belated mea culpa The Red Guards
By Liang Ruoqiao
"No offense insubordination or blame to rebel. "
In the summer of 1966 China was rocked by the Red Guard movement, a group that emerged after the urging of Chairman Mao Zedong to remove any trace of counterrevolution. Since then and for several years during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), these individuals took the lead in the Chinese socio-political events, often extreme methods impose. Today, some of the survivors bear guilt for abuses then. This is a brief review of what happened and blame their perpetrators seek to expunge materials, often without success. (Editor's note.)
had Wang Yiyuan just 16 years, a remarkable physical strength and explosive in nature than when he killed a Red Guard three years older and belonging to a rival faction. Today
Wang Yiyuan lives haunted by a recurring nightmare. According to recently told the TV station Phoenix China, often dreams of "a woman dressed in white and bloodstained, who tells me to lie (in a bed of remorse) for 10,000 years."
White Woman Wang has haunted for decades, ever since he first appeared when the boy fled after committing the murder.
After nine months in prison for murder in 1967, Wang wrote a confession of 8,000 words "urged by the feeling of guilt," which was published in the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu unofficial historical in May 2010.
what Wang calls himself their "metamorphosis into bestiality" occurred "less than five minutes" after a Red Guard more than convince him that hitting others was an expression of class struggle, a way to prove their loyalty.
The speech made the feel suddenly beardless Wang won by a youthful euphoria, which led him to embark on a fight with a guy who just five minutes earlier had protected from the excesses others, also propelled by its newly gained status as a "young fighter on the front line" of his group.
"Younger people were more vulnerable to the provocations," he said.
On August 5, 1967, after watching a Red Guard faction bashing his comrade Hongxi Li, Wang and his group could not think of anything but getting revenge. At any cost.
Trap
Blinded by the desire for revenge, Wang and his party rushed in what turned out to be a trap. Suddenly, they began to get more and more enemies in vehicles until the group of Wang outstripped by a ratio of almost 10 to one.
The danger they reacted with despair.
When a boy threw behind several red brick to the head, Wang turned and gave him two crushing blows to his attacker with his baseball bat.
Wang's bat was not the only instrument responsible for the death of Wang Hongyan, his opponent. A hole in the side of his neck showed the aftermath of a javelin attack perpetrated by one or two comrades
Wang Seeing his victim lying in a pool of blood, "I began to realize that he was a human being like me, not our enemy class. "
As she spoke in her interview with Phoenix TV, Wang was staring at the camera lens located on the right, in the study of television in Beijing.
"insane in those days, others killed, but I do. I am a murderer, "said Wang after contracting the eyelids, in response to a television interview that reached millions of Chinese viewers.
"There must be darkness within me. I have evil inside of me. "
false only his left eye seemed peaceful. The loss of the organ of vision in an accident was a kind of karmic revenge later, in his own words. He also said that other acquaintances Red Guards had died of liver cancer, leukemia or a gas leak (continued ...).
(Xinhua) 09/02/2011
Original link:
The mea culpa of the Red Guards (Town Online)
0 comments:
Post a Comment