Tiananmen Mortar Plot

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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.
Location	Tiananmen
Date	1 October 1950 (UTC +8:00 (China Standard Time))
Target	chairman Mao Zedong
Attack type	alleged assassination attempt
Weapons	Mortar shell
Deaths	0
Injured	0
Perpetrators	Antonio 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]

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^ Chang-tai Hung (June 2007). "Mao's Parades: State Spectacles in China in the 1950s". The China Quarterly. 190 (190): 411–431. doi:10.1017/S0305741007001269. JSTOR 20192777. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
^ "Peter (Eleanor Bettina) Lum 1911-1983 A Gathering of Mice". Scholten Japanese Art. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
^ ^a ^b "CHINA: Old Hands, Beware!". Time. 27 August 1951. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
^ Jung Chang; Jon Halliday (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224071260.
^ "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.
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