【新唐人2012年8月24日訊】大陸媒體報導，中共喉舌《人民日報》大地副刊主編徐懷謙，22號墜樓身亡。徐懷謙的自殺一度引起新聞界人士的震驚和嘆息。那麼徐懷謙生前是怎樣的一個人，他為甚麼選擇自殺呢？請看本臺記者的報導。
徐懷謙今年44歲，畢業於北京大學中文系，後來獲得「中國社科研究生院」文學碩士學位。他的作品《酷的臉》被世人稱好。他寫道：「有人說，這是一個平庸的時代，一個物質的時代，一個愚樂的時代，一個缺乏大師的時代，可是，我們不能把甚麼過錯都推給時代。一個人左右不了時代，卻可以左右自己的臉——它可以不漂亮，卻不可以沒內容﹔它可以很醜，卻不可以沒有個性。」
《都市快報》首席評論員徐迅雷在他的微博上寫道：我的好友、著名雜文家、《人民日報》大地副刊主編徐懷謙先生，因罹患抑鬱症，8月22號下午2時，不幸去世！
和徐懷謙生前接觸過的新聞界人士，對於徐懷謙的身亡表示震驚。作家徐坤表示，徐懷謙先生走好！今年春天的時候與先生一起在某著名文學雜誌當評委，徐懷謙發言中思維敏健，固持內心，是唯一一個表示不投大BOSS（老闆）票的人。唉！可惜，可惜啊！
那麼徐懷謙這麼年輕為甚麼選擇自殺呢？原「山東大學」退休教授孫文廣分析，作為一個媒體人，他如果想堅持真理，堅持為民眾鳴不平，就是對民間的疾苦負責，這樣一個人，他有的時候要碰到難處。
原「山東大學」退休教授 孫文廣：「因為中共當局把這個媒體當作它們的喉舌，不能夠獨立、自由的表達觀點，那麼他是不是由於在這樣一個環境下，他最後承受不了這個壓力，或者是要反抗的話，牽扯到方方面面，比喻家庭、地位，都要受到威脅。」
孫文廣指出，大陸官場現在相當黑暗，按照司法程序不能解決矛盾。他認為，如果媒體是自由的，司法是公正的，像徐懷謙這樣的人不會走向自殺的道路。
據《美國之音》報導，今年公開報導的「中共官員自殺事件」已經超過十起，跳樓自殺者居多。8月15號，中國廣東臺山安監局局長梅建敏，和中國湖南省汨羅市「雙規」人員徐向軍，都是跳樓身亡。
然而，大陸媒體在報導官員自殺的消息時，通常將自殺原因歸為官員精神壓力大、精神高度緊張，甚至有精神抑鬱等。報導引述「清華大學公共衛生研究中心」主任景軍教授的話指出，官員自殺原因毫無疑問包括腐敗、競爭等因素。
深圳獨立作家朱健國也指出，官員自殺的主要原因是因為「民主監督制度」不夠，當這些官員走上腐敗之路以後，東窗事發之前，他們選擇了自殺。
深圳獨立作家 朱健國：「現在這個刑訊逼供實際上是普遍的，他們自己心裡清楚，即使是雙規，裡面也有很多變相的刑訊逼供。所以他們覺得進去以後生不如死，他也知道法制不健全，所以帶來很多官員他要跳樓死。」
朱健國表示，沒有充分民主法制的制度，不僅民不聊生，官員也不聊生。因此，官員自殺是做困獸之鬥，朱健國希望社會來關注他們的死亡。
不過，據了解，中共官員自殺原因多以精神抑鬱為主，這是中共官場的潛規則，因為只要官員是「抑鬱自殺」，那麼，真正的死亡原因就會灰飛煙滅，完全被掩蓋住了。
採訪/朱智善 編輯/唐睿 後製/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.