On Who Tortured & Murdered

Bian Zhongyun and the Start

of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Bian Zhongyun was the first teacher murdered by students in the Cultural Revolution. She was a fifty-year old mother of four. She was beaten and kicked,

struck with nail-studded wooden clubs and had boiling water poured over her. She was then placed in a cart and wheeled to the outside of a hospital. When she was

discovered doctors determined that she had been dead for several hours.


This barbaric crime happened on August 5, 1966. Bian taught at the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Teachers University. During that summer big character

posters had been put up denouncing her and foreshadowing her murder.

The people who tortured and murdered Bian were all girls.

Only Red Guard members were "allowed" to do violence to their teachers. Song Binbin was a student at the Girls Middle School. She has been accused by some of participating, indeed leading, the torture and murder. This site has not found conclusive proof of that. If Song did NOT participate she has been defamed in the worst way. If she DID, she is a murderer, and a murderer living among us in America. The stakes here are very high.

Not so high, but still very high, is what Song's role was if she was not a murderer. Below is from Dr. Youqin Wang of the University of Chicago, the premier scholar on the specific issue of student violence toward teachers during the Cultural Revolution:
"During several hours of torture no one at this school of 1,600 students tried to dissuade the beaters from these inhuman actions. In the evening after the beating at the student dining hall some talked loudly about how they forced her [Bian] to eat dirt from the toilet or how they fetched hot water to scald her. There was no sense of guilt but rather an excited, giddy atmosphere."

Thirteen days later Song Binbin was given the honor of pinning a Red Guard armband onto Mao Zedong thus giving official imprimatur to the violence that had come before and that which was to follow, resulting in the murder of 3,000,000 Chinese. The photograph of that moment is world-famous.

Anyone who has evidence of who participated in the torture and murder of Bian Zhongyun please email, publocc@gmail.com. This is Public Occurrences.