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Persecution

China · Government / Chinese Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1950–1952Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1950

Mao Tse-Tung1950

Government / Chinese Communist Party

Mao orders the persecution of "counter-revolutionaries" which causes the deaths of 710,000 people

1951

Mao Tse-Tung1951

Government / Chinese Communist Party

The communists conduct mass trials against "counterrevolutionaries"

1952

Mao Tse-Tung1952

Government / Chinese Communist Party

Mao orders the persecution of landlords which causes the deaths of about one million people

Names involved

Mao Tse-Tung

Provenance

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