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Dec 23, 2004
Presented
by EPOCH TIMES
(Updated: January 4, 2005)
Commentaries
on the Communist Party - Part 7
On
the Chinese Communist Party's History of Killing
This is the seventh of Nine Commentaries
on the Communist Party. Copied
here in September 2011
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This poster, displayed in late 1966
in Beijing, shows how to deal with a so-called "enemy of the people" during
the Cultural Revolution. (Jean Vincent/AFP/Getty Images) |
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The 55-year history of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) is written with blood and lies. The stories behind this bloody
history are both extremely tragic and rarely known. Under the rule of the
CCP, 60 to 80 million innocent Chinese people have been killed, leaving
their broken families behind. Many people wonder why the CCP kills. While
the CCP continues its brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and
recently suppressed protesting crowds in Hanyuan with gunshots, people
wonder whether they will ever see the day when the CCP will learn to speak
with words rather than guns.
Mao Zedong summarized the purpose of
the Cultural Revolution, "...after the chaos the world reaches peace, but
in 7 or 8 years, the chaos needs to happen again." [1] In other words,
there should be a political revolution every 7 or 8 years and a crowd of
people needs to be killed every 7 or 8 years.
A supporting ideology and practical
requirements lie behind the CCP's slaughters.
Ideologically, the CCP believes in the
"dictatorship of the proletariat" and "continuous revolution under the
dictatorship of the proletariat." Therefore, after the CCP took over China,
it killed the landowners to resolve problems with production relationships
in rural areas. It killed the capitalists to reach the goal of commercial
and industrial reform and solve the production relationships in the cities.
After these two classes were eliminated, the problems related to the economic
base were basically solved. Similarly, solving the problems related to
the superstructure [2] also called for slaughter. The suppressions of the
Hu Feng Anti-Party Group [3] and the Anti-Rightists Movement eliminated
the intellectuals. Killing the Christians, Taoists, Buddhists and popular
folk groups solved the problem of religions. Mass murders during the Cultural
Revolution established, culturally and politically, the CCP's absolute
leadership. The Tiananmen Square massacre was used to prevent political
crisis and squelch democratic demands. The persecution of Falun Gong is
meant to resolve the issues of belief and traditional healing. These actions
were all necessary for the CCP to strengthen its power and maintain its
rule in the face of continual financial crisis (prices for consumer goods
skyrocketed after the CCP took power and China's economy almost collapsed
after the Cultural Revolution), political crisis (some people not following
the Party's orders or some others wanting to share political rights with
the Party) and crisis of belief (the disintegration of the former Soviet
Union, political changes in Eastern Europe, and the Falun Gong issue).
Except for the Falun Gong issue, almost all the foregoing political movements
were utilized to revive the evil specter of the CCP and incite its desire
for revolution. The CCP also used these political movements to test CCP
members, eliminating those who did not meet the Party's requirements.
Killing is also necessary for practical
reasons. The Communist Party began as a group of thugs and scoundrels who
killed to obtain power. Once this precedent was set, there was no going
back. Constant terror was needed to intimidate people and force them to
accept, out of fear, the absolute rule of the CCP.
On the surface, it may appear that the
CCP was "forced to kill," and that various incidents just happened to irritate
the CCP evil specter and accidentally trigger CCP's killing mechanism.
In truth, these incidents serve to disguise the Party's need to kill, and
periodical killing is required by the CCP. Without these painful lessons,
people might begin to think the CCP was improving and start to demand democracy,
just as those idealistic students in the 1989 democratic movement did.
Recurring slaughter every 7 or 8 years serves to refresh people's memory
of terror and can warn the younger generation - whoever works against the
CCP, wants to challenge the CCP's absolute leadership, or attempts to tell
the truth regarding China's history, will get a taste of the "iron fist
of the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Killing has become one of the most essential
ways for the CCP to maintain power. With the escalation of its bloody debts,
laying down its butcher knife would encourage people to take vengeance
for the CCP's criminal acts. Therefore, the CCP not only needed to conduct
copious and thorough killing, but the slaughter also had to be done in
a most brutal fashion to effectively intimidate the populace, especially
early on when the CCP was establishing its rule.
Since the purpose of the killing was
to instill the greatest terror, the CCP selected targets for destruction
arbitrarily and irrationally. In every political movement, the CCP used
the strategy of genocide. Take the "suppression of reactionaries" as an
example. The CCP did not really suppress the reactionary "behaviors" but
the "people" whom they called the reactionaries. If one had been enlisted
and served a few days in the Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) army but did
absolutely nothing political after the CCP gained power, this person would
still be killed because of his "reactionary history." In the process of
land reform, in order to remove the "root of the problem," the CCP often
killed a landowner's entire family.
Since 1949, the CCP has persecuted more
than half the people in China. An estimated 60 million to 80 million people
died from unnatural causes. This number exceeds the total number of deaths
in both World Wars combined.
As with other communist countries, the
wanton killing done by the CCP also includes brutal slayings of its own
members in order to remove dissidents who value a sense of humanity over
the Party nature. The CCP's rule of terror falls equally on the populace
and its members in an attempt to maintain an "invincible fortress."
In a normal society, people show care
and love for one another, hold life in awe and veneration and give thanks
to God. In the East, people say, "Do not impose on others what you would
not want done to yourself [4]." In the West, people say, "Love thy neighbor
as thyself [5]." Conversely, the CCP holds that "The history of all hitherto
existing society is the history of class struggles [6]." In order to keep
alive the "struggles" within society, hatred must be generated. Not only
does the CCP take lives, it encourages people to kill each other. It strives
to desensitize people towards others' suffering by surrounding them with
constant killing. It wants them to become numb from frequent exposure to
inhumane brutality, and develop the mentality that "the best you can hope
for is to avoid being persecuted." All these lessons taught by brutal suppression
enable the CCP to maintain its rule.
In addition to the destruction of countless
lives, the CCP also destroyed the soul of the Chinese people. A great many
people have become conditioned to react to the CCP's threats by entirely
surrendering their reason and their principles. In a sense, these people's
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Before the CCP was in power, Mao Zedong
wrote, "We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries
and towards the reactionary activities of the reactionary classes [7]."
In other words, even before the CCP took over Beijing, it had already made
up its mind to act tyrannically under the euphemism of the "People's Democratic
Dictatorship." The following are a few examples.
Suppression of the Reactionaries and
Land Reform
In March 1950, the CCP announced "Orders
to Strictly Suppress Reactionary Elements," which is historically known
as the movement of "suppression of the reactionaries."
Unlike all the emperors who granted
amnesty to the entire country after they were crowned, the CCP started
killing the minute it gained power. Mao Zedong said in a document, "There
are still many places where people are intimidated and dare not kill the
reactionaries openly in a large scale [8]." In February 1951, the central
CCP said that except for Zhejiang province and southern Anhui province,
"other areas which are not killing enough, especially in the large and
mid-sized cities, should continue to arrest and kill a large number and
should not stop too soon." Mao even recommended that "in rural areas, to
kill the reactionaries, there should be over 1/1000 of the total population
killed...in the cities, it should be less than 1/1000. [9]" The population
of China at that time was approximately 600 million; this "royal order"
from Mao would have caused at least 600,000 deaths. Nobody knows where
this ratio of 1/1000 came from. Perhaps on a whim, Mao decided these 600,000
lives should be enough to lay the foundation for creating fear among the
people, and thus ordered it to happen.
Whether those killed deserved to die
was not the CCP's concern. "The People's Republic of China Regulations
for Punishing the Reactionaries," announced in 1951 even said that those
who "spread rumors" can be "immediately executed."
While the suppression of reactionaries
was being hotly implemented, land reform was also taking place on a large
scale. In fact, the CCP had already started land reform within its occupied
areas in the late 1920s. On the surface, land reform appeared to advocate
an ideal similar to that of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping [10], namely,
all would have land to farm, but it was really just an excuse to kill.
Tao Zhu, who ranked 4th in the CCP afterwards, had a slogan for land reform:
"Every village bleeds, every household fights," indicating that in every
village the landowners must die.
