Show 12A Sunday June WORLD 4 1995 BEIJING - SfCMWINN MSB llliHir Cm In late 1993 nine people held a tense fi meeting inside a Beijing apartment building that was surrounded by plainclothes policemen Their mission: to sign a “peace charter” a statement of principles modeled on one forged by Czech dissidents in Eastern Europe before the fall of communism “Our main aim was to relaunch the democratic movement because it was at such a low trough" recalled Song Shuyuan one of the charwho at the time ter’s carried a business card that read: “The Immense Force Trading Co” Now it appears as though the Immense Force has run smack into the immovable object Of the cofounders of the Peace Charter three have been sentenced to three years and Song who was interviewed in Hong Kong has gone reluctantly into exile in the United States Others are hamstrung by close police surveillance “The scope for being active in China was getting smaller and smaller” Song said Six years after the bloody crackdown by army troops on demonstrations in Tiananthe state of the opposition in China remains weak Despite private grumbling by Chinese citizens anything that hints of organized opposition is swiftly crushed “As soon as you establish a platform and goals you're no longer allowed to exist” said activist Liu Nianchun in an interview in March “You’ll be immediately sentenced” Unable to demonstrate publish or negotiate intellectuals have resorted to petitions appealing for everything from greater tolerance for dissent to cleaner government But China’s Communist rulers are in no mood to talk things over In the past two weeks the government has arrested two dozen people involved in the petitions and detained about 20 others for questioning The flurry of petitions shows the inability of the government to snuff out dissent but the tiny number of signatories also points to the relatively modest size of the dissident network No more than 56 people have signed any one of the petitions approximately one for every million members of the Communist Party LOW COST MORTGAGE LOANS! 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