"No matter what the cost, we must get rid of this cancer!" In August 1992, in a border town in Yunnan, 3,000 armed police officers were fully armed and waiting in strict formation, following the instructions of their leaders.
This "cancerous tumor" in the mouth of the leaders is precisely "Pingyuan Street.", this town called "Pingyuan Street" is extraordinary, and this is an extralegal place comparable to the "Golden Triangle." Here, people take drug trafficking and arms trafficking as a matter of course, take illegal crimes as a means of getting rich, and even dare to call and openly provoke law enforcement personnel and create violent incidents on many occasions; in order to eliminate these criminals who disturb social order and threaten the people's safety, three thousand armed policemen marched toward "Pingyuan Street" with their guns on fire.
Pingyuan Street
However, this move of our army attracted the attention of the United States on the other side of the ocean, and the US side monitored from the military satellite that our personnel were heading toward the Sino-Vietnamese border in a mighty way, and they mistakenly thought that China and Vietnam were about to ignite a raging war, and they were suddenly panicked. So why did this town called "Pingyuan Street" develop into China's version of the "Golden Triangle"? Is the anti-narcotics operation of China's public security cadres and policemen smooth?
Walking on the road of Pingyuan Street, you will not hear the familiar sound of vegetables and fruits, the people who set up stalls here will never shout loudly to passers-by, only when they see foreigners and vehicles from other places, they will change the seriousness and fierceness on their faces, and pretend to be enthusiastic to come up and talk to you.
"Need goods?" Guaranteed to be pure! ”
"Is there a lot of goods?" Is the price negotiable? ”
"Good to discuss, then you come with me, our goods are all foreign goods, very pure!"
The "goods" in this conversation are not ordinary goods, and they are illegal drugs. According to the relevant provisions of China's Criminal Law, carrying and selling 50 grams of drugs can be punished by death, but in Pingyuan Street, it can be said that "every family hides drugs, and every household sells drugs", and the drugs hidden by each household far exceed 50 grams. So why did Pingyuan Street become a town full of drugs and crime? This has a lot to do with the location of Pingyuan Street, which is located on the border of Yunnan Province and Vietnam, less than 200 kilometers from the "Golden Triangle", which is famous for drug trafficking, making it easy to obtain drugs. In addition, as a combination of Wenshan and Yanshan, Pingyuan Street is an important market town, and there is an endless stream of people.
Drugs
It is precisely for this reason that in the early 1980s, some people resold gold, silver and obscene materials on Pingyuan Street and did some illegal and criminal things, coupled with the remote location of Pingyuan Street, the legal system management was relatively difficult, so illegal and criminal activities became more and more intense on the land of Pingyuan Street.
After the 1990s, Pingyuan Street has become an illegal settlement used by drug traffickers to hide, they use drugs smuggled from abroad to make rich profits, saying that there is only one disease in the world, that is, poor disease, many people in Pingyuan Street finally chose to ignore the law and embarked on the road of evil under the temptation of drug trafficking to make money quickly and make more money.
According to the investigation of the local public security bureau, there are 16 large drug trafficking syndicates in the three small villages of Tianxin, Molong and Songmaopo in Pingyuan Street, and it can be said that a large part of the people in Pingyuan Street are drug dealers. These drug dealers not only sell drugs locally, but also use various means to transport drugs to all parts of the country for sale, as many as 25 provinces and cities in China have found drugs from Pingyuan Street, so it seems that the scope of drug trafficking in Pingyuan Street has almost covered all parts of the country. With the ill-gotten gains from drug trafficking, this remote and backward township has built tall buildings, living standards have risen rapidly, and people have become more active in drug trafficking.
But drugs are not the only illegal "commodity" in Pingyuan Street, where guns and weapons are also sold very well. Zhang Ziqiang, a bandit who had kidnapped Li Ka-shing's son, described Pingyuan Street this way: "In this place, except for fighter jets, there are no other weapons.", which shows the seriousness of the situation of weapons trafficking in Pingyuan Street, so why does Pingyuan Street sell weapons? Speaking of which, this is closely related to drug trafficking.
Zhang Ziqiang
It turned out that the drug dealers in Pingyuan Street had all kinds of money intertwined in the process of drug trafficking, and in order to "protect" their own interests, the drug dealers began to form gangs, and weapons became the "commodities" that everyone urgently needed. At the beginning, the people of Pingyuan Street collected the guns left over from the local war against Vietnam for sale, but it was obvious that the supply exceeded demand, and under the impetus of huge interests, the sellers began to buy guns and weapons from abroad, and Pingyuan Street became a transit point for weapons trafficking. Since the 1990s, Pingyuan Street has become a large criminal bazaar that sells drugs and weapons.