Land reform could have been achieved
without killing. It could have been done in the same way as the Taiwanese
government implemented its land reform by purchasing the property from
the landowners. However, as the CCP originated in a group of thugs and
lumpen proletariat, it only knew how to rob. Fearing it might suffer revenge
after robbing, the CCP naturally needed to kill the victims, stamping out
the source of trouble.
The most common way to kill during the
land reform was known as the "struggle meeting." The CCP fabricated crimes
and charged the landowners or rich farmers. The public was asked how they
should be punished. Some CCP members or activists were already planted
in the crowd to shout "We should kill them!" and the landowners and rich
peasants were then executed on the spot. At that time, whoever owned land
in the villages was classified as a "bully." Those who often took advantage
of the peasants were called "mean bullies;" those who often helped with
repairing public facilities and donated money to schools and for natural
disaster relief were called "kind bullies;" and those who did nothing were
called "still or silent bullies." A classification like this was meaningless,
because all the "bullies" ended up being executed right away regardless
of what "bully" category they belonged to.
By the end of 1952, the CCP-published
number of the executed "reactionary elements" was about 2.4 million. Actually,
the total death toll of former KMT government officials below the county
level and landowners was at least 5 million.
The suppression of the reactionaries
and land reform had three direct results.
First,
former local officials who had been selected through clan-based autonomy
were eliminated. Through suppressing the reactionaries and land reform,
the CCP killed all the management personnel in the previous system and
realized complete control of rural areas by installing a Party branch in
each village.
Second,
a huge amount of wealth was obtained by stealing and robbing during the
land reform and suppression of reactionaries.
Third,
civilians were terrorized by the brutal suppression against the landowners
and rich farmers.
The "Three Anti Campaign" and "Five Anti
Campaign"
The suppression of reactionaries and
the land reform mainly targeted the countryside, while the subsequent "Three
Anti Campaign" and "Five Anti Campaign" could be regarded as the corresponding
genocide in cities.
The "Three Anti Campaign" began in December
1951 and targeted corruption, waste and bureaucracy among the CCP cadres.
Some corrupt CCP officials were executed. Soon afterwards, the CCP attributed
the corruption of its government officials to the temptation by capitalists.
Accordingly, the "Five Anti Campaign" against bribery, tax evasion, theft
of state property, jerry-building, and espionage of state economic information
was launched in January 1952.
The "Five Anti Campaign" was essentially
stealing capitalists' property or rather murdering the capitalists for
their money. Chen Yi, the mayor of Shanghai at that time, was debriefed
on the sofa with a cup of tea in hand every night. He would ask leisurely,
"How many paratroopers are there today?" meaning, "How many businessmen
jumped out of high buildings to commit suicide?" None of the capitalists
could escape the "Five Anti Campaign." They were required to pay taxes
"evaded" as early as the Guangxu Period (1875-1908) in the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911) when the Shanghai commercial market was initially established.
The capitalists could not possibly afford to pay such "taxes" even with
all their fortunes. They had no other choice but to end their lives, but
they didn't dare to jump into the Huangpu River. If their bodies could
not be found, the CCP would accuse them of fleeing to Hong Kong, and their
family members would still be held responsible for the taxes. The capitalists
instead jumped from tall buildings, leaving a corpse so that the CCP could
see proof of their death. It was said that people didn't dare to walk next
to tall buildings in Shanghai at that time in fear of being crushed by
people jumping from above.
According to Facts of the Political
Campaigns after the Founding of the People's Republic of China co-edited
by four government units including the CCP History Research Center in 1996,
during the "Three Anti Campaign" and "Five Anti Campaign," more than 323,100
people were arrested and over 280 committed suicide or disappeared. In
the "Anti-Hu Fang campaign" in 1955, over 5000 were incriminated, over
500 were arrested, over 60 committed suicide, and 12 died from unnatural
causes. In the subsequent suppression of the reactionaries, over 21,300
people were executed, and over 4,300 committed suicide or disappeared [11].
The Great Famine
The highest death toll was recorded
during China's Great Famine shortly after the Great Leap Forward. [12]
The article "Great Famine" in the book Historical Records of the People's
Republic of China states, "The number of unnatural deaths and reduced
births from 1959 to 1961 is estimated at about 40 million...China's depopulation
by 40 million is likely to be the world's greatest famine in this century."
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The Great Famine was falsely labeled
a "Three-Year Natural Disaster" by the CCP. In fact, those three years
had favorable weather conditions without any massive natural disasters
like flooding, drought, hurricane, tsunami, earthquake, frost, freeze,
hail or plague of locusts. The "disaster" was entirely caused by man. The
Great Leap Forward campaign required everyone in China to become involved
in steel-making, forcing farmers to leave their crops to rot in the field.
Despite this, officials in every region escalated their claims on production
yields. He Yiran, the First Secretary of the Party Committee of Liuzhou
Prefecture, fabricated all by himself the shocking yield of "65,000 kilograms
of paddy rice per mu [14]" in Huanjiang County. This was right after
the Lushan Plenum when the CCP's anti-rightist movement spread out to the
entire country. In order to demonstrate that the CCP was correct all the
time, the crops were expropriated by the government as a form of taxation
according to these exaggerated yields. Consequently, the grain rations,
seeds and staple foods of the peasants were all confiscated. When the demand
still could not be met, the peasants were accused of hiding their crops.
He Yiran once said that they must strive
to get first place in the competition for highest yield no matter how many
people in Liuzhou would die. Some peasants were deprived of everything,
with only some handfuls of rice left hidden in the urine basin. The Party
Committee of Xunle District, Huanjiang County even issued an order to forbid
cooking, preventing the peasants from eating the crops. Patrols were conducted
by militiamen at night. If they saw light from a fire, they would proceed
with a search and raid. Many peasants did not even dare to cook edible
wild herbs or bark, and died of starvation.
Historically, in times of famine, the
government would provide rice porridge, distribute the crops and allow
victims to flee from the famine. The CCP, however, regarded fleeing from
the famine as a disgrace to the Party's prestige, and ordered militiamen
to block roadways to prevent victims from escaping the famine. When the
peasants were so hungry as to snatch cereals from the grain depots, the
CCP ordered shooting at the crowd to suppress the looting and labeled those
killed as counter-revolutionary elements. A great number of peasants were
starved to death in many provinces including Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Anhui,
Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Guangxi provinces. Still, the hungry peasants
were forced to take part in irrigation work, dam construction, and steel-making.
Many dropped to the ground while working and never got up again. At the
end, those who survived had no strength to bury the dead. Many villages
died out completely as families starved to death one after another.
In the most serious famines in China's
history prior to the CCP, there were cases in which families exchanged
one another's children to eat, but nobody ever ate his own children. Under
the CCP's reign, however, people were driven to eat those who died, cannibalize
those who fled from other regions, and even kill and eat their own children.
The writer Sha Qing depicted this scene in his book Yi Xi Da Di Wan
( An Obscure Land of Bayou ): In a peasant's family, a father was
left with only his son and daughter during the Great Famine. One day, the
daughter was driven out of the house by her father. When she came back,
she could not find her younger brother, but saw white oil floating in the
cauldron and a pile of bones next to the stove. Several days later, the
father added more water to the pot, and called his daughter to come closer.
The girl was frightened, and pleaded with her father from outside the door,
"Daddy, please don't eat me. I can collect firewood and cook food for you.
If you eat me, nobody else will do this for you."
The final extent and number of tragedies
like this is unknown. Yet the CCP misrepresented them as a noble honor,
claimed that the CCP was leading people bravely to fight the "natural disasters"
and continued to tout itself as "great, glorious and correct."
After the Lushan Plenum was held in
1959, General Peng Dehuai [15] was stripped of his power for speaking out
for the people. A group of government officials and cadres who dared to
speak the truth were dismissed from their posts, detained or investigated.
After that, no one dared to speak out the truth. At the time of the Great
Famine, instead of reporting the truth, people concealed the facts about
the deaths from starvation in order to protect their official positions.
Gansu province even refused food aid from Shaanxi Province, claiming Gansu
had too great a food surplus.
