China's Great Wall of Silence: New Evidence Concerning Liu Tingting and Song Binbin.*

Hu Jie's film Though I am Gone is the best cinematic

documentation to date of the murder of Bian Zhongyun

at the Girls Middle School Attached to Beijing Normal

University on August 5, 1966. Bian was the first teacher

murdered during the infamous Red August beginning

of the Cultural Revolution in China.




One of those from whom Hu Jie got evidence was another

teacher at the school, Lin Mang. In the film Lin states that

the Red Guards beat Bian Zhongyun in a toilet room. He

described one of the perpetrators as a tall, thin girl. Lin

also stated in the film that Red Guards forced him to carry

Bian's body after her murder.



Based upon subsequent additional credible evidence

received, the tall, thin girl who Lin saw beating Bian was

Liu Tingting, daughter of Liu Shaoqi, the president of

China.



Based upon other credible evidence received, we have

been informed of two separate incidents involving Song

Binbin. Both occurred in the summer of 1966.




In the first, Lin Mang was snatched up by the Red Guards

for interrogation. The person who sent for Lin was Song

Binbin. During the first interrogation a male student

was present with Song. As Song did the interrogation

and pressed Lin to confess to accusations she made

against him dating to the pre-1949 period, the male

student punched Lin so hard in the chest that Lin was

knocked to the ground.




On the second occasion Lin and fellow teacher Zhu Xuexi

were brought in for an evening interrogation by Red

Guards and leader Song Binbin. Lin and Zhu were

forced to kneel on the interrogation room floor. Female

Red Guards then beat Lin and Zhu with bronze-buckled

leather belts. In her role as Red Guard leader Song did

none of the beating herself but oversaw with a facial

expression described as "like the dark sky before a storm,

full of hatred, no smile, very awe-inspiring, and angry."




In Though I am Gone Lin relates that after this second

beating he decided--as so many others did--to commit

suicide. Hooking himself up to electrical devices in his

apartment he threw the switch to electrocute himself.

The electrical system short-circuited and he survived

and had a change of heart and decided to live on. This

is Public Occurrences.

*Song Binbin was sent a copy of this post and offered an interview to respond to this and other posts on Publocc.

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(First published here on December 22, 2007)