China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

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China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby Michael on Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:05 pm

An interview with the author of a book about the massacre of 9,000 innocent people in rural Hunan during the Cultural Revolution.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/01/13/china-hidden-massacres-tan-hecheng/
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Re: China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby yeniseri on Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:45 am

This is just the tip of the iceburg!
Many were sent to the countryside for re-education ???, mini pogroms for those who failed to follow the party line and the lucky got to keep their life and say nothing.

Even Wang Peisheng (Wu style practitioner) and he was the lucky one but allegedly he refused to go along with a part lapdog and he was sent to be disciplined.
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Re: China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby Michael on Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:13 am

I think the author's take on the government today is perfectly accurate as well. And they are doing everything possible to prevent any changes whatsoever and preventing any social organizations that are not completely under their control from developing. They have made any peaceful transition impossible.
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Re: China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby Michael on Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:49 am

This is not pleasant reading, but covers some details about the massacres.

When the Chinese Were Unspeakable
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/tan-hecheng-chinese-unspeakable/
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Re: China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby marvin8 on Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:13 am

I didn't read the articles entirely. However, it sounds similar to what happened in Indonesia.

Here's a documentary about it, The Act of Killing:
http://cosmosdocumentaries3.blogspot.co ... ntary.html
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Re: China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng

Postby Michael on Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:58 pm

After watching the first 10 minutes of The Act of Killing, one of the biggest differences is that during the Cultural Revolution when these massacres occurred, there was no resistance at all in China, but in Indonesia there was some. The government had already been in power 20 years, had already starved, murdered and terrorized tens of millions, so this chapter of history was just wanton terrorization simply to display power, and possibly to reinforce some of the core falsehoods of party ideology about internal enemies.
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