件表示憤慨。他們嚴密監視
著走進廣場里的人，一見任何異動，例如要演講、展示標語或派發傳
單，即予拘捕。有時，他們索性封鎖廣場。一九九九年就封鎖了好幾
個月。
評論六四北京不容
天安門屠殺之後六個月內，我發覺北京當局已把廣場內和方圓幾百碼
地方的槍彈孔一一填上。地面石塊上坦克輪胎的痕跡也給磨去了。直
到今天，中國監獄里還囚著大膽直言天安門事件的人。
中國人現在可以自由談論的事情不少，但不要說批評，就是猜測天安
門事件主腦是誰以及事件真相，仍為當局所不容。一九八九年六月三、
四日所發生的依然是「事件」或「反革命暴亂」。國家主席江澤民對
整件事的評語是：「小題大做。」
「現代水滸傳：北京好不過東京多少」英文原文
Beijing is no better than Tokyo
Jonathan Mirsky
Former East Asia Editor, The Times of London
Date: Jan 27, 2000
Nothing is more maddening that being told that something
you saw happen never did. There are still Chinese alive
who survived the Nanjing massacre of 1937 in which perhaps
300,000 people were killed by soldiers of the Japanese
Imperial Army.
Not only do many Chinese know this happened; so do the
Japanese, and at the highest level. That is why last week
Foreign Minister Yohei Kono stated it is an "undeniable"
fact that Japanese soldiers entered Nanjing and "killed
and looted and committed other acts. " Mr Kono said that
this is the official view of the Japanese Government, and
has been so for many years.
It is therefore repulsive and enraging that 200 members
of a Japanese right-wing group recently met in Osaka
to deny that the events of 1937 ever too place. Japanese
and Chinese groups on the scene demonstrated their
outrage at the rightwingers' views.
The Chinese Foreign Office "expressed its grave anger
and denounced " the rightwingers' gathering, and insisted
that the Japanese government should have prevented it.
As I say, others denying an undeniable fact drives us crazy.
And so it is with Tiananmen. It is a fact that many were killed,
not only around the Square, but in it.
I saw such killing and so did correspondents from papers
like the New York Times.
But it is not an undeniable fact. Nothing is. How well I recall
a senior Chinese diplomat, during a delicious lunch in Beijing's
embassy in London, asking me in late summer 1989 what I
saw - not what happened, what I saw - on the night and
morning of 3-4 June. When I had finished he said
"Those things didn't happen. We have other information. "
And that has been Beijing's Line on Tiananmen ever since.
In December, 1996 Defense Minister General Chi Haotian,
said at the United States National Defence University, in
Washington, " I can tell you in a responsible and serious
manner that at that time not a single person lost his life in
Tiananmen square." He described " hooligans, " "pushing
and shoving, " and students "sitting in." He was sorry
soldiers had been killed.
Of course General Chi knew the facts. He had been in
operational command during Tiananmen.
What he said to the several hundred American military
officers in his audience was described later by the
White House spokesman as "unfortunate" and "inaccurate. "
But the American Department of Defence had omitted
General Chi's role during Tiananmen in the biography
of him it distributed just before his visit, although an army
handbook provided all the details. The Department of
Defence spokesman explained the omission in the publicity
handout; General Chi had not been Tiananmen's " architect. "
The Chinese government is outraged that Tokyo did nothing
to prevent the defamers of Nanjing from meeting in Osaka.
Some might describe that as a free-speech matter in a
democracy, although in Germany publicly denying the
Holocaust is illegal.
But Beijing prevents its own citizens from expressing outrage
about Tiananmen. It watches closely who goes into the Square,
arrests at once anyone who shows the slightest indication of
speaking there, displaying a banner, or distributing a leaflet.
Sometimes, for instance for months in 1999, it closes off the
Square altogether.
Within six months of the Tiananmen killings, I noticed that
the authorities in Beijing had managed to cover over every
bullet hole within Tiananmen and for hundreds of yards around
it, and to scrape the tank tread-marks out of the paving stones.
There are prisoners in Chinese gaols to this day for speaking
up about Tiananmen.
Many things are now permitted in discourse in China, but
speculating about, much less judging, who was responsible
for Tiananmen and what actually happened, remain taboo.
3-4 June is still "the incident " or "the counter-revolutionary
uprising, " and President Jiang Zemin's comment is "Much
ado about nothing. " Maddening.
1999 (C) Apple Daily Ltd.
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