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demeriting of BGC commander Major General Liu Fengjun and BGC political commissar Major General Yang Huichuan, who were then replaced by He Daoquan and Zhang Baokang. Additionally, the commander and political commissar of the Third Guards Division, as well as the commander of the 12th Regiment and all battalion commanders and instructors under his command, were dismissed while several military officials of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, and the Beijing Garrison Headquarters and Political Department were punished. In total, about 60 military officials were punished, demerited, or dismissed as a consequence of the shooting.
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resort to violence against him. This incident prompted superiors to suspend Tian from duty for self-reflection and decide to reorganize the regiment. Dissatisfied with this decision, Tian clashed with company-level leadership and was instructed by regiment-level leadership to return home and engage in farming. Subsequently, Tian committed the shooting in the regimental area, hijacked a vehicle to the city, and later sparked a shooting incident at Jianguomen.
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Furthermore, the Third Guards Division of the Beijing Garrison was transferred from Beijing to a remote border post, and a general order was issued to the entire army by the Central Military Commission Headquarters to strictly carry out weaponry management system and to strengthen ideological work.
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By then, thousands of police were rushing to the scene and tried to apprehend the gunman. They were unable to do so, as Tian was an experienced and excellent marksman. Police surrounded Tian at Yabao Road and engaged in a gun battle with him, in which an undisclosed number of officers were killed,
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and killed the regimental political commissar on the drill ground. He also killed three other military officials who were trying to stop him and injured at least ten more before fleeing the military base. While his fellow soldiers were ordered to change into civilian clothing under orders to not
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According the article, Tian Mingjian was once exposed for accepting bribes and subsequently demoted to the position of deputy platoon leader in the regiment. During his tenure in the regiment, a soldier clashed with Tian after his request for leave to visit relatives was denied, leading Tian to
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Due to the investigation, the commander of the Beijing Military Region, Lieutenant General Li Laizhu, and its political commissar, Lieutenant General Gu Shanqing, were given serious warnings as a disciplinary sanction and serious demerits within the party. It also resulted in the dismissal and
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At 7:20 a.m., when approaching a red light in Jianguomen, the driver crashed his vehicle into a tree and tried to escape. Tian killed him, jumped out of the car and started to shoot people at random while making his way towards the embassy district. He thus killed 17 civilians, including
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province, where strong traditional values emphasize having a male child, Tian secretly planned on having a son until someone in the army revealed his plan and the birth control officer forced his wife to have an abortion. By then, his wife was already seven months pregnant and died during the
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and a number of passers-by hit by bullets. A bus was also caught in the line of fire when the driver in panic stopped his vehicle, resulting in more casualties. Eventually heavy police fire forced Tian to flee into a dead end, where he was killed by a sniper.
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When Canadian television began to report live about the shooting at the embassy district, satellite transmission was immediately turned off by the Chinese government and further reporting, including on-site interviews, were prohibited.
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The exact number of casualties remains unknown, though in the immediate aftermath 14 people were reported dead, and 72 others wounded, many of them so severely that doctors expected the death toll to rise to 40 or 50. The newspaper
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to conduct a thorough review of the incident. The investigation was organized by the People's Liberation Army's General Staff Headquarters and the General Political Department and headed by
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It was reported that Tian had a quarrel with his superiors because they had forced his wife to have an abortion when she was pregnant with their second child, in accordance with China's
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reported on 7 December the same year that 15 people were killed, among them six servicemen, and 60 others were wounded. Most of his victims were shot in the head or chest.
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Others were awarded for their handling of the shooting, among them an official who directed Tian's interception and the sharpshooter who killed the gunman.
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Case of soldier shooting people in Beijing results in stepping down of commander and political commissar of Beijing Garrison Garrison Command,
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diplomat and his son, along with up to 11 soldiers and policemen were killed before Tian was finally shot dead by a police or military sniper.
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disturb the public when searching for the deserter, Tian hijacked a jeep and headed towards Beijing. Other reports stated he boarded a bus.
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operation along with the unborn fetus (later discovered to be a boy). He had also been disciplined for beating another soldier.
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Yousef Mohammadi Pishknari and his 9-year-old son, while another of Pishknari's sons and his daughter were wounded.
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Beijing Garrison Commander, Political Commissar Dismissed in the Wake of Jianguomen Shooting Incident,
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Tian Mingjian first killed his officer and several other soldiers at his military base in
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Shortly after the shooting, the Beijing Garrison Command (BGC) was ordered by the
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In an article published in Xiangchao(《湘潮》),a magazine sponsored by the
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Handbook of Research on Mass Shootings and Multiple Victim Violence
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of the perpetrator's second child, leading to the death of his wife
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39°54′26″N 116°25′46″E / 39.9071°N 116.4295°E / 39.9071; 116.4295
Mass murder
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Type 81 assault rifle
forced abortion
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People's Liberation Army
First Lieutenant
Tongxian County
Jianguomen
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3rd Guard Division
PLA Beijing Garrison
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