This Great Famine was also a qualifying
test for the CCP's cadres. According to the CCP's criteria, these cadres
who had resisted telling the truth in the face of tens of millions starving
to death were certainly "qualified." With this test, the CCP would then
believe that nothing such as human emotions or heavenly principles could
become a psychological burden that would prevent these cadres from following
the Party line. After the Great Famine, the responsible provincial officials
merely participated in the formality of self-criticism. Li Jingquan, the
CCP Secretary for Sichuan Province where millions of people died from starvation,
was promoted to be the First Secretary of the Southwestern District Bureau
of the CCP.
From the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen
Square Massacre to Falun Gong
The Cultural Revolution was formally
launched on May 16, 1966 and lasted until 1976. This period was called
the "Ten-Year Catastrophe" even by the CCP itself. Later in an interview
with a Yugoslav reporter, Hu Yaobang, the former general party secretary
said, "At that time nearly 100 million people were implicated, which was
one tenth of the Chinese population."
Facts of the Political Campaigns
after the Founding of the People's Republic of China reported that,
"In May 1984, after 31 months of intensive investigation, verification
and recalculation by the Central Committee of the CCP, the figures related
to the Cultural Revolution were:
over 4.2 million people were
detained and investigated;
over 1,728,000 people died of unnatural
causes;
over 135,000 people were labeled as
counter-revolutionaries and executed;
over 237,000 people were killed and
over 7.03 million were disabled in armed attacks;
and 71,200 families were destroyed."
Statistics compiled from county annals
show that 7.73 million people died of unnatural causes during the Cultural
Revolution.
Besides the beating of people to death,
the beginning of the Cultural Revolution also triggered a wave of suicides.
Many famous intellectuals, including Lao She, Fu Lei, Jian Bozan, Wu Han
and Chu Anping all ended their own lives at an early stage of the Cultural
Revolution.
The Cultural Revolution was the most
frenzied leftist period in China. Killing became a competitive way to exhibit
one's revolutionary standing, so the slaughter of "class enemies" was extremely
cruel and brutal.
The policy of "reform and opening up"
greatly advanced the circulation of information, which made it possible
for many foreign reporters to witness the Tiananmen Square Massacre in
1989 and to air television reports showing tanks chase down and crush college
students to death.
Ten years later, on July 20, 1999, Jiang
Zemin began his suppression of Falun Gong. By the end of 2002, inside information
from government sources in Mainland China confirmed the cover-up of over
7,000 deaths in detention centers, forced labor camps, prisons and mental
hospitals, with an average of seven people being killed every day.
Nowadays the CCP tends to kill far less
than in the past when millions or tens of millions would be murdered. There
are two important reasons for this. On the one hand, the Party has warped
the minds of the Chinese people with its Party culture so that they are
now more submissive and cynical. On the other hand, because of excessive
corruption and embezzlement by CCP officials, the Chinese economy has become
a "transfusion type of economy," and depends substantially on foreign capital
to sustain economic growth and social stability. The CCP vividly remembers
the economic sanctions that followed the Tiananmen Square massacre, and
knows that open killing would result in a withdrawal of foreign capital
that would endanger its totalitarian regime.
Nevertheless, the CCP has never given
up slaughtering behind the scenes, but today's CCP spares no efforts to
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II. Extremely Cruel
Ways of Killing |
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Everything the CCP does serves only
one purpose: gaining and maintaining power. Killing is a very important
way for the CCP to maintain its power. The more people killed and the crueler
the killings, the greater the ability to terrify. Such terror started as
early as before the Sino-Japanese War.
Massacre in Northern China during Sino-Japanese
War
When recommending the book Enemy
Within by Father Raymond J. De Jaegher [16], former U.S. President
Hoover commented that the book exposed the naked terror of communist movements.
He would recommend it to anyone who was willing to understand such an evil
force in this world.
In this book, De Jaegher told stories
about how the CCP used violence to terrify people into submission. For
instance, one day the CCP required everyone to go to the square in the
village. Teachers led the children to the square from school. The purpose
for the gathering was to watch the killing of 13 patriotic young men. After
announcing the fabricated charges against the victims, the CCP ordered
the horrified teacher to lead the children to sing patriotic songs. Appearing
on the stage amid the songs were not dancers, but rather an executioner
holding a sharp knife in his hands. The executioner was a fierce, robust
young communist soldier with strong arms. The soldier went behind the first
victim, quickly raised a big sharp knife and struck downwards, and the
first head fell to the ground. Blood sprayed out like a fountain as the
head rolled on the ground. The children's hysterical singing turned into
chaotic screaming and crying. The teacher kept the beat, trying to keep
the songs going; her bell was heard ringing over and over in the chaos.
The executioner chopped 13 times and
13 heads fell to the ground. After that, many communist soldiers came over,
cut the victims' chests open and took out their hearts for a feast. All
the brutality was done in front of the children. The children went all
pale due to the terror, and some started throwing up. The teacher scolded
the soldiers, and lined the children up to return to school.
After that, Father De Jaegher often
saw children being forced to watch killings. The children became used to
the bloody scenes and numb to the killing; some even started to enjoy the
excitement.
When the CCP felt that simple killing
was not horrifying and exciting enough, they invented all kinds of cruel
tortures. For example, forcing someone to swallow a large amount of salt
without letting him drink any water - the victim would suffer until he
died of thirst; or stripping someone naked and forcing him to roll on broken
glass; or creating a hole in a frozen river in the winter, then throwing
the victim into the hole - the victim would either freeze to death or drown.
De Jaegher wrote that a CCP member in
Shanxi province invented a terrible torture. One day when he was wandering
in the city, he stopped in front of a restaurant and stared at a big boiling
vat. Later he purchased several giant vats, and immediately arrested some
people who were against the communist party. During the hasty trial, the
vats were filled with water and heated to boiling. Three victims were stripped
naked and thrown into the vats to boil to death after the trial. At Pingshan,
De Jaegher witnessed a father being skinned alive. The CCP members forced
the son to watch and participate in the inhumane torture, to see his father
die in excruciating pain and listen to his father's screams. The CCP members
poured vinegar and acid onto the father's body and then all his skin was
quickly peeled off. They started from the back, then up to the shoulders
and soon the skin from his whole body was peeled off, leaving only the
skin on the head intact. His father died in minutes.
The Red Terror during "Red August" and
the Guangxi Cannibalism
After gaining absolute control over
the country, the CCP did not end its violence at all. During the Cultural
Revolution, such violence became worse.
On August 18, 1966, Mao Zedong met with
the Red Guard representatives on the tower of Tiananmen Square. Song Binbin,
daughter of communist leader Song Renqiong, put a Red Guard sleeve emblem
on Mao. When Mao learned of Song Binbin's name, which means gentle and
polite, he said, "We need more violence." Song therefore changed her name
to Song Yaowu (literally meaning "want violence.")
Violent armed attacks soon spread quickly
to the whole country. The younger generation educated in communist atheism
had no fears or concerns. Under the direct leadership of the CCP and guided
by Mao's instructions, the Red Guards, being fanatic, ignorant, and holding
themselves above the law, started beating people and ransacking homes nationwide.
In many areas, all the "five black classes" (landlords, rich farmers, reactionaries,
bad elements, and rightists) and their family members were eradicated according
to a policy of genocide. A typical example was Daxing County near Beijing,
where from August 27 to September 1 of 1966, a total of 325 people were
killed in 48 brigades of 13 People's Communes. The oldest killed was 80
years old, and the youngest only 38 days. Twenty-two entire households
were killed with no one left.
Beating a person to death was
a common scene. On Shatan Street, a group of male Red Guards tortured an
old woman with metal chains and leather belts until she could not move
any more, and still a female Red Guard jumped on her body and stomped on
her stomach. The old woman died at the scene. ... Near Chongwenmeng, when
the Red Guards searched the home of a "landlord's wife" (a lonely widow),
they forced each neighbor to bring a pot of boiling water to the scene
and they poured the boiling water down the old lady's collar until her
body was cooked. Several days later, the old lady was found dead in the
room, her body covered with maggots. ... There were many different ways
of killing, including beating to death with batons, cutting with sickles
and strangling to death with ropes. ... The way to kill babies was the
most brutal: the killer stepped on one leg of a baby and pulled the other
leg, tearing the baby in half. ( Investigation of Daxing Massacreby
Yu Luowen) [17]
The Guangxi cannibalism was even more inhumane
than the Daxing Massacre. Writer Zheng Yi, author of the book Scarlet
Memorial described the cannibalism as progressing in three stages [18].
