【新唐人2013年11月16日讯】有人说，现今的中国，是一个善于遗忘的国度。但也有这样一批人，拒绝遗忘。四川老人李盛照就是其中一个。他在监狱里度过了20年最为珍贵的青春年华，出狱后仍继续追求那一段不被中共当局承认的历史真相。当法院开庭审判他时，他说：“我不是被告而是原告﹔我控告饿死四川1000万人的罪恶。”今年11月11号下午5点，老人因脑溢血逝世，享年83岁。这位身刻“大饥荒”伤痕的倔老头，他的生平故事，再次被外界关注。
“越反抗越打压，越打压越反抗”，这是李盛照老人一生的写照。他被不同的人冠以“中国脊梁”、“中国良心”、“疯子”等各种称呼，而他自称“倔老头”。
去年5月，《南方人物周刊》刊文《倔强的“大饥荒”上书者》，介绍了李盛照。大饥荒发生在上个世纪的中叶。大饥荒结束至今已经50年了。
回顾这一生，李盛照说，自己始终没有消沉的情感。他的故事，从上世纪50年代开始。考上“四川大学”经济系的李盛照，在1957年中共的所谓言论“春天”中，痛斥斯大林为封建暴君，于是被打成“极右份子”﹔被遣送回乡后，他又成了一名“大饥荒”的上书者。
原四川成都市政府工业局一秘书彭慕陶：“毛泽东57年的整风运动，他（李盛照）提了一些意见，现在看来都是正确的。他是学经济的，根据经济的原理，按照正常规律进行的生产指导。也提了一些关于苏修的问题，这样一来就被划成右派。”
1958年，李盛照在四川德昌看到为炼钢铁抽空劳动力、烧光树林的荒诞，也看到了路边饿得哭泣的小姑娘。1961年，他在被押送回家的火车上，饿死人的消息不绝于耳。
于是，一回到家，他就到各个生产队调查。写了3篇报告。作为一个右派分子，李盛照自然知道他反映意见的危险，但他把报告抄了一遍又一遍，从地方到中央领导人，一封又一封的往外寄。
他收到了时任国务院副总理的邓子恢回信，被告知已将信件转交给当时的西南局书记李井泉。谁知，这封信成了李盛照入狱的通行证。
1962年3月，李盛照被绑架劳教。1964年9月，他被正式逮捕。
当第一次审判以15年有期徒刑判决时，李盛照坚持上诉，这招来更严厉的打压，他被处以20年有期徒刑。
李盛照戴着手铐和28斤的脚镣，在一间小监里待了7年。在那些幽闭的日子里，他写道：“为民请命痴愚笨，吊民伐罪抓祸首。我洒热血荒山野，正气天地就长留。”
四川老人李盛照难友刘光泽：“他到晚年的最近这10年，脑壳就已经有一点不好，远远关了7年半的黑牢、独居黑牢，而且脚镣手铐，那简直是没法用言语形容。73年退出来的时候，精神症状就逐渐加重，言语说不清楚。罄竹难书，共产党的罪恶。”
1980年，他刚获得平反。已经50岁的李盛照，人生似乎才刚刚开始。他将第一次参加工作，第一次恋爱。但是，他没有忘记这个国度经历过的伤痕。
彭慕陶：“他认为对的东西他就坚持到底，一直坚持。受了很多迫害。我们和他是难友，很多都很支持他，很敬仰他。我也给他帮忙，找了个姓谢的女同志，给他拍了电视记录片。”
在出狱后的30年里，他一次又一次向法院索要他那些被没收的书信和手稿，却举步维艰。
而昔日同学似乎大多善于遗忘，纷纷表示对李盛照的话题不感兴趣。对他们而言，安度晚年才是最好的选择。就连他的妻子都无法理解，费时、费劲、费钱去调查这些事是为了什么。
但是，李盛照丝毫不在意别人的看法，他说他就是要做反抗者！他生前的大部分时间，都是在书桌上静静书写着。他对妻子说，他死后，这些文字不要扔掉。他相信会有人找到这些文字，看到这段嵌入个人生命的民族历史，也看到他一生的反抗。
采访/易如 编辑/王子琦 后制/李勇
A Story About a Tenacious Old Man Li Shengzhao
Someone said, today’s China is an oblivious country.
However, there is a group of people refusing to forget.
Mr Li Shengzhao, an old man from Sichuan Province,
is one of them.
He was confined to prison for 20 years of his
most precious time as a youth.
After jail, he had continued his search for the historical truth,
which is denied by the Chinese Communist Party Authorities.
When he was trialled in court he said,
“I am not a defendantbut rather a plaintiff.
