Local authorities and "evil things" at the Museum of the Cultural Revolution:
according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper, signs showing the way to the museum have been covered over with banners that read "Core socialist values propaganda exercise," among other slogans, or in places by the Chinese flag.
At the museum itself, a statue of Marshal Ye Jianying, who spearheaded the coup that overthrew the Gang of Four and put an end to the Cultural Revolution, has been masked with bamboo scaffolding and swathed in sheets of plastic, the paper said.
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Local residents from Shantou told RFA in 2006 that attacks and beatings were commonplace during political "struggle sessions," and the museum sits near an unofficial cemetery of victims of the turmoil.
Every official in Shantou was dragged out into public and ‘struggled against,' according to contemporary accounts. Throughout the course of these struggle sessions all of these officials were either beaten to death or shot and killed.
Others died in widespread fighting between the armed militia groups belonging to different political "factions," they said.
Of these, 70 are buried in graves all sizes scattered around the slopes of Tashan, including one common grave where 28 people are buried together.
Cai said there has been no full public debate on the era in Chinese history, when neighbors, colleagues, and families denounced, attacked, killed, and even ate one another in a frenzy of political violence.
Local authorities and "evil things" at the Museum of the Cultural Revolution:
according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper, signs showing the way to the museum have been covered over with banners that read "Core socialist values propaganda exercise," among other slogans, or in places by the Chinese flag.
At the museum itself, a statue of Marshal Ye Jianying, who spearheaded the coup that overthrew the Gang of Four and put an end to the Cultural Revolution, has been masked with bamboo scaffolding and swathed in sheets of plastic, the paper said.
(...)
Local residents from Shantou told RFA in 2006 that attacks and beatings were commonplace during political "struggle sessions," and the museum sits near an unofficial cemetery of victims of the turmoil.
Others died in widespread fighting between the armed militia groups belonging to different political "factions," they said.
Every official in Shantou was dragged out into public and ‘struggled against,' according to contemporary accounts. Throughout the course of these struggle sessions all of these officials were either beaten to death or shot and killed.
Of these, 70 are buried in graves all sizes scattered around the slopes of Tashan, including one common grave where 28 people are buried together.
Cai said there has been no full public debate on the era in Chinese history, when neighbors, colleagues, and families denounced, attacked, killed, and even ate one another in a frenzy of political violence.
Local authorities and "evil things" at the Museum of the Cultural Revolution:
according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper, signs showing the way to the museum have been covered over with banners that read "Core socialist values propaganda exercise," among other slogans, or in places by the Chinese flag.
At the museum itself, a statue of Marshal Ye Jianying, who spearheaded the coup that overthrew the Gang of Four and put an end to the Cultural Revolution, has been masked with bamboo scaffolding and swathed in sheets of plastic, the paper said.