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The Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing
This is the seventh of Nine Commentaries on the CCP.
Foreword The 55-year history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is written with blood and lies. The stories behind this bloody history are not only brutally inhumane but also 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 if 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 and the world reaches peace again, 7 or 8 years after that, the chaos needs to happen again.” [1] In other words, there should be a cultural revolution every 7 or 8 years and a crowd of people needs to be killed every 7 or 8 years. There are a supporting ideology and practical requirements behind the CCP’s slaughters. Ideologically, the CCP believes in the “dictatorship of the proletariat" and "constant 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; and “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 economic problems were basically solved. Establishing the culture of the ruling class also called for slaughter. The suppressions of the Hu Feng anti-Party group [2] and of the anti-rightists eliminated the intellectuals. Killing the Christians, Taoists and Buddhists solved the problem of religions. Mass murders during the Cultural Revolution established, culturally and politically, the CCP’s absolute leadership. The Tiananmen Massacre was used to prevent political crisis and squelch democratic demands. The persecution of Falun Gong is 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 over and China’s economy collapsed after the Cultural Revolution), political crisis (people not following the Party’s orders or 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, all these political movements were used to revive the evil specter of the CCP and incite 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 CCP 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 trigger the CCP’s comprehensive killing mechanism. In truth, periodical killing is required by the CCP, and these incidents serve to disguise the Party’s need to kill. Without these painful lessons, people might begin to think the CCP was improving and start to demand democracy, like those idealistic students in the 1989 democratic movement. Recurring slaughter every seven or eight 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 wants to recover China’s cultural 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, giving up this mechanism of murder would encourage people to take vengeance for the CCP’s criminal acts. Copious and thorough killing was not enough; it had to be done in a most brutal fashion to effectively intimidate the populace, especially early on when the CCP was expanding its government. To instill the greatest terror, the targets of this destruction were arbitrarily chosen, so that no group felt secure. In every political movement, the CCP used the strategy of genocide. The “suppression of reactionaries” did not suppress the “actions” of the so-called reactionaries, but the “people” who were 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. After 1949, the CCP 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 arbitrary killing done by the CCP includes brutal slayings of its own members in order to remove dissidents who value a sense of humanity over the Party’s principles. The CCP’s rule of terror falls equally on itself in an attempt to maintain an invincible fortress. In most countries, people show caring and love for one another. They hold respect for life and trust in a higher power. In the East, people say, “Do not impose on others what you would not have yourself [3].” In the West, people say “Love thy neighbor as thyself [4].” Conversely, the CCP holds that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles [5].” In order to keep 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 build the mentality that “the best you can hope for is to avoid being persecuted.” All the lessons taught by brutal suppression enable the CCP to maintain its rule. Besides the destruction of countless lives, the CCP also destroyed the soul of the Chinese people. Many people have become conditioned to react to the CCP’s threats by surrendering all their principles and reason. These people’s souls have died - something more frightening than physical death. I. Horrendous Massacre 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 [6].” In other words, even before the CCP took over Beijing, it had already made up its mind to carry out tyranny under the euphemism of the “People’s Democratic Dictatorship.” We will give a few examples. Suppression of the Reactionaries and Land Reform In March of 1950, the CCP announced, “Orders to Strictly Suppress Reactionary Elements,” also known as the movement of “Suppression of the reactionaries.” Unlike all the emperors who granted amnesty to the whole 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 to kill the reactionaries openly in large scale [7].” 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 kill as many as possible and should not stop too soon.” Mao even recommended that “in rural areas, to kill the reactionaries, there should be an average of 1/1000 of the total population killed…in the cities, it should be less than that. [8]” 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 within the scope of the CCP’s concern. “The People’s Republic of China Regulations for Punishing the Reactionaries,” announced in 1951, said that even those who “spread rumors” can be “immediately executed.” While the suppression of reactionaries was being implemented, land reform was also taking place on a large scale. The CCP had already started land reform within its occupied areas in the late 1920s. On the surface, land reform appeared to be a means for an ideal peaceful nation in which all would have land to farm, but it was really just an excuse to kill. Tao Zhu, who ranked 4th in the CCP, had a slogan for land reform: “every village bleeds, every household fights,” indicating that in every village the landowners must die. Land reform can be achieved without killing. The Taiwanese government implemented land reform by purchasing the property from landowners. As the CCP originated from a group of thugs who only knew how to rob, they naturally needed to kill the victims, so that the victims could never retaliate. 