The first was the beginning stage
when the terror was covert and gloomy.
County annals documented a typical scene: at midnight, the killers tip-toed
to find their victim and cut him open to remove his heart and liver. Because
they were inexperienced and scared, they took his lung by mistake, then
they had to go back again. Once they had cooked the heart and liver, some
people brought liquor from home, some brought seasoning, and then all the
killers ate the human organs in silence by the light of the fire in the
oven.
The second stage was the peak, when the
terror became open and public. During
this stage, veteran killers had gained experience in how to remove hearts
and livers while the victim was still alive, and they taught others, refining
their techniques to perfection. For example when cutting open a living
person, the killers only needed to cut a cross on the victim's belly, step
on his body (if the victim was tied to a tree, the killers would bump his
lower abdomen with the knee) and the heart and other organs would just
fall out. The head killer was entitled to the heart, liver and genitals
while others would take what was left. These grand yet dreadful scenes
were adorned with flying flags and slogans.
The third stage was crazed.
Cannibalism became a massive widespread movement. In Wuxuan County, like
wild dogs eating corpses during an epidemic, people were madly eating other
people. Often victims were first "publicly criticized," which was always
followed by killing, and then cannibalism. As soon as a victim fell to
the ground, dead or alive, people took out the knives they had prepared
and surrounded the victim, cutting any body part they could get hold of.
At this stage, ordinary citizens were all involved in the cannibalism.
The hurricane of "class struggle" blew away any sense of sin and human
nature from people's minds. Cannibalism spread like an epidemic and people
enjoyed cannibalistic feasts. Any part of the human body was edible, including
the heart, meat, liver, kidneys, elbows, feet, and tendons. Human bodies
were cooked in many different ways including boiling, steaming, stir-frying,
baking, frying and barbecuing ... People drank liquor or wine and played
games while eating human bodies. During the peak of this movement, even
the cafeteria of the highest government organization, Wuxuan County Revolutionary
Committee, offered human dishes.
Readers should not mistakenly think such
a festival of cannibalism was purely an unorganized behavior by the people.
The CCP was a totalitarian organization controlling every single cell of
the society. Without the CCP's encouragement and manipulation, the cannibalism
movement could not have happened at all.
A song written by the CCP in praise
of itself says, "The old society [19] turned humans into ghosts, the new
society turned ghosts into humans." However, these killings and cannibalistic
feasts tell us that the CCP could turn a human being into a monster or
a devil, because the CCP itself is crueler than any monster or devil.
Persecution of Falun Gong
As the people in China step into the
era of computers and space travel, and can talk privately about human rights,
freedom and democracy, many people think that the gruesome and disgusting
atrocities are all in the past. The CCP has donned civilian clothing and
is
ready to connect with the world.
But that's far from the truth. When
the CCP discovered that there is a group that does not fear its cruel torture
and killing, the means they used became even more manic. The group that
has been persecuted in this way is Falun Gong.
The Red Guards' violence and the cannibalism
in Guangxi Province aimed at eliminating the victim's body, killing someone
in several minutes or several hours. Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted
to force them to give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Tolerance." Also, the cruel tortures often last for several days, several
months or even several years. It's estimated that more than 10,000 Falun
Gong practitioners have died as a result of torture.
Falun Gong practitioners who suffered
all kinds of tortures and escaped from the jaw of death have recorded more
than 100 cruel torture methods; the following are only several examples.
Cruel beating is the most commonly used
torture method to abuse Falun Gong practitioners. The police and head prisoners
directly beat practitioners and also instigate other prisoners to beat
practitioners. Many practitioners have become deaf from these beatings,
their outer ear tissues have been broken off, their eyeballs crushed, their
teeth broken, and their skull, spine, ribcage, collarbone, pelvis, arms
and legs have been broken; arms and legs have been amputated due to the
beatings. Some torturers have ruthlessly pinched and crushed male practitioners'
testicles and kicked female practitioners' genital areas. If the practitioners
did not give in, torturers would continue the beating until the practitioners'
skin was torn and the flesh gaped open. Practitioners' bodies have become
completely deformed from torture and covered in blood, yet the guards have
still poured salt water on them and continued to shock them with electric
batons. The smells of blood and of flesh burning mix together and the screams
of agony are miserable. Meanwhile, the torturers also use plastic bags
to cover practitioners' heads in an attempt to make them yield out of fear
of suffocation.
Electric shock is another method commonly
used in Chinese forced labor camps to torture Falun Gong practitioners.
The police have used electric batons to shock practitioners' sensitive
parts of the body, including the mouth, top of the head, chest, genitalia,
hips, thighs, soles of the feet, female practitioners' breasts, and male
practitioners' penis. Some police have shocked practitioners with several
electric batons simultaneously until burning flesh could be smelled and
the injured parts were dark and purple. Sometimes, the head and anus are
shocked at the same time. The police have often used ten or even more electric
batons simultaneously to beat the practitioners for a long time. Normally
an electric baton has tens of thousands volts. When it discharges, it emits
blue light with a static-like sound. When the electric current goes through
a person's body, it feels like one is being burned or being bitten by snakes.
Every shock is very painful like a snakebite. The victim's skin turns red,
broken, and burned and the wounds fester. There are even more powerful
batons with higher voltage that make the victim feel like his head is being
hit with a hammer.
Police also use lit cigarettes to burn
practitioners' hands, face, bottoms of the feet, chest, back, nipples,
and so on. They use cigarette lighters to burn practitioners' hands and
genitals. Specially-made iron bars are heated in electrical stoves until
they become red-hot. They are then used to burn practitioners' legs. The
police also use red-hot charcoal to burn practitioners' faces. The police
burned a practitioner to death who, after having already endured cruel
tortures, still had a breath and a pulse. The police then claimed his death
was a "self-immolation."
Police beat female practitioners' breasts
and genital areas. They have raped and gang raped women practitioners.
In addition, police have stripped off female practitioners' clothes and
thrown them into prison cells filled with male prisoners who have then
raped them. They have used electric batons to shock their breasts and genitals.
They have used cigarette lighters to burn their nipples, and inserted electrical
batons into the practitioners' vaginas to shock them. They have bundled
four toothbrushes and inserted them into female practitioners' vaginas
and rubbed and twisted the toothbrushes. They have hooked female practitioners'
private parts with iron hooks. Female practitioners' hands are cuffed behind
their backs, and practitioners' nipples are hooked up to wires through
which electric current is run.
They force Falun Gong practitioners
to wear "straight jackets [20]," and then cross and tie their arms behind
their backs. They pull their arms up over their shoulders to the front
of their chest, tie up the practitioners' legs and hang them outside the
window. At the same time, they gag practitioners' mouths with cloth, put
earphones in their ears and continuously play messages that slander Falun
Gong. According to an eyewitness account, people who suffer this torture
quickly sustain broken arms, tendons, shoulders, wrists and elbows. Those
who have been tortured this way for a long time have completely broken
spines, and die in agonizing pain.
They also throw the practitioners into
dungeons filled with sewage. They hammer bamboo sticks under the practitioners'
fingernails and force them to live in damp rooms full of red, green, yellow,
white and other molds on the ceiling, floors and walls, which cause their
injuries to fester. They also have dogs, snakes and scorpions bite the
practitioners and they inject the practitioners with nerve-damaging drugs.
These are just some of the ways that practitioners are tortured in the
labor camps. |
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III. Cruel Struggle
within the Party |
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Because the CCP unifies its members
on the basis of Party nature rather than morality and justice, the loyalty
of its members, especially senior officials, to the supreme leader is a
central question. The Party needs to create an atmosphere of terror by
killing its members. The survivors then see that when the supreme dictator
wants someone to die, that person will die miserably.
The internal fights of communist parties
are well known. All members of the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party
in the first two terms, except Lenin, who had died, and Stalin himself,
were executed or committed suicide. Three of the five marshals were executed,
three of the five Commanders-in-Chief were executed, all 10 of the secondary
army Commanders-in-Chief were executed, 57 of the 85 army corps commanders
were executed, and 110 of the 195 division commanders were executed.
