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The Nathu La clashes started on 11 September 1967, when China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La, and lasted till 15 September 1967. In October 1967, another military duel took place at Cho La and ended on the same day.
10 gru 2021 · The collapse of civilian governments in early 1967 and the subsequent period of armed factional warfare was common across China, and the suppression of conflicts and the rebuilding of political order generated far more casualties than the factional warfare (Walder Reference Walder 2014).
10 gru 2021 · Evidence from investigations conducted in China in the 1980s reveals the extent to which the killings were part of a province-wide suppression of rebel insurgents, carried out by village militia, who also targeted large numbers of noncombatants.
A 1968 map of Beijing showing streets and landmarks renamed during the Cultural Revolution.
The Guangxi Massacre (simplified Chinese: 广西大屠杀; traditional Chinese: 廣西大屠殺; pinyin: Guǎngxī dàtúshā) comprised a series of lynchings and massacres in the Chinese province of Guangxi between 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).
During the violent early years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the province of Guangxi experienced by far the largest death toll of any comparable region. One explanation for the extreme violence emphasizes a process of collective killings focused on households in rural communities that were long categorized as class enemies by the regime.
11 lis 2023 · Civil War in Guangxi addresses one of the most unsettling aspects of China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution: the staggering level of violence that took place in the Guangxi Region in 1968, which far exceeded what happened in the rest of China in terms of both sheer death tolls and the particularly brutal manner in which mass killings were ...