Los Angeles Times
Gong Xiaoxia recalls the blank expression on the man's face as he was beaten to death by a Chinese mob.
He died without a name, becoming another statistic among millions.
"I remember him so vividly, he really had no expression on his face," Gong said. "After about 10 or 20 minutes, God knows how long, someone took out a knife and hit him right into the heart."
He was then strung on a pole and left dangling and rotting for two months.
"I think the most terrible thing, when I recall that period, the most terrible thing that struck me was our indifference," said Gong, today a 38-year-old graduate student at Harvard researching her own history.
That terrible period was China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. The blinding indifference was in the name of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party.
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Gong Xiaoxia recalls the blank expression on the man's face as he was beaten to death by a Chinese mob.
He died without a name, becoming another statistic among millions.
"I remember him so vividly, he really had no expression on his face," Gong said. "After about 10 or 20 minutes, God knows how long, someone took out a knife and hit him right into the heart."
He was then strung on a pole and left dangling and rotting for two months.
"I think the most terrible thing, when I recall that period, the most terrible thing that struck me was our indifference," said Gong, today a 38-year-old graduate student at Harvard researching her own history.
That terrible period was China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. The blinding indifference was in the name of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party.
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