The CCP always advocates "brutal struggles
and merciless attacks." Such tactics not only target people outside the
Party. As early as the revolutionary period in Jiangxi Province, the CCP
had already killed so many people in the Anti-Bolshevik Corps (AB Corps)
[21] that only a few survived to fight in the war. In the city of Yan'an,
the Party carried out a "Rectification" campaign. Later, after becoming
politically established, it eliminated Gao Gang, Rao Shushi [22], Hu Feng,
and Peng Dehuai. By the time of the Cultural Revolution, almost all the
senior members within the Party had been eliminated. None of the former
CCP's secretary-generals met with a good ending.
Liu Shaoqi, a former Chinese president
who was once the No. 2 figure in the nation, died miserably. On the day
of his 70th birthday, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai [23] specifically told
Wang Dongxing (Mao's lead guard) to bring Liu Shaoqi a birthday present,
a radio, in order to let him hear the official report of the Eighth Plenary
Session of the twelfth Central Committee, which said, "Forever expel the
traitor, spy, and renegade Liu Shaoqi from the Party and continue to expose
and criticize Liu Shaoqi and his accomplices' crimes of betrayal and treason."
Liu Shaoqi was crushed mentally and
his illnesses rapidly deteriorated. Because he was tied to the bed for
a long time and could not move, his neck, back, hip, and heels had painful
festering bedsores. When he felt great pain he would grab some clothes,
articles, or other people's arms, and not let go, so people simply put
a hard plastic bottle into each of his hands. When he died, the two hard
plastic bottles had become hourglass shaped from his gripping.
By October 1969, Liu Shaoqi's body had
started to rot all over and the infected pus had a strong odor. He was
as thin as a rail and on the verge of death. But the special inspector
from the central Party committee did not allow him to take a shower or
turn over his body to change his clothes. Instead, they stripped off all
his clothes, wrapped him in a quilt, sent him by air from Beijing to Kaifeng
city, and locked him up in the basement of a solid blockhouse. When he
had high fever, they not only did not give him medication, but also transferred
the medical personnel away. When Liu Shaoqi died, his body had completely
degenerated, and he had disheveled white hair that was two feet long. Two
days later, at midnight, he was cremated as a person with a highly infectious
disease. His bedding, pillow and other things left behind were all cremated.
Liu's death card reads: Name: Liu Weihuang; occupation: unemployed; reason
for death: disease. The CCP tortured the president of the nation to death
like this without even giving a clear reason. |
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IV. Exporting the
Revolution, Killing People Overseas |
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In addition to killing people within
China and inside the Party with great delight and using a variety of methods,
the CCP also participated in killing people abroad including the overseas
Chinese by exporting the "revolution." The Khmer Rouge is a typical example.
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge only existed for
four years in Cambodia. Nevertheless, from 1975 to 1978, more than two
million people, including over 200,000 Chinese, were killed in this small
country that had a population of only eight million people.
The Khmer Rouge's crimes are countless,
but we will not discuss them here. We must, however, talk about its relationship
with the CCP.
Pol Pot worshipped Mao Zedong. Beginning
in 1965, he visited China four times to listen to Mao Zedong's teachings
in person. As early as November 1965, Pol Pot stayed in China for three
months. Chen Boda and Zhang Chunqiao discussed with him theories such as
"political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," "class struggle," "dictatorship
of the proletariat," and so on. Later, these became the basis for how he
ruled Cambodia. After returning to Cambodia, Pol Pot changed the name of
his party to the Cambodian Communist Party and established revolutionary
bases according to the CCP's model of encircling cities from the countryside.
In 1968, the Cambodian Communist Party
officially established an army. At the end of 1969, it had slightly more
than 3,000 people. But in 1975, before attacking and occupying the city
of Phnom Penh, it had become a well equipped and brave fighting force of
80,000 soldiers. This was completely due to the CCP's support. The book
Documentary of Supporting Vietnam and Fighting with America by Wang
Xiangen [24] says that in 1970 China gave Pol Pot armed equipment for 30,000
soldiers. In April 1975, Pol Pot took the capital of Cambodia, and two
months later, he went to Beijing to pay a visit to the CCP and listen to
instructions. Obviously, if the Khmer Rouge's killing had not been backed
by the CCP's theories and material support, it could not have been done.
For example, after Prince Sihanouk's
two sons were killed by the Cambodian Communist Party, the Cambodian Communist
Party obediently sent Sihanouk to Beijing on Zhou Enlai's orders. It was
well known that when the Cambodian Communist Party killed people, they
would "even kill the fetus" to prevent any possible troubles in the future.
But at Zhou Enlai's request, Pol Pot obeyed without protest.
Zhou Enlai could save Sihanouk with
one word, but the CCP did not object to the more than 200,000 Chinese who
were killed by the Cambodian Communist Party. At that time, the Chinese
Cambodians went to the Chinese embassy for help, but the embassy ignored
them.
In May 1998, when a large-scale killing
and raping of ethnic Chinese took place in Indonesia, the CCP did not say
a word. It did not offer any help, and even blocked the news inside China.
It seems that the Chinese government couldn't care less about the fate
of overseas Chinese; it did not even offer any humanitarian assistance. |
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V. The Destruction
of Family |
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We have no way to count how many people
have been killed in the CCP's political campaigns. Among the people, there
is no way to do a statistical survey because of information blocks and
barriers among different regions, ethnic groups, and local dialects. The
CCP government would never conduct this kind of survey, as that would be
like digging its own grave. The CCP prefers to omit the details when writing
its own history.
The number of families damaged by the
CCP is even more difficult to know. In some cases, one person died and
the family was broken. In other cases, the entire family died. Even when
no one died, many were forced to divorce. Father and son, mother and daughter
were forced to renounce their relationships. Some were disabled, some went
crazy, and some died young because of serious illness caused by torture.
The record of all these family tragedies is very incomplete.
The Japan-based Yomiuri News
once reported that over half of the Chinese population has been persecuted
by CCP. If that is the case, the number of families destroyed by the CCP
is estimated to be over 100 million.
Zhang Zhixin [25] has become a household
name due to the amount of reporting on her story. Many people know that
she suffered physical torture, gang rape and mental torture. Finally, she
was driven insane and shot to death after her tongue was cut. But many
people may not know there is another cruel story behind this tragedy -
even her family members had to attend a "study session for the families
of death row inmates."
Zhang Zhixin's daughter Lin Lin recalled
that in the early spring of 1975,
A person from Shenyang Court
said loudly, "Your mother is a real die-hard counterrevolutionary. She
refuses to accept reform, and is incorrigibly obstinate. She is against
our great leader Chairman Mao, against the invincible Mao Zedong Thought,
and against Chairman Mao's proletariat revolutionary direction. With one
crime on top of another, our government is considering increasing the punishment.
If she is executed, what is your attitude?" I was astonished, and did not
know how to answer. My heart was broken. But I pretended to be calm, trying
hard to keep my tears from falling. My father had told me that we could
not cry in front of others, otherwise we had no way to renounce our relationship
with my mother. Father answered for me, "If this is the case, the government
is free to do what it deems necessary."
The person from court asked again, "Will
you collect her body if she is executed? Will you collect her belongings
in prison?" I lowered my head and said nothing. Father answered for me
again, "We don't need anything."... Father held my brother and me by the
hands and we walked out of the county motel. Staggering along, we walked
home against the howling snow storm. We did not cook; father split the
only coarse corn bun we had at home and gave it to my brother and me. He
said, "Finish it and go to bed early." I lay on the clay bed quietly. Father
sat on a stool and stared at the light in a daze. After a while, he looked
at the bed and thought we were all asleep. He stood up, gently opened the
suitcase we brought from our old home in Shenyang, and took out mother's
photo. He looked at it and could not hold back his tears.
I got up from bed, put my head into
father's arms and started crying loudly. Father patted me and said, "Don't
do that, we cannot let the neighbors hear it." My brother woke up after
hearing me cry. Father held my brother and me tightly in his arms. This
night we did not know how many tears we shed, but we could not cry freely.
