【新唐人2012年8月24日讯】大陆媒体报导，中共喉舌《人民日报》大地副刊主编徐怀谦，22号坠楼身亡。徐怀谦的自杀一度引起新闻界人士的震惊和叹息。那么徐怀谦生前是怎样的一个人，他为什么选择自杀呢？请看本台记者的报导。
徐怀谦今年44岁，毕业于北京大学中文系，后来获得“中国社科研究生院”文学硕士学位。他的作品《酷的脸》被世人称好。他写道：“有人说，这是一个平庸的时代，一个物质的时代，一个愚乐的时代，一个缺乏大师的时代，可是，我们不能把什么过错都推给时代。一个人左右不了时代，却可以左右自己的脸——它可以不漂亮，却不可以没内容﹔它可以很丑，却不可以没有个性。”
《都市快报》首席评论员徐迅雷在他的微博上写道：我的好友、著名杂文家、《人民日报》大地副刊主编徐怀谦先生，因罹患抑郁症，8月22号下午2时，不幸去世！
和徐怀谦生前接触过的新闻界人士，对于徐怀谦的身亡表示震惊。作家徐坤表示，徐怀谦先生走好！今年春天的时候与先生一起在某著名文学杂志当评委，徐怀谦发言中思维敏健，固持内心，是唯一一个表示不投大BOSS（老板）票的人。唉！可惜，可惜啊！
那么徐怀谦这么年轻为什么选择自杀呢？原“山东大学”退休教授孙文广分析，作为一个媒体人，他如果想坚持真理，坚持为民众鸣不平，就是对民间的疾苦负责，这样一个人，他有的时候要碰到难处。
原“山东大学”退休教授 孙文广：“因为中共当局把这个媒体当作它们的喉舌，不能够独立、自由的表达观点，那么他是不是由于在这样一个环境下，他最后承受不了这个压力，或者是要反抗的话，牵扯到方方面面，比喻家庭、地位，都要受到威胁。”
孙文广指出，大陆官场现在相当黑暗，按照司法程序不能解决矛盾。他认为，如果媒体是自由的，司法是公正的，像徐怀谦这样的人不会走向自杀的道路。
据《美国之音》报导，今年公开报导的“中共官员自杀事件”已经超过十起，跳楼自杀者居多。8月15号，中国广东台山安监局局长梅建敏，和中国湖南省汨罗市“双规”人员徐向军，都是跳楼身亡。
然而，大陆媒体在报导官员自杀的消息时，通常将自杀原因归为官员精神压力大、精神高度紧张，甚至有精神抑郁等。报导引述“清华大学公共卫生研究中心”主任景军教授的话指出，官员自杀原因毫无疑问包括腐败、竞争等因素。
深圳独立作家朱健国也指出，官员自杀的主要原因是因为“民主监督制度”不够，当这些官员走上腐败之路以后，东窗事发之前，他们选择了自杀。
深圳独立作家 朱健国：“现在这个刑讯逼供实际上是普遍的，他们自己心里清楚，即使是双规，里面也有很多变相的刑讯逼供。所以他们觉得进去以后生不如死，他也知道法制不健全，所以带来很多官员他要跳楼死。”
朱健国表示，没有充分民主法制的制度，不仅民不聊生，官员也不聊生。因此，官员自杀是做困兽之斗，朱健国希望社会来关注他们的死亡。
不过，据了解，中共官员自杀原因多以精神抑郁为主，这是中共官场的潜规则，因为只要官员是“抑郁自杀”，那么，真正的死亡原因就会灰飞烟灭，完全被掩盖住了。
采访/朱智善 编辑/唐睿 后制/王明宇
Shocking: A Chief Editor’s Death
According to mainland media reports, Xu Huaiqian,
editor in chief for supplement The Earth of the People’s Daily,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece,
fell from the 22nd floor of a building and died.
Journalists are shocked over Xu Huaiqian’s suicide.
What kind of person was Xu Huaiqian when alive?
Why would he commit suicide?
Let’s see the report.
Xuhuai Qian, 44, graduated from Department of Chinese
Language and Literature at Peking University.
He then obtained a Master of Arts degree in Social Science.
His work, Cool Faces, is loved by many.
He wrote: “Some people say this is a mediocre era,
an era of substance, a stupid entertaining era, and an era lacking masters.
But we cannot just blame the era.
One cannot change the era, but can control his/her own face.
The face could be unhandsome, but can have content;
it could be very ugly, but cannot be with no personality.”
Xu Xunlei, chief commentator of City Express wrote on his
microblog, “Xu Huaiqian, my friend, a famous essay writer,
and editor in chief of Earth Supplement of the People’s Daily,
has been suffering from depression, and passed away at 2pm on August 22 unfortunately!”
Journalists that Xu Huaiqian had contacted before
were shocked by his death. Writer Xu Kun said,
“Mr. Xu Huaiqian, take care! Last spring, Mr. Xu and I were on
the judging panel for a famous literature magazine,
and Mr. Xu’s comments were quick-thinking,
and he was persistent with his own opinions.
Mr. Xu was the only one who would not vote for the winner.
Alas! Unfortunately, it is a pity!”
Why did Xu Huaiqian choose suicide at such an young age?
Sun Wenguang, a retired professor of Shandong University,
said that as a media person who wanted to uphold the truth,
adhere to seeking justice for the people,
be responsible for the sufferings of the civilians,
he sometimes encountered difficulties.
Sun Wenguang: “Because the CCP authorities take the media
as their mouthpiece, the media cannot be independent and freely express views.
So I wonder if he just could not bear the pressure under
such conditions.
Even if he wanted to resist, it will involve all aspects,
like his family and social status; they will all be threatened.”
Sun Wenguang pointed out that mainland officialdom
is quite dark, and you cannot resolve the contradiction through the judicial process.
Sun believes that if the media is free and the legal system
upholds justice, people like Xu Huaiqian will not commit suicide.
Voice of America reported that over 10 CCP official suicides
were made public in 2012. Most jumped off a building to die.
On August 15, Mei Jianmin, the director of Security Inspection
Bureau in Taishan, Guangdong, and Xu Xiangjun from Miluo, Hunan Province,
who had been detained for interrogation,
both died by jumping off a building.
When mainland media report officials’ suicides, they usually
attribute the causes of suicide to mental stress, high spirit tension, and even mental depression.
The report quoted the words of Professor Ren Jingjun
of the Public Health Research Center in Tsinghua University,
who pointed out that officials’ suicide reasons undoubtedly
include factors of corruption and competition.
Shenzhen independent writer Zhu Jianguo also pointed out
the leading cause of officials’ suicide is that there is no sufficient democratic supervision system.
After these officials embarked on the road of corruption,
they choose to commit suicide before being unmasked.
Zhu Jianguo: “Extorting confessions by torture
is now actually universal.
They themselves knew even being detained for interrogation,
there will be various extorting confessions by torture.
So they’d rather die than go through that.
They also know that the legal system is not sound,
so a lot of the officials choose to jump off a building."
Zhu Jianguo said that without full democracy and a legal
system, not only are common people in hardship, officials also find it hard to live.
Their suicide was to make a last struggle.
Zhu Jianguo hopes the society will pay attention to their deaths.
It is said that the CCP officials’ suicides were mainly attributed
to mental depression, which is the unspoken rule of CCP officialdom.
As long as officials commit suicide out of depression,
then the real cause of death will be swept under the rug.