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. CCP members or aggressive individuals were planted in the crowd to shout “We should kill him!” and landowners and rich farmers were then killed on the spot. At that time, whoever owned land in the villages was called 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 disasters were called “kind bullies;” and those who did nothing were called “non-bullies.” The classification was meaningless, however, for all the “bullies” ended up being executed right away regardless of their “bully” category. By the end of 1952, the CCP published the number of “reactionary individuals” it killed: over 2.4 million people. 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 respectable gentlemen in the village who had been the local autonomous leaders, and realized complete control by installing a Party member in each village. Second, a huge amount of money was obtained by stealing and robbing. 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 affected the countryside, while the subsequent “Three Anti Campaign” and “Five Anti Campaign” (also called the "Three-striking campaign" and "Five-striking campaign") could be regarded as the corresponding genocide in cities. The “Three Anti Campaign” began in December 1951 and targeted corruption, waste and bureaucracy. Some corrupt CCP officials were executed. Soon afterwards, CCP attributed the corruption of its government officials to temptation by capitalists. Accordingly, the “Five Anti Campaign,” against bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts, and espionage of state economic information, was launched in January 1952. The “Five Anti Campaign” was essentially the taking of property and even life from the capitalists. 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 are airborne 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 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 resources. They had no choice but to end their lives, but they didn’t dare to jump into the Huangpu River, because if their bodies could not be found, the government 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. People didn’t dare to walk next to tall buildings in Shanghai during that period for fear of being crushed by people jumping from the windows. According to Facts of the Political Campaigns after the Founding of the People’s Republic of China co-edited by four departments 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 500 were arrested, over 60 committed suicide, and 12 died from unnatural causes. In the ensuing suppression of the reactionaries, over 21,300 people were executed, and over 4,300 committed suicide or disappeared. The Great Famine The highest death toll was recorded during China’s Great Famine shortly after the Great Leap Forward. [9] The chapter “Great Famine” in the book Historical Record of the People’s Republic of China published in February 1994 by Red Flag Publishing House 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 greatest famine of the world in this century.” The Great Famine was distorted as a “Three-Year Natural Disaster” by the CCP. In fact, those three years actually had good weather conditions without any massive 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 Liuzhou Prefecture Committee of CCP, personally fabricated the shocking output of “65,000 kilograms of paddy rice per mu [10]” in Huanjiang County. This was right after the Lushan Plenum when the Suppression of Right Wing campaign was at its peak. 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 output no matter how many people in Liuzhou would die. Some peasants were deprived of everything, and left with only some handfuls of rice hidden in the urine basin. The Party Committee of Xunle District, Huanjiang County even issued an order to forbid cooking, to prevent the peasants from eating the crops. Patrolmen searched the countryside 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 wild vegetables 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 patrolmen to block roadways to prevent victims from escaping the famine. Anyone caught trying to take crops from the grain depots was labeled as a counter-revolutionary and was shot. Peasants were being starved in Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Guangxi provinces. Still, they were forced to take part in irrigation work, dam construction, and steel-making. Many dropped to the ground and never got up again. Peasants died out family by family. Those who survived had no strength to bury the dead. Entire villages died out as families starved to death one after another. In the most serious famines in China’s history prior to the CCP, families have exchanged children to eat, but nobody ever ate their 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 distorted them as a noble honor, and claimed that the CCP was leading people to bravely 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 [11] was stripped of his power for speaking out for the people. A group of government officials and employees who dared to speak the truth were dismissed from their posts, arrested and investigated. After that, no one dared to speak out. At the time of the Great Famine, instead of reporting the truth, they concealed the vast number of deaths from starvation in order to protect their official positions. Gansu province even refused food aid from Shaanxi Province, with the claim of having too great a food surplus in Gansu. This Great Famine could be considered the CCP’s qualification test for government officials: if they resisted telling the truth in the face of the starvation of tens of millions of people, they met the CCP’s criterion. The CCP would then know that nothing else, such as human emotions or their conscience, could lead them astray from the Party line. After the Great Famine, the responsible provincial officials merely participated in the formality of self-criticism to settle it. 