All of a sudden, pingyuan street is smoky miasma, and the drugs flowing out of it have caused great harm to society and the people, and what is more serious is that due to the rapid development of the black industry, the violence in Pingyuan Street has increased day by day, and many gangsters have appeared, who are extremely rampant because they hold weapons, not only openly provoking law enforcement personnel, violently resisting law enforcement activities, and even daring to kill police officers.
On August 24, 1991, the anti-gun and anti-drug office of the Pingyuan Street Public Security Bureau received a provocative phone call, in which the criminals said with great arrogance: "We have just entered a batch of guns today, and we want to test guns at night, don't panic!" And this provocative call came from the rampant bandits in Pingyuan Street.
As early as the 1980s, China had not yet popularized private cars, and criminals in Pingyuan Street dared to steal and sell official cars for money. The police car under the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau was stolen, and finally sold to Cangzhou, Hebei Province by the criminals of Pingyuan Street, not only the police car, but even the field communication vehicle of the 19th Army of Yunnan Province was also stolen by the criminals of Pingyuan Street, and finally through consultation with the local public security bureau, it cost 20,000 yuan to redeem it. However, the theft of public cars was only the beginning of the challenge of the police by the Pingyuan Street bandits, who also openly used violence to resist law enforcement and even dared to kill the police.
In view of the continuous development of the black industry in Pingyuan Street, the nearby public security bureau also paid attention to it and took many measures against the criminal acts on Pingyuan Street, but it was strongly resisted by the rioters on Pingyuan Street. In June 1987, when a policeman from the Yanshan County Public Security Bureau came to Songmaopo on Pingyuan Street to handle the case, he was besieged and beaten by 100 thugs. On December 30, 1989, in order to rob their fellow party members, dozens of Pingyuan Street thugs rushed into the public security bureau with grenades, injured more than a dozen policemen, then burned the case file, abducted five detained criminals, and then fled.
In 1992, this group of Pingyuan Street thugs even created the "Jin Shouping Incident", which caused a sensation, and on March 30 of that year, Comrade Jin Shouping, then secretary of the Wenshan Political Committee, led Comrade Wang Mingliang, a cadre of the Provincial Ethnic Affairs Committee, and several public security cadres and policemen to Pingyuan Street to arrest the criminals. Deeply aware of the extreme viciousness of the mob on Pingyuan Street, Comrade Jin Shouping specially reminded the people around him: "Everyone understands the particularity of this village, the criminals here are all asking for money and not lives, everyone must pay attention to safety, be careful!" Then with Comrade Wang Mingliang in front, with a few cadres and policemen to the criminal's downstairs, to the downstairs only to see the door closed, what is confusing is that after hearing the police's shouts, the people inside did not panic and wait for the opportunity to escape, but were quiet.
Mansion on Pingyuan Street
So the crowd carefully stepped into the house along the root of the wall, and just at this moment, the thug suddenly threw out a grenade, which was accurately thrown at the feet of Comrade Jin Shouping, because the incident happened too suddenly, Comrade Jin Shouping did not have time to lie down, the grenade exploded, and in a flash of time, there was a loud noise, and the whole building burst into flames. The officers reacted quickly in surprise, found a bunker, and counterattacked the criminals with pistols, but the other side, with the weapons and ammunition in their hands, frantically returned fire on the policemen, and after a long time, the dense gunfire gradually subsided. The cadres and policemen finally found Comrade Jin Shouping and Comrade Wang Mingliang in a sea of fire, and the two had unfortunately been killed by the bombing. This tragic incident could not help but arouse the anger of law enforcement officers, who knew that if no more forceful measures were taken, the rioters would only become more and more rampant. In fact, according to the statistics of the Public Security Bureau, from 1980 to 1987, there were as many as 31 violent rejections of the law in Pingyuan Street, but in 1988 alone, there were 42 cases, and then it exploded, and as many as 130 cases a year in 1991.
Therefore, the Ministry of Public Security of Yunnan Province reported to the Central Political and Legal Commission the serious problem of violence in Pingyuan Street, and the central authorities also believed that "the problem of Pingyuan Street has reached the point where it must be solved." It immediately set up a special working group and decided to carry out a large-scale strike-hard operation to carry out a thorough crackdown on the criminal and evil forces in Pingyuan Street.
