CHINA-INTERNAL: LEADERSHIP
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The Chinese Communist Party on April 5, 2015, conveyed permission to the family of the late Premier Zhao Ziyang for the burial of his ashes a decade after his death. His ashes were kept at his former courtyard home in Beijing because there was previously no agreement with the government on a burial site. Zhao Ziyang's son-in-law, Wang Zhihua, said the authorities also agreed that Zhao Ziyang and his wife Liang Boqi, who died in late 2013, be buried together. (Comment: Zhao Ziyang was purged for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement and died on January 17, 2005. His funeral in 2005 was a sensitive event as the authorities feared it could spark large-scale mourning. The lack of a burial site for Zhao became an issue again after Zhao's wife died over a year ago.)
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