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, to the 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 by a Yugoslav reporter, Hu Yaobang, the former general party secretary said, “At that time nearly 100 million people were implicated, which was the one tenth of the Chinese population.” Facts of the Political Campaigns after the Founding of the People’s Republic of China compiled by the CCP History Research Center reported that, “In May 1984, after 31 months of intensive investigation, verification and recalculation by the Central Committee, the figures related to the Cultural Revolution were: 4.2 million arrested and investigated, 1.7 million died of unnatural causes, 135,000 people were labeled as counter-revolutionaries and executed, 237,000 people were killed and 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. The beginning of Cultural Revolution triggered a wave of suicides. Many famous intellectuals, including Lao She, Fu Lei, Jian Bozan, Wu Han and Chu Anping ended their own lives at the time. The Cultural Revolution was the most extremely leftist period. Killing became a competitive way to exhibit one’s revolutionary standing, and the means for eliminating “class enemies” was very cruel and brutal. The policy of “Reform and Opening” allowed information to be circulated, which made it possible for foreign reporters to witness the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Foreign viewers saw tanks crushing live college students to death on their televisions. Ten years later, on July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin began his crackdown on Falun Gong. By the end of 2002, inside information confirmed that the covered-up death cases actually amounted over 7,000 in detention centers, forced labor camps, prisons and mental hospitals, with an average of seven people being killed every day. In public records, the killings by the CCP nowadays appear to have greatly declined from the previous numbers in the millions. There are two reasons for this misperception. First, the CCP culture has warped the minds of the Chinese people to become detached and cynical. Second, because of excessive corruption and embezzlement by CCP government officials, the Chinese economy has declined into a “transfusion economy,” depending on foreign capital to sustain its economic development and social stability. The economic sanctions after the Tiananmen Square Massacre remain fresh in the CCP’s memory, and they know that killing openly results in the withdrawal of foreign capital and endangers the totalitarian regime. The slaughter has not actually declined, but the means for killing the innocent have become more covert, as the CCP furtively hides the evidence. II. Extremely Cruel Ways of Killing 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 were, the more it could serve its purpose of terrifying people. 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 and American writer Irene Corbally Kuhn, former U.S. President Hoover commented that the book exposed the naked terror of communist movements. He would recommend it to everyone in the country who was willing to understand such an evil force in this world. In this book, De Jaegher and Kuhn told stories about how the CCP used violence to terrify people into submission. For instance, one day the Communist Party 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 people. After announcing the victims’ fabricated charges, the communist leader 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 ruthless, powerful young communist soldier with strong arms. The soldier went behind the first victim, quickly raised the 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 and 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 in the chaos. The executioner chopped 13 times and 13 heads fell onto the ground. After that, many communist soldiers came over, cut the victims' bodies 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 them, and lined them up to return to school. De Jaegher and Kuhn often saw children being forced to watch killings. The children became used to the bloody killing, and 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 and Kuhn wrote that a CCP member in Shanxi province invented a terrible torture. One day when he was wandering in the city, he stopped and stared at a big boiling vat in front of a restaurant. Later he purchased several giant vats, and immediately arrested some anti-communists. 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 and Kuhn 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 a whole human 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. The father died in minutes. The Red Terror during "Red August" and the Guangxi Cannibalism After gaining its absolute control over the country, the CCP did not stop 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 a communist leader Song Renqiong, put a Red Guard sleeve emblem on Mao. When Mao learned Song Binbin's name means gentle and polite, he said, "We need more violence." Song changed her name to Song Yaowu (literally meaning "want violence".) Violent armed attacks soon spread 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 killed. A typical example was in Daxing County near Beijing, where from August 27 to September 1 of 1966, a total of 325 people were killed in 48 local Brigades of 13 People’s Communes. The oldest killed was 80 years old, the youngest only 38 days. Twenty-two entire households were killed with not one member 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 Massacre by Yu Luowen) [12] The Guangxi cannibalism was even more inhumane than the Daxing Massacre. Writer Zheng Yi, Author of a book on the Guangxi cannibalism, described the event as taking place in three stages. 