[26]
One university lecturer had a happy family,
but his family encountered a disaster during the process of redressing
the rightists. At the time of the anti-rightist movement, his wife was
dating someone who was labeled a rightist. Her lover was later sent to
a remote area and suffered greatly. Because she, as a young girl, could
not go along, she gave her lover up and married the lecturer. When her
beloved one finally came back to their hometown, she, now a mother of several
children, had no other way to repent her betrayal in the past. She insisted
on divorcing her husband in order to redeem her guilty conscience. By this
time, the lecturer was over 50-years old; he could not accept the sudden
change and went insane. He stripped off all his clothes and ran all over
to look for a place to start a new life. Finally, his wife left him and
their children. The painful separation decreed by the Party is a problem
that can't be solved and an incurable social disease that could only replace
one separation with another separation.
Family is the basic unit of the Chinese
society. It is also the traditional culture's last defense against the
Party culture. That is why damage to the family is the cruelest in the
CCP's history of killing.
Because the CCP monopolizes all social
resources, when a person is classified as being on the opposing side of
the dictatorship, he or she will immediately face a crisis in livelihood,
be accused by everyone in society, and stripped of his or her dignity.
Because they are treated unjustly, the family is the only safe haven for
these innocent people to be consoled. But the CCP's policy of implication
kept family members from comforting each other; otherwise, they too risked
being labeled opponents of the dictatorship. Zhang Zhixin, for instance,
was forced to divorce. For many people, family members' betrayal - reporting
on, fighting, publicly criticizing, or denouncing them - is the last straw
that breaks their spirit. Many people have committed suicide as a result. |
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VI. The Patterns
and Consequences of Killing |
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The CCP's Ideology of Killing
The CCP has always touted itself as
being talented and creative in its development of Marxism-Leninism, but
in reality the CCP creatively developed an unprecedented evil in history
and around the world. It uses the communist ideology of social unity to
deceive the public and intellectuals. It sizes the opportunity of science
and technology's undermining belief to promote complete atheism. It uses
communism to deny private ownership, and uses Lenin's theory and practice
of violent revolution to rule the country. At the same time, it combined
and further reinforced the most evil part of Chinese culture that deviates
from mainstream Chinese traditions.
The CCP invented a complete theory and
framework of "revolution" and "continuous revolution" under the dictatorship
of the proletariat; it used this system to change society and ensure the
party dictatorship. Its theory has two parts - economic base and superstructure
under the dictatorship of the proletariat, in which the economic base determines
the superstructure, while the superstructure in turn acts on the economic
base. In order to strengthen the superstructure, especially the Party's
power, it must first start the revolution from the economic base, which
includes:
(1)
Killing the landowners to solve the relations of production [27] in the
countryside, and
(2)
Killing the capitalists to solve relations of production in cities.
Within the superstructure, killing is also
repeatedly carried out to maintain the Party's absolute control in ideology.
This includes:
(1)
Solving the problem of intellectuals' political attitude towards the Party
Over a long period of time, the CCP
has launched multiple campaigns to reform the thought of the intellectuals.
They have accused intellectuals of bourgeois individualism, bourgeois ideology,
apolitical viewpoints, classless ideology, liberalism, etc. The CCP stripped
intellectuals of their dignity through brainwashing them and eliminating
their conscience. The CCP nearly eliminated completely the independent
thinking and many other good qualities of the intellectuals, including
the tradition of speaking out for justice and devoting one's life to uphold
justice. That tradition teaches: "Not be led into excesses when wealthy
and honored or deflected from his purpose when poor and obscure, nor can
he be made to bow before superior force [28]"; "One should be the first
to worry for the state and the last to claim his share of happiness. [29]";
"Every ordinary man shall hold himself responsible for his nation's success
and failure. [30]"; and, "In obscurity a gentleman makes perfect his own
person, but in prominence he makes perfect the whole country as well."
[31
(2)
Launching a cultural revolution and killing people in order to gain the
CCP's absolute cultural and political leadership
The CCP mobilized mass campaigns inside
and outside the Party, starting to kill in the areas of literature, art,
theatre, history and education. The CCP targeted the first attacks on several
famous people such as the "Three-Family Village [32]," Liu Shaoqi, Wu Han,
Lao She, and Jian Bozan. Later, the number of people killed increased to
"a small group inside the Party" and "a small group inside the army," and
finally, the killing escalated from among all inside the Party and army
to all the people around the country. Armed fighting eliminated physical
bodies; cultural attacks killed people's spirit. It was an extremely chaotic
and violent period under the CCP's control. The evil side of human nature
had been amplified to the maximum by the Party's needs to revive its power
in a crisis. Everyone could arbitrarily kill under the name of "revolution"
and "defending Chairman Mao's revolutionary line." That was an unprecedented
nationwide exercise of eliminating human nature.
(3)
The CCP fired at students in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 in response
to the democratic demands following the Cultural Revolution
This was the first time that the CCP
army killed civilians publicly in order to suppress the people's protest
of embezzlement, corruption and collusion between government officials
and businessmen, and their demand for the freedoms of press, speech, and
assembly. During the Tiananmen massacre, in order to instigate hatred between
the army and civilians, the CCP even staged scenes of people burning military
vehicles and killing soldiers, stage-managing the tragedy of the People's
Army massacring its people.
(4)
Killing people of different beliefs
The domain of belief is the lifeline
of the CCP. In order to let its heresy deceive people at the time, the
CCP started to eliminate all religions and belief systems at the beginning
of its rule. When facing a spiritual belief in a new era - Falun Gong -
the CCP took out its butcher's knife again. The CCP's strategy is to take
advantage of Falun Gong's principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance"
and the fact that practitioners do not lie, do not use violence, and will
not cause social instability. After gaining experience in persecuting Falun
Gong, the CCP made itself better able to eliminate people of other faiths.
This time, Jiang Zemin and the CCP themselves came to the front of the
stage to kill instead of utilizing other people or groups.
(5)
Killing people in order to cover up the truth
The people's right to know is another
weak point of the CCP; The CCP also kills people in order to block information.
In the past, "listening to the enemy's radio broadcast" was a felony that
was punished with prison terms. Now, in response to multiple incidents
of the interception of the state-owned television system to clarify the
truth of the persecution of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin issued the secret order
to "kill instantly without mercy." Liu Chengjun, who carried out such an
interception, was tortured to death. The CCP has mobilized the '610 Office'
(an organization similar to the Gestapo in Nazi Germany that was created
to persecute Falun Gong), the police, prosecutors, courts and a massive
Internet police system to monitor people's every action.
(6)
Depriving people of their survival rights for the sake of its own interests
The CCP's theory of continuous revolution
means, in reality, that it will not give up its power. Currently, embezzlement
and corruption inside the CCP have developed into conflicts between the
Party's absolute leadership and people's right to life. When people organize
to protect their rights legally, the CCP uses violence, waving its butcher's
knife toward the so-called "ringleaders" of these movements. The CCP has
already prepared over one million armed police for this purpose. Today,
the CCP is much better prepared for killing than it was at the time of
the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, when it had to mobilize temporarily its
field army. However, while forcing its people on a road to ruin, the CCP
has also forced itself into a dead end. The CCP has come to such an extremely
vulnerable stage that it even "takes trees and grass as enemies when the
wind blows," as the Chinese saying goes.
We can see from above that the CCP is an
evil specter in nature. No matter how it changes at a specific time and
place in order to maintain absolute control, the CCP will not change its
history of killing - it killed people before, is killing people now, and
will continue to kill in the future.
Different Killing Patterns under Different
Circumstances
A. Leading with Propaganda
The CCP has used various different ways
to kill people depending on the period of time. In most situations, the
CCP created propaganda before killing. The CCP has said often "only killing
could appease the public's indignation," as if people had requested the
CCP to kill. In reality, this "public indignation" has been excited by
the CCP.
For example, the drama "White-Haired
Girl" [33], a total distortion of a folk legend, and the fabricated stories
of rent collection and water dungeons told in the drama "Liu Wencai" were
both used as tools to "educate" people to hate landlords. The CCP commonly
demonizes their enemies, as it did in the case of China's former president,
Liu Shaoqi. In particular, the CCP staged a self-immolation incident on
Tiananmen Square in January 2001 to incite people's hatred toward Falun
Gong, and then redoubled their massive genocidal campaign against Falun
Gong. Not only has the CCP not changed its ways of killing people, but
instead has perfected them by employing new information technology. In
the past the CCP could only deceive the Chinese people, but now it also
deceives people around the world.
