Based on a continuation of an essay by Sekihei, this text exposes the mass executions and repression carried out under the Chinese Communist regime. It reveals a society that denied the very notion of innate human rights, reducing individuals to mere “parts” of a revolutionary machine, and conveys the terror of a system where dissent, debate, and even personal life were forbidden.
2017-07-27

No one acknowledged, nor could acknowledge, the existence of innate “rights” with which human beings are born.
Indeed,

What follows is a continuation of a genuine essay, a true work of scholarship, by Sekihei.

Merely two months later, using the same methods, 421 “counterrevolutionaries” were executed by firing squad, and 584 were sentenced to prison terms, including life imprisonment.
On September 6, a mass execution of 318 people was carried out.
Such tragedies unfolded across the entirety of China.

Human Beings as Parts of the Revolution

In Forty Years of Chinese Communist Party Rule (1949–1989), official figures released by the Chinese government regarding these mass killings are recorded.
It is said that the number of people executed by firing squad during the “Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries” reached 710,000.
The Chinese government proudly announced this figure as a glorious achievement, but this is nothing short of madness.
It is a shameful mass slaughter of the century, far beyond the bounds of common sense.

Those labeled “counterrevolutionaries,” called “bandits,” were supposedly people who were armed, maintained bases hidden deep in mountains or jungles, and carried out continuous plundering activities.
But are there really such “bandits” who could be easily arrested overnight through denunciations by crowds?
Likewise, those accused of being “spies” were also arrested based on accusations by ordinary citizens.
Are there truly any real “spies” who could be so easily exposed by the general public?
With even a modicum of common sense, one can see that all of this is a complete lie.

Charges such as “key leaders of reactionary parties or organizations” or “leaders of reactionary sect organizations” were also vague.
The Nationalist Army led by Chiang Kai-shek had already fled to Taiwan.
It is inconceivable that hundreds of thousands of “counterrevolutionaries” would have deliberately remained behind on the Chinese mainland.
It is therefore natural to conclude that the vast majority of those executed as “counterrevolutionaries” in this suppression campaign were innocent people.

They were arrested without understanding why, subjected to a ritual called a “trial,” and then immediately executed by firing squad.
This can be called nothing other than a massacre.

Even rereading these records today sends a chill down the spine.
At the same time, when I trace my own memories of what I saw and heard during my childhood in China, I realize that killing people in the name of the “revolutionary cause” was considered entirely normal.
When I was a middle school student living in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, I remember that whenever a holiday approached, “notices” announcing death sentences were posted all over street corners throughout the city.
Looking back now, it was an abnormal sight.

Do human beings grow accustomed even to abnormal circumstances?
At that time, all the Chinese people could do was live in constant fear.
It was an era in which anyone could be killed easily, without any reason whatsoever.

That is why no awareness arose that each individual human being possesses a right to live.
People were made to think of themselves as nothing more than “tools” or “parts” within a society ruled by the Communist regime.

In the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, the slogan “We should become parts of the gigantic machine called the revolution” was prominently displayed.
No one acknowledged, nor could acknowledge, the existence of innate “rights” with which human beings are born.
Indeed, it was a society in which no one even possessed such an awareness.

Can you imagine what a society is like in which “individual life” is not permitted?
Children are born in order to create the next generation of the revolution.
Eating meals is also for the sake of accomplishing the revolution…
In short, human beings were regarded as no more than pigs.

Feeding pigs is not for the sake of the pigs themselves.
It is for the sake of those who will eat the pigs.
The idea of Mao Zedong that “the people are all pigs” had been realized in practice.

It is terrifying, yet no one could resist.
It was a society in which not only criticism but even discussion was forbidden.

To be continued.