From this recent article in The New York Times:
In the trial footage, General Xu explains that he refused the order as a matter of individual conscience and professional judgment. He tells judges that sending armed troops against civilians would lead to chaos and bloodshed, saying that a commander who carried out martial law poorly would go down as “a sinner in history.”
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General Xu was sentenced to five years in prison, and he died in 2021 at 85. Parts of his story surfaced in books and news reports. In 2011, he told a Hong Kong newspaper that he had no regrets about his decision.
Readers who are following the current controversy over U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific as well as the Pentagon's escalating investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly's participation in a video about the duty to disobey unlawful orders will find this account of Gen. Xu's case of interest.
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