Word: chan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chan was assigned to the 136-man "pistol squad" that functioned as i) a bodyguard for visiting dignitaries, and 2) an agency to ferret out counter-revolutionary activity. Within a year, Chan was a party member; by 1951 he was promoted to leadership of the pistol squad and was in charge of security arrangements during Mao Tse-tung's first visit to the city. Says Chan: "Had I known what I know now, I would have shot...
...importance enabled Chan to avenge his father's death. He gave the name of the killer to Tan Chengwen, chief of the regional PSB, and says matter-of-factly: "Tan sent off the order for his execution. No trial was necessary...
Listening to Bandits. Chan felt different about Communism's summary justice when two comrades he liked were purged for being rightist deviationists. "It made me feel something was wrong." He was switched to the "tiger squad," which launched a drive on businessmen suspected of holding out on taxes or hoarding gold. Chan claims he saw police figures in 1953 listing, for Canton alone, 8,000 executions and 10,000 suicides. Chan says now: "I wanted to quit, but it was as if I were an orphan. I felt I had no place...
...escape from the tiger squad by entering Whampoa Military Academy near Canton, where he spent two years "listening to those bandits who took part in the Long March preach about the goodness of Communism." Chan was still gullible enough to take at face value the "hundred flowers" campaign, which called for frank criticism, and industriously sent in 14 reports, castigating everything from party spying to forced labor...
...pains, he was unofficially suspended from the party, and one morning in October 1958 Chan was arrested on charges of criticizing party policies and helping people to evade the law. Chan hastily scribbled a 37-page "confession," but it did him little good. He was sentenced to 3½ years of labor reform...