I am suing the crime of 10 million people dying of hunger
in the Sichuan Province area."
5pm of November 11, the old man died of cerebral
apoplexy when he was the ripe old age of 83.
The tenacious old man, imprinted with the scar of the Great
Famine, is again highlighted for his unusual personal story.
The saying goes, “The more resistance causes more suppression,
the more suppression triggers stronger resistance".
This expression truly describes Mr Li Shengzhao’s
lifetime of experience.
He is entitled to the citizenship “Chinese Spine", “the Conscience
of China", “Mad Man" and so on, by various people, though
he called himself “a tenacious old man".
May of last year, Southern People’s Weekly
published an article titled “A Tenacious Appealer
for the Great Famine", introducing Mr Li Shengzhao.
The Great Famine took place in the middle of the last century,
spanning 50 years since its demise.
When looking back on his lifetime, Mr Li said, he himself
has never had a depressed feeling,
In 1957, when Mr Li was a college student of
Economics Department of Sichuan University,
he was identified as a “Extreme Rightist" due to his
statement that Stalin was a feudal tyrant during
his Speech “Spring" Movement.
He was escorted to his hometown only to then
become an appealer for the Great Famine.
Peng Mutao, ex-secretary of the Industry Bureau of Chengdu
Municipal Government of Sichuan Province says,
“Mao Zedong launched the Rectification Movement in 1957,
and he (Li) gave some comments, which now prove correct.
He was studying economics in College. According to the principles
of economics, he advised the production should be instructed
by the common economic rules,
as well as some comments about the Soviet Union.
It was at this moment that he became identified as a rightist."
In 1958, Li Shengzhao had witnessed in Dechang County
of Sichuan Province,
producing steel and iron had imposed upon all local labour forces
and consumed all of the trees.
He also saw a little girl crying on the road side
due to extreme hunger.
In 1961 when he was escorted to his hometown by train,
he heard a lot of news about people dying of hunger.
Therefore, once back home, he conducted his own investigation
in to the many rural farm production villages.
He wrote three reports.
As a rightist, Li knew the dangers of sending out such letters,
describing the real situation in rural areas.
However, he transcribed the reports repeatedly, sending
them to local and central governments via mail.
He received a reply from Deng Zihui, Deputy Premier of
State Council,
stating that the letter and reports had been transferred to Li Jingquan,
the CCP head of Southwest China.
However, the reply later became Li’s Shengzhao’s
unfortunate prison sentence.
In March of 1962, Li Shengzhao was sentenced to re-education.
In September 1964, he was officially arrested.
He was initially sentenced to a jail term of 15 years.
Li Shengzhao insisted on appealing this, which
later became an even harsher punishment.
He was eventually sentenced to a jail term of 20 years.
With handcuffs and 14 kilogram shackles, Li was confined
to a small cell for a total of 7 years.
During his confinement he wrote the words,
“I appeal for the people, but am looked upon as a fool.
I show concern for the people and questioned the
government, yet am punished as a criminal.
I can sacrifice myself and die in the wild,
but the uprightness will forever remain in this world."
Li’s fellow sufferer Liu Guangze says, “During the past decade,
his brain is not so good, a result I feel coming
from his seven and a half years’ confinement
in a small prison cell with nothing but handcuffs and shackles.
This is beyond all words.
When he was finally released in 1973,
his mental state gradually worsened, he could
barely speak a clear word.
All of these sufferings are difficult to describe yet they are
all the misdeeds of CCP."
In 1980 at the age of 50, he was redeemed with fame.
From that time on did his life then truly start.
He worked for the country for the first time,
and fell in love for the first time.
However, he could not forget the scars left by the nation.
Peng Mutao says, “He insisted on what he thinks was right
without compromise, he even suffered a lot for his insistence.
Many of us were his fellow sufferers,
supported him and admired him.
I also did him a favour by introducing Ms Xie
to make a TV documentary of him."
30 year after his time in prison, he repeatedly requested the
return of his confiscated letters and reports
again and again, but to no avail.
Most of his past fellow students were absent-minded and did not
really understand Li Shengzhao, saying they were
not interested in his topics and stories.
For them, to live a secure retirement life was the best choice.
Even his wife could not understand his actions.
She did not know what he pursued nor why he spent so
much of his time, effort and
money investigating these past things.
But, Mr Li Shengzhao did not care to others’ views. He said,
he was determined to be a protester!
Most of his lifetime he silently wrote something on his desk.
He told his wife, after my death,
these texts cannot be thrown away.
He believes someone will look for these texts,
which reflect a nation’s history embedded with his personal life,
and his personal rebellion during his lifetime.
Interview/YiRu Edit/WangZiqi Post-Production/LiYong