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 stage when the terror was 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, 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. The grand and yet dreadful scenes were adorned with flying flags and slogans. The third stage was the crazy stage when cannibalism became a massive widespread movement. In Wuxuan County, like wild dogs eating corpses during an epidemic, people were crazily eating other people. Often victims were first "publicly criticized," and killing happened every time thereafter, followed by 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 [13] 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, 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 the plastic bags to cover practitioners’ heads in an attempt to make practitioners 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 snakebite. The victim's skin turns red, broken, burned and festering. 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. 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 have stripped off female practitioners’ clothes and thrown them into prison cells filled with male prisoners who have then raped them. They force Falun Gong practitioners to wear “straight jackets [14],” 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 windows. 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 ceilings, floors and walls, which cause their injuries to fester. They also have dogs, snakes and scorpions bite the practitioners, and inject them with nerve-damaging drugs. These are just some of the ways that practitioners are tortured in the labor camps. III. Cruel Struggle within the Party Because the CCP is based on Party principles instead of morality and justice, the loyalty of its members, especially senior officials, to the supreme leader is a central question. Because of this, the Party needs to create an atmosphere of terror by killing its members so the survivors see that when the supreme dictator wants someone to die, that person will die tragically. 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) [15] that only a few survived to fight in the war. In the city of Yan'an, the Party carried out a “Rectification” campaign. After becoming politically established, it eliminated Gao Gang, Rao Shushi [16], 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 tragically. On the day of his 70th birthday, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai [17] 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, he was completely out of shape, and 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. IV. Exporting the Revolution, Killing People Overseas In addition to killing people within China using all kinds of methods, the CCP also participated in killing 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 struggles,” “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 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. V. The Destruction of Family 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 has become a household name due to tons of reportage on her stories. Many people know that she suffered physical tortures, gang rape and mental torture. Finally, she was driven insane and shot to death after her throat 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.” One university lecturer had a happy family, but his family encountered a disaster during the campaign to correct the earlier anti-rightist movement. At the time of the anti-rightist movement, the person who would become his wife was dating someone who was labeled a rightist. That person was later sent to a remote area and suffered greatly. Because the young girl could not go along, she gave him up and married the lecturer. When her beloved finally came back to their hometown, the woman, now a mother of several children, had no 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. The family is the only safe haven for these innocent people. 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 was forced to divorce. For many people, family members’ betrayal—reporting on, fighting, publicly criticizing, and/or denouncing them—is the last straw that breaks their spirit. Many people have committed suicide as a result. VI. The Patterns and Consequences of Killing The CCP’s Ideology of Killing The CCP has always touted itself as being talented and creative in its development of Marxism-Leninism, but the truth is that the CCP creatively developed an unprecedented evil in history and around the world. It uses the communist ideology of ultimate harmony to deceive the public and intellectuals, uses the industrial revolution to destroy belief and promote complete atheism, 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 is against mainstream Chinese traditions. The CCP invented a complete theory and operating structure of “revolution” and “constant 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 (the culture of the ruling class) under the dictatorship of the proletariat. According to its theory, the economic base decides the superstructure, but the superstructure can in turn act on the economic base. In order to strengthen the superstructure, especially the Party’s