B. Mobilizing the Masses to Kill People
The CCP not only kills people through
the machine of its dictatorship, but also actively mobilizes people to
kill each other. Even if the CCP observed some regulations and laws in
the beginning of these mobilizations, by the time it has incited people
to join in, nothing could stop the slaughter. For example, when the CCP
was carrying out its land reform, a land reform committee could decide
on the life and death of landlords.
C. Destroying One's Spirit before Killing
His Physical Body
Another pattern of killing is to crush
one's spirit before killing the human body. In China's history, even the
the most cruel and ferocious Qin Dynasty (221 – 207 BC) did not destroy
people's spirits. The CCP has never given people the chance to die like
a martyr. They promulgated policies such as "Leniency to those who confess
and severe punishment to those who resist," and "Lowering one's head to
admit the crime is the only way out." The CCP forces people to give up
their own thoughts and beliefs, making them die like dogs without dignity;
a dignified death would encourage followers. Only when people die in humiliation
and shame can the CCP achieve its purpose of "educating" the people who
admired the victim. The reason that the CCP persecutes Falun Gong with
extreme cruelty and violence is that Falun Gong practitioners consider
their beliefs more important than their lives. When the CCP was unable
to destroy their dignity, it did everything it could to torture their physical
bodies.
D. Killing People by Alliances and Alienation
When killing people, the CCP would use
both carrot and stick, befriending some people and alienating others. The
CCP always tries to attack a "small portion" of the population, using the
proportion of 5 percent. "The majority" of the population are always good,
always the objects of "education." Such education consists of terror and
care. Education through terror uses fear to show people that those who
oppose the CCP will come to no good end, making them stay far away from
those previously attacked by the Party. Education through "care" lets people
see that if they can earn the CCP's trust and stand together with the CCP,
they will not only be safe but also have a good chance to be promoted or
gain other benefits. Lin Biao [33] once said, "A small portion [suppressed]
today and a small portion tomorrow, soon there will be a large portion
in total." Those who rejoiced surviving one movement often became victims
of the next.
E. Nipping Potential Threats in the Bud
and Secretive Extra-Judicial Killings
Recently the CCP has developed the killing
pattern of nipping problems in the bud and killing secretly outside the
law. For example, as workers' strikes or peasants' protests become more
common in various places, the CCP eliminates the movements before they
can grow by arresting the so-called "ringleaders" and sentencing them to
severe punishment. In another example, as freedom and human rights have
more and more become a commonly recognized trend throughout the world,
the CCP did not sentence any Falun Gong practitioner to the death penalty,
but under Jiang Zemin's instigation of "no one is held responsible for
killing Falun Gong practitioners," Falun Gong practitioners have commonly
been tortured to tragic deaths all over the country. Although the Chinese
Constitution stipulates the citizens' right of appeal if one has suffered
an injustice. Nevertheless, the CCP uses plainclothes policeman or hires
local thugs to stop, arrest and send appellants back home, even putting
them into labor camps.
F. Killing One to Warn Others
The persecutions of Zhang Zhixin, Yu
Luoke and Lin Zhao [35] are all such examples.
G. Using Suppression to Conceal the Truth
of Killing
Famous people with international influence
are usually suppressed, but not killed by the CCP. The purpose of this
is to conceal the killing of those whose deaths will not draw public attention.
For example, during the campaign of suppressing the reactionaries, the
CCP did not kill high-ranking KMT generals such as Long Yun, Fu Zuoyi and
Du Yuming, and instead killed lower level KMT officers and soldiers.
The CCP's killing has, over a long period
of time, distorted the Chinese people's souls. Now, in China, many people
have the tendency to kill. When terrorists attacked the U.S. on September
11, 2001, many Chinese cheered the attacks on Mainland Chinese Internet
message boards. Advocates of "total war" were heard everywhere, making
people tremble with fear. |
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Due to the CCP's information blockade,
we have no way of knowing exactly how many people have died from the various
movements of persecution that occurred during its rule. At least 60 million
people died in the foregoing movements. In addition, the CCP also killed
ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and other
places; information on these incidents is difficult to find. The Washington
Post once estimated that the number of people persecuted to death by
the CCP is as high as 80 million [36].
Besides the number of deaths, we have
no way of knowing how many people became disabled, mentally ill, enraged,
depressed, or frightened to death through the persecution they suffered.
Every single death is a bitter tragedy that leaves everlasting agony to
the family members of the victims.
As the Japan-based Yomiuri News
once reported [37], the Chinese central government conducted a survey on
the casualties inflicted during the Cultural Revolution in 29 provinces
and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Results showed
that nearly 600 million people were persecuted or incriminated during the
Cultural Revolution, which comprises about half of China's population.
Stalin once said that the death of one
man is a tragedy, but the death of one million is merely a statistic. When
told that many people starved to death in Sichuan province, Li Jingquan,
the former Party Secretary of Sichuan Province, remarked, "Which dynasty
didn't have people die?" Mao Zedong said, "Casualties are inevitable for
any struggle. Death often occurs." This is the atheist communists' view
on life. That's why 20 million people died as a result of persecution during
Stalin's regime, which constitutes 10 percent of the population of the
former USSR. The CCP has killed at least 80 million people, which is also
nearly 10 percent of the nation's population [at the end of the Cultural
Revolution]. The Khmer Rouge killed two million people, or one quarter
of Cambodia's population at that time. In North Korea, the death toll from
famine is estimated to be over one million. These are all bloody debts
owed by the communist parties.
Evil cults sacrifice people and use
their blood to worship evil specters. Since its beginnings, the communist
party has continued to kill people - when it couldn't kill those outside
the Party, it would even kill its own people - to commemorate its "class
struggles," "inter-party struggles," and other fallacies. It even put its
own party general secretary, marshals, generals, ministers and others on
the sacrificial altar of the evil cult.
Many think the CCP should be given time
to improve itself, saying that it is quite restrained in its killings now.
First of all, killing one person still makes one a murderer. Moreover,
because killing is one of the methods the CCP uses to govern its terror-based
regime, the CCP would then ratchet up and down its killings according to
its needs. The CCP's killing is, in general, unpredictable. When people
lack a strong sense of fear, the CCP could kill more to increase their
sense of terror; when people are already fearful, killing a few could maintain
the sense of terror; when people can't help but fear the CCP, then announcing
the intention to kill, with no need really to kill, would be enough for
the CCP to maintain terror. After having experienced countless political
and killing movements, people have formed a conditioned reflex response
to the CCP's terror. Therefore, there is no need for the CCP to even mention
killing, even the propaganda machine's tone of mass criticism is enough
to bring back people's memories of terror.
The CCP would adjust the intensity of
its killing once people's sense of terror changes. The magnitude of killing
itself is not the goal of the CCP; the key is its consistency in killing
for the sake of maintaining power. The CCP has not become lenient. Nor
has it laid down its butcher's knife. Conversely, the people have become
more obedient. Once the people stand up to request something that goes
beyond the tolerance of the CCP, the CCP will not hesitate to kill.
Out of the need to maintain terror,
random killing gives the maximum result to achieve this goal. In the large-scale
killings that took place previously, the identity, crime and sentencing
standard for its targets were kept intentionally vague by the CCP. To avoid
being included as the targets for killing, people would often restrict
themselves to a "safe zone" based on their own judgment. Such a "safe zone"
was sometimes even narrower than the one that the CCP intended to set.
That's why in every single movement, people tend to act like "a leftist
rather than a rightist." As a result, a movement is oftentimes "enlarged"
beyond its intended scale, because people at different levels voluntarily
impose restrictions on themselves to ensure their own safety. The lower
the level, the crueler the movement became. Such society-wide voluntary
intensification of terror stems from the CCP's random killings.
