Shaoyang County Massacre
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] According to the official statistics in 1974, from July to September of 1968, a total of 11,177 people were arrested with 7,781 imprisoned and 113 permanently disabled, while the death toll of the massacre was 991, including 699 who were forced to commit suicide.Such movement turned into a violent massacre on August 4, when the entire family of Deng Baomin (邓保民), the son of a landlord, was wiped out.[5] In the Shaoyang massacre, killing methods included live burial, stoning, burning, drowning in rivers or water tanks, beating with hoes or rods, dismembering with bamboo trees, and so on.[1][4][5][7] According to the official statistics in 1974, a total of 11,177 people were arrested during the "Black Killing Wind" with 7,781 imprisoned and 113 permanently disabled; the death toll of the massacre was 991, including 699 who were forced to commit suicide.[1][4][5] In the 1980s, 134 cases of homicides were investigated by local authorities and a number of perpetrators received criminal charges, disciplinary reprimands or were expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).