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Tiananmen Mortar Plot
In 1951, several foreigners (first row) were convicted of attempting to assassinate Mao Zedong through the Tiananmen Mortar Plot.
LocationTiananmen
Date1 October 1950 (UTC +8:00 (China Standard Time))
Targetchairman Mao Zedong
Attack type
alleged assassination attempt
WeaponsMortar shell
Deaths0
Injured0
PerpetratorsAntonio Riva, Ruichi Yamaguchi, Liu Yi, Tarcisio Martina, Henri Vetch, Quirino Victor Lucy, Walter Genther, Ma Xinqing[1]

The Tiananmen Mortar Plot (Chinese: 炮击天安门案) was an alleged plot to assassinate chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen on 1 October 1950, National Day in China. The plot involved firing a mortar shell at Tiananmen during the parade.[2]

Eight men were accused and quickly convicted of the assassination. Antonio Riva, an Italian trader, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a Japanese bookseller, were executed on 17 August 1951.[3] The Italian bishop Tarcisio Martina was sentenced to life imprisonment and four foreign-born China hands and one Chinese businessman were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to ten years.[4][5][6]

Colonel David D. Barrett was falsely implicated as the leader of the conspiracy by Radio Peking, which the United States government described as "a bare-faced lie".[4][7]

References

  1. ^ "一九五一年度军判字第一一四六号" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
  2. ^ Chang-tai Hung (June 2007). "Mao's Parades: State Spectacles in China in the 1950s". The China Quarterly. 190: 411–431. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Peter (Eleanor Bettina) Lum 1911-1983 A Gathering of Mice". Scholten Japanese Art. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b "CHINA: Old Hands, Beware!". Time. 27 August 1951. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  5. ^ Jung Chang; Jon Halliday (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224071260.
  6. ^ "侦破"炮击天安门"阴谋案纪实(图)" (in Chinese). 26 July 2007. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019.
  7. ^ Dikötter, Frank (2013). The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957 (1 ed.). London: Bloomsbury Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 978-1-62040-347-1.
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