In its long history of killing, the
CCP has metamorphosed itself into a depraved serial killer. Through killing,
it satisfies its perverted sense of the ultimate power of deciding people's
life and death. Through killing, it eases its own innermost fear. Through
killing, it suppresses social unrest and dissatisfaction caused by its
earlier murders. Today, the compounded bloody debts of the CCP have made
a benevolent solution impossible. It can only rely on intense pressure
and totalitarian rule to maintain its existence until its final moment.
Despite occasionally disguising itself through redressing its murder victims,
the CCP's bloodthirsty nature has never changed. It will be even less likely
to change in the future. |
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Notes:
[1] Mao Zedong's letter to his wife
Jiang Qing (1966).
[2] Superstructure in the context of
Marxist social theory refers to the way of interaction between human subjectivity
and the material substance of society.
[3] Hu Feng, scholar and literary critic,
was opposed to the doctrinarian literature policy of the CCP. He was expelled
from the Party in 1955 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
[4] The Analects of Confucius
.
[5] Leviticus 19:18.
[6] Marx, Communist Manifesto
(1848).
[7] Mao Zedong, The People's Democratic
Dictatorship (1949).
[8] Mao Zedong, "We Must Fully Promote
[the Suppression of Reactionaries] So Every Family Is Informed." (March
30, 1951).
[9] Mao Zedong, "We must forcefully
and accurately strike the reactionaries." (1951)
[10] The Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping
(1851 - 1864), also known as the Taiping Rebellion, was one of the bloodiest
conflicts in Chinese history. It was a clash between the forces of Imperial
China and those inspired by a self-proclaimed mystic of the Hakka cultural
group named Hong Xiuquan, who was also a Christian convert. At least 30
million people are believed to have died.
[11] From the excerpt of the book published
by the Hong Kong based Chengming magazine (www.chengmingmag.com),
October issue, 1996.
[12] The Great Leap Forward (1958 –
1960) was a campaign by the CCP to jumpstart China's industries, particularly
the steel industry. It is widely seen as a major economic disaster.
[13] Published in February 1994 by the
Red Flag Publishing House. The quote was translated by the translator.
[14] Unit of Chinese land measurement.
1 mu = 0.165 acre.
[15] Peng Dehuai (1898-1974): Communist
Chinese general and political leader. Peng was the chief commander in the
Korean War, vice-premier of the State Council, Politburo member, and Minister
of Defense from 1954-1959. He was removed from his official posts after
disagreeing with Mao's Leftist approaches at the CCP's Lushan Plenum in
1959.
[16] De Jaegher, Raymond J., Enemy
Within . Guild Books, Catholic Polls, Incorporated (1968).
[17] The Daxing Massacre occurred in
August 1966 during the change of the Party secretary of Beijing. At that
time, a speech was made by the Minister of Public Security, Xie Fuzhi,
in a meeting with the Public Security Bureau of Beijing regarding no intervention
with the Red Guards' actions against the "black five classes." Such a speech
was soon relayed to a Standing Committee meeting of the Daxin Public Security
Bureau. After the meeting, the Daxin Public Security Bureau immediately
took action and formed a plan to incite the masses in Daxin County to kill
the "dark five classes."
[18] Zheng Yi, Scarlet Memorial
(Taipei: Chinese Television Publishing House, 1993). This book is also
available in English: Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern
China , by Yi Zheng, translated and edited by T. P. Sym (Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1998.)
[19] The "old society," as the CCP calls
it, refers to the period prior to 1949 and the "new society" refers to
the period after 1949 when the CCP took control over the country.
[20] The Strait Jacket is a jacket-shaped
torture implement. The victim's arms are twisted and tied with a rope on
the back and then pulled to the front from over the head; this torture
can instantly cripple one's arms. After that, the victim is forcefully
put into the Strait Jacket and hung up by the arms. The most direct consequence
of this cruel torture is the fracture of the bones in the shoulder, elbow,
wrist, and back, causing the victim to die in unbearable pain. Several
Falun Gong practitioners have died from this torture. Visit the following
links for more information:
Chinese: http://search.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/30/85430.html
English: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/10/52274.html
[21] In 1930, Mao ordered the Party
to kill thousands of Party members, Red Army soldiers, and innocent civilians
in Jiangxi province in an attempt to consolidate his power in the CCP-controlled
areas. Visit the following link for more information:
Chinese: http://kanzhongguo.com/news/articles/4/4/27/64064.html
[22] Gao Gang and Rao Shushi were both
members of the CCP Central Committee. After an unsuccessful bid in a power
struggle, in 1954, they were accused of plotting to split the Party and
were subsequently expelled from the Party.
[23] Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) was second
in prominence to Mao in the history of the CCP. He was a leading figure
in the CCP and Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until
his death.
[24] Wang Xiangen, Documentary of
Supporting Vietnam and Fighting with America . (Beijing: International
Cultural Publishing Company, 1990)
[25] Zhang Zhixin was an intellectual
who was tortured to death by the CCP during the Great Cultural Revolution
for criticizing Mao's failure in the Great Leap Forward and being outspoken
in telling the truth. Prison guards stripped off her clothes many times,
handcuffed her hands to her back and threw her into male prison cells to
let male prisoners gang rape her until she became insane. The prison feared
she would shout slogans to protest when she was being executed, so they
sliced open her throat before her execution.
[26] From Laogai Research Foundation
October 12, 2004 report: http://www.laogai.org/news2/newsdetail.php?id=391
(in Chinese).
[27] One of the three tools (means of
production, modes of production and relations of production) that Marx
used to analyze social class. Relations of production refers to the relationship
between the people who own productive tools and those who do not, e.g.,
the relationship between landlord and tiller or the relationship between
capitalist and worker.
[28] From Mencius , Book 3. Penguin
Classics series, translated by D.C. Lau.
[29] By Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), prominent
Chinese educator, writer and government official from the Northern Song
Dynasty. This quote was from his well-known prose, "Climbing the Yueyang
Tower."
[30] By Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), an eminent
scholar of the early Qing Dynasty.
[31] From Mencius , Book 7. Penguin
Classics series, translated by D.C. Lau.
[32] Three-Family Village was the pen
name of three writers in the 1960s, Deng Kuo, Wu Han and Liao Mosha. Wu
was the author of a play, "Hai Rui Resigning from His Post," which Mao
considered a political satire about his relationship with General Peng
Dehuai.
[33] A Chinese folk legend, the White-Haired
Girl is the story of a female immortal living in a cave who had supernatural
abilities to reward virtue and punish vice, support the righteous and restrain
the evil. However, in the Chinese "modern" drama, opera, and ballet, she
was described as a girl who was forced to flee to a cave after her father
was beaten to death for refusing to marry her to an old landlord. She became
white-haired for lack of nutrition. Under the pens of the CCP writers,
this was transformed into one of the most well-known "modern" dramas in
China to incite class hatred of landlords.
[34] Lin Biao (1907-1971), one of the
senior CCP leaders, served under Mao Zedong as a member of the Politburo,
as Vice Chairman (1958) and Defense Minister (1959). Lin is regarded as
the architect of China's Great Cultural Revolution. Lin was designated
as Mao's successor in 1966 but fell out of favor in 1970. Sensing his downfall,
Lin reportedly became involved in a failed coup and attempted to flee to
the USSR once the alleged plot was exposed. His plane crashed in Mongolia
on his flight from prosecution, resulting in his death.
[35] Yu Luoke was a human rights thinker
and fighter who was killed by the CCP during the Cultural Revolution. His
monumental essay "On Family Background" written on January 18, 1967 was
one that enjoyed the widest circulation and the most enduring influence
of all the essays reflecting the non-CCP thoughts during the years of the
Cultural Revolution. Lin Zhao, a Beijing University student majoring in
journalism, was classified as a rightist in 1957 for her independent thinking
and outspoken criticism of the communist movement. She was charged with
conspiracy to overthrow the people's democratic dictatorship and arrested
in 1960. In 1962, she was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment. She was
killed by the CCP on April 29, 1968 as a counter-revolutionary.
[36] From http://www.laojiao.org/64/article0211.html
(in Chinese).
[37] From "An open letter from Song
Meiling to Liao Chengzhi" (August 17, 1982).
Source: http://www.blog.edu.cn/more.asp?name=fainter&id=16445
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