As the saying goes, know thyself, win every battle, the leader of the Public Security Department decided to first conduct a more detailed investigation of the situation in Pingyuan Street after receiving the task, although there is psychological preparation, but the results of the investigation still make the cadres and policemen feel a little surprised, the drug trafficking in Ping'an Street seems to be as casual as selling vegetables in the vegetable market, and the weapons sold are even more dazzling, not only organic guns, submachine guns, automatic rifles, and even various weapons with great lethality such as cloud bombs and grenades, in addition to blatant criminal violations, In Pingyuan Street, many residents believe in the slogan of "go to jail for a while, be happy for a lifetime, kill me alone, and be happy for a generation", as long as they can make money, these residents can kill people and set fires and do evil things. In addition, the public security officers also learned from the old cadres and policemen that Pingyuan Street was a gathering area for ethnic minorities during the Ming Dynasty, so the criminals here like to attack the enemy in groups, which is very difficult to deal with.
These investigation results are telling the cadres and policemen that it is by no means a simple task to eradicate the criminals in Pingyuan Street, but in the face of heavy arrest pressure and many difficulties, the armed police and public security personnel have not flinched, and they know that for the sake of society and the people, they must eradicate the tumor of "Pingyuan Street" at all costs.
On August 26, the secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee held a secret meeting to finalize the "Strike Hard Plan." Under the instructions of the Provincial Party Committee, the provincial public security leaders at all levels were urgently deployed, and a strike-hard operation to eliminate the bandits was about to begin.
Public security personnel assemble
At 7:00 a.m. on August 31, two red smoke bombs rose in the air, like two red sharp blades, cutting through the sky, and the "Pingyuan Street Strike Hard" operation officially began.
As soon as they received the signal, 3,000 public security officers immediately scattered and ran toward Pingyuan Street with live ammunition. Subsequently, the armed police quickly surrounded the nearly 200-kilometer boundary line of Pingyuan Street, strictly controlled all entrances and exits of Pingyuan Street, and set up cards to intercept them. In the highland area, the armed police have carried out heavy firepower arrangements, and fully armed armed police have also been arranged to patrol back and forth on hillsides and country roads to prevent criminals from escaping from the trails.
Forced by the pressure of the police "road fire blockade, trail patrol back and forth, and heavy punches in the town", many criminals could not withstand the psychological pressure and chose to surrender voluntarily, including Lin Hongyu, who was known as the "Female Gun King of Pingyuan Street", who also voluntarily handed in more than a hundred guns when she surrendered.
"Pingyuan Street" battle scene
Due to the proper deployment, the police force eradication operation is like a bamboo, but considering that if a comprehensive military crackdown is carried out in Pingyuan Street, the guards will inevitably fall into the danger of being counterattacked by the other side, and it is easy to cause bad influences at home and abroad. After discussion, the command decided to change the plan and transform the armed police force into a drug squad, going door-to-door to publicize the dangers of drugs and the government's tolerant policies.
This policy of tolerance, which is carried out under strong military oppression, has proved to be very effective. Some hidden drug dealers chose to surrender themselves under the trade-off, took the initiative to pay the hidden drugs, and some family members looked around in order to reduce the punishment of the drug dealers, and when they found them, they persuaded them to give up resistance and voluntarily surrendered.
During the 81-day strike-hard operation, the police arrested a total of 854 criminals, seized nearly 1 ton of drugs, seized more than 1,000 guns and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as many weapons, confiscated more than 10 million yuan of illegal gambling funds, and 22 war criminals, including Lin Hong'en, Ma Huichun, and Sha Guozhu, who committed the most heinous crimes, were taken to the execution ground for public execution. Our police fought a beautiful battle in Pingyuan! ”
After the end of the strike-hard operation, the relevant personnel carried out a long-term rectification of Pingyuan Street, and finally restored the normal law and order of Pingyuan Street, and the residents gradually returned to normal life, but the anti-drug police who died in the strike-hard operation could no longer see this scene.
Today's Pingyuan Street is known as the "first town of Wenshan", gdp has greatly increased, people no longer get involved in drugs, but rely on their own industrious hands to live an increasingly rich life, the streets wash away the smoke miasma, the faces of residents have raised a happy smile, the former Pingyuan Street has been transformed, but people will never forget the armed police who sacrificed for Ping An Street, it is they who exchanged their fresh lives for today's new life.
The labor scene of the people of Pingyuan Street
According to statistics, every year in our country there will be hundreds of anti-drug police in the process of law enforcement unfortunately sacrificed, and even encountered the murderous torture of drug dealers, in these anti-drug police, the largest is 68 years old, the youngest is only 18 years old, they in order to protect the tranquility of this society, in order to make the streets and alleys no longer appear by the young people corroded by drugs, paid their precious lives, some even after the sacrifice can not leave their names, for fear of wives and children exposing their identities, by the drug traffickers crazy retaliation, But in the face of the viciousness of drug traffickers, they have never retreated and have always bravely guarded the tranquility of society.
Where there are good years in the world, it is just that someone is carrying the weight for you, and the only thing we can do is to stay away from drugs and cherish the peace and pure land that heroes have exchanged for blood and life.