Mao’s China · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Dao County massacre (1967)
On the Mao’s China map as “Dao county”
Aug–Oct 1967 — In Dao county, Hunan, local militia and officials, claiming a plot by “class enemies”, killed 4,193 people and drove 326 to suicide in about two months, children among the dead; across Lingling prefecture an official investigation in 1984–86 counted more than 9,000 dead. Most victims came from families labelled landlord or rich peasant.
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- Cultural Revolution (chapter 9 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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