regime, it must first start the revolution from the economic base, which includes: (1) Killing the landowners to solve the relations of production [19] in the countryside, and At the superstructure level, 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 toward the Party. The CCP has repeatedly launched campaigns to reform the thoughts of the intellectuals. They have accused intellectuals of bourgeois individualism, bourgeois ideology, super-political opinion, super-class ideology, liberalism, etc. The CCP stripped intellectuals of their dignity through brainwashing them and eliminating their conscience. The CCP eliminated the independent thinking and many other good qualities of the intellectuals, such as speaking out for justice, and devoting one’s life to justice, so as not “to be moved by poverty, thwarted by violence, nor indulged by wealth… [20]” “One should be the first to worry for the future of the state and the last to claim his share of happiness [21],” “Every ordinary man shall hold himself responsible for his nation's success and failure [22],” and “a gentleman should do good to his nation when wealthy, and should perfect himself when poor.” (2) Launching a cultural revolution and killing people in order to gain the CCP’s absolute cultural and political leadership. The CCP first started with mass campaigs inside and outside the Party, and began killing in the areas of literature, art, theatre, history and education. At first, the CCP killed several famous people such as the “Three-Family Village [23],” 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 to the stage that all the people around the country including inside the Party and army were killing each other. Armed fighting eliminated the enemy physically; cultural attacks killed the enemy mentally. 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 practice of eliminating human nature. (3) CCP’s Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th 1989 in order to resolve 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 freedom of press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. During the Tiananmen Massacre, the CCP even staged scenes of people burning military vehicles and killing soldiers in order to instigate hatred between the army and civilians, which led to the tragedy of the People’s Army massacring its people. (4) Killing people with different beliefs Controlling belief is the lifeline of the CCP. In order to let its heresy deceive people for the time being, 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 started the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by taking 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 hide the truth The people’s right to know is another weak point of the CCP; it also kills people in order to block information. In the past, “listening to the enemy’s radio broadcasting” was a felony that could send people to prison. Recently, in response to multiple incidents of the interception of the state-owned satellite or cable television system aiming at clarifying truth the persecution of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin sent down 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 closely. (6) The Party seeking its own interests through taking away the right to life The CCP’s theory of continuous revolution actually means it will never 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 legally protect their rights, the CCP uses violence, waving its butcher’s knife toward so-called “leaders” 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 on June 4th 1989, when it had to temporarily mobilize its military force. However, while forcing its people into a dead end, 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 in different times and different places, the CCP killed people before, is killing people now, and will continue to kill in the future in order to maintain absolute control. Different Killing Patterns under Different Circumstances A. Propaganda Prior to Action The CCP has used many different ways to kill people depending on the period of time. In most situations, the CCP created propaganda before actually killing anyone. The CCP would then say “only killing could relieve the public’s indignation,” as if people had requested the CCP to kill. In fact, the CCP instigated the public’s indignation. For example, the drama "White Haired Girl” [24], which totally distorts a folk legend, was used as a tool in propaganda campaigns. The stories of rent collection and water dungeons told in the drama, “Liu Wencai,” are fabricated too. The purpose of these false stories is to “educate” people to hate landowners. The CCP commonly demonizes their enemies, even China’s president. In particular, the CCP staged a self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square in January 2001 to incite people to hate 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. The CCP could only deceive Chinese people in the past, but now it also deceives people around the world. B. Instigating the Masses to Kill People The CCP not only kills people through the mechanism of its dictatorship, but also provokes people to kill each other. Even if CCP had some regulations when it began to persecute and kill, by the time it incited people to join in, nothing could stop the slaughter. For example, when the CCP was carrying out its land reform, they allowed any local land reform committee willfully to execute landowners. C. Destroying One’s Spirit before Killing His Physical Body Another pattern is to crush one’s spirit before killing the human body. In China’s history, even the leaders of the most cruel and ferocious dynasty in China’s history, the Qin (221 – 207 BC), never destroyed people’s spirits. The CCP has never given people the chance to die like a martyr. They promulgated