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Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre

Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre
Part of the Cultural Revolution in China
Illustration of the establishment of the Guangdong Revolutionary Committee (1968).
Native name广东文革屠杀
LocationGuangdong Province
Date1968
July 1968 – October 1968
TargetCounter-revolutionaries, opponents of Mao Zedong thought, members of the "Five Black Categories"
Attack type
Political persecution, politicide, politically motivated violence
Deaths1,000-8,000 (Estimated)
PerpetratorsChinese Communist Party, local Revolutionary Committees
MotiveReprisals against class enemies, destruction of the Four Olds and Five Black Categories

The Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre (simplified Chinese: 广东文革屠杀; traditional Chinese: 廣東文革屠殺) was a series of massacres that took place in Guangdong Province of China during the Cultural Revolution.[1][2][3][4][5] There were 80 counties in Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution, and according to the 57 county annals which became available during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period, massacres occurred in 28 of the counties with six counties recording a death toll of over 1,000—the average death toll among all the 28 counties was 278.[1][2][5] The massacre in Yangjiang was the most serious, with over 2,600 deaths in Yangchun County alone.[2][4][6] In addition, massacres also occurred in some cities of Guangdong; in the capital city Guangzhou, for example, the massacre targeting the prisoners of Laogai resulted in the deaths of at least 187–197 people within a week of August 1967.[7]

Most of the Cultural Revolution massacres in Guangdong took place from July to October, 1968, and were led and organized by the provincial and local revolutionary committees.[1][2][4][5] The Guangdong massacre was among the most serious collective killings in China at the time, and was related to the Guangxi Massacre.[1][2][8][9] There were two major types of massacres in Guangdong: one type targeted members of the Five Black Categories (landlords, wealthy peasants, "bad influences/elements" and "right wingers") as well as their relatives, and the other type was related to political persecutions.[1][2] Moreover, in eastern Hainan, which was an administrative region of Guangdong Province at the time, massacres also occurred in places such as the Dan County (over 700 deaths).[4][5][10]

After the Cultural Revolution, some of the victims in the massacres were rehabilitated by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the Guangdong Provincial Committee of CCP during the Boluan Fanzheng period.[11] In January 1980, the Guangdong Revolutionary Committee was removed and the People's Government of Guangdong was re-established.[12]

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