Zhao funeral set for Saturday
28 January 2005
Ousted Communist Party Chairman Zhao Ziyang's funeral at Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery was finally set for Saturday, nearly two weeks after his death was announced. Up to 1,000 mourners are expected to attend, none of them members of the current leadership. The funeral was reportedly held up over disagreements over Zhao's official bio, which will apparently exclude reference to Zhao's "grave" errors in June 1989, as the government earlier insisted.