policies such as lightening the sentences of those who offered concessions, making them stricter for those who resisted, and “lowering one's head to admit the crime is the only way to survive.” The CCP forces people to give up their own thoughts and beliefs, making them die without dignity. Those who died with dignity would encourage more followers. Only when people die in a humiliating and shameful way can the CCP achieve its purpose of controlling people. The reason that the CCP persecutes Falun Gong with extreme cruelty and ferocity 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 destroy them physically. D. Killing People by Alliances and Alienation When killing people, the CCP would use both the carrot and the stick by befriending and alienating people. The CCP always tries to attack a small portion of the population, around 5 percent. The CCP considers the majority of the population to be good and only needing to be “educated.” We can divide the CCP’s educational methods into two parts: education through terror, and education through kindness. 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 kindness lets people see that if they can earn the trust of the CCP and stand in alliance with the CCP, they will not only be safe but also have a good chance to be promoted or gain other benefits. Lin Biao [25] 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 Secret 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, the CCP eliminates the movements before they can grow by arresting the “ringleaders” and sentencing them to severe punishment. As freedom and human rights become the common understanding and trend throughout the world, the CCP doesn’t sentence any Falun Gong practitioner to the death penalty. However, under Jiang Zemin’s instigation of “no one is responsible for killing Falun Gong practitioners,” Falun Gong practitioners have tragically been killed all over the country. Although the Chinese Constitution stipulates the citizens’ right of appeal, the CCP uses plainclothes policeman or hires local thugs to stop, arrest and send appellants back home, sometimes even putting them into labor camps. F. Killing One Person to Warn Others The persecutions of Zhang Zhixin, Yu Luoke and Lin Zhao are all such examples. [26] G. Using Suppression to Conceal the Truth of Killing Famous people with international influence are usually suppressed, but not killed. The purpose of this is to conceal the killing of those who have no influence or power and whose deaths will not draw public attention. For example, during the campaign of suppressing the reactionaries, the CCP did not kill high-ranking generals such as Long Yun, Fu Zuoyi and Du Yuming, instead killing lower level KMT officers and soldiers. The CCP’s use of killing over a long period of time has 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 people cheered the attacks on Mainland Chinese Internet message boards. Advocates of “unrestricted war” against the U.S. and the Western bloc were everywhere, making people tremble with fear. Conclusion 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. Over 50 million people died in the movements listed above alone. In addition, the CCP also killed people of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and other places; information on these incidents is difficult to unearth. Besides those who have died, 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 tragedy that leaves deep scars on the souls of the victims’ family members. As the Japan-based Yomiuri News once reported, the Chinese central government’s survey of all 29 provinces and direct-administrated cities at that time [27] showed that about 600 million people were direct victims or negatively affected by the Cultural Revolution, comprising roughly half of China’s population. Stalin once said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of one million is a statistic.” When told that many people starved to death in Sichuan province, Li Jingquan, the former Sichuan Province Communist Party Secretary, remarked, “Which dynasty didn’t have people die?” Mao Zedong said that “Casualties are inevitable for any struggle. Death happens often.” This is the atheist communists’ view on life. That’s why 20 million people died as a result of persecution during Stalin’s regime, 10 percent of the population of the former USSR. The CCP has killed at least 80 million people in various persecutions, also roughly 10 percent of the nation’s population. 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 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, chief of the military, generals, ministers and others on the sacrificial altar of its evil cult. Whenever people’s sense of terror changes, the CCP will adjust the intensity of its killing. The number killed in and of itself is not the goal; the key is the consistency in its killings. The CCP has not become gentler and neither has it let go of its butcher’s knife. It is the people who 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 various large-scale historic movements, the identity, crime, and sentencing standard for victims were kept intentionally vague. To avoid being killed themselves, people would often restrict their speech and actions to “safe” levels. These restrictions even exceeded those that the CCP themselves placed on people. That’s why in every movement, people tend to act “rather leftist than rightist,” following the will of the government, and participate in the movements at the local level. Because every level of government officials wanted to expand the movement to ensure their own safety, the lower the level, the crueler the campaign 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. Notes: [1] Mao Zedong’s letter to his wife Jiang Qing (1966).
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