Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries

Common card · No. 275034

The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (Chinese: 鎮壓反革命運動; pinyin: zhènyā fǎngémìng yùndòng, abbreviated as 鎮反; zhènfǎn) was the first campaign of political repression launched by the People's Republic of China designed to eradicate opposition elements, especially former Kuomintang (KMT) functionaries accused of trying to undermine the new Chinese Communist Party government. It began in March 1950 when the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued the Directive on elimination of bandits and establishment of revolutionary new order (剿滅土匪，建立革命新秩序), and ended in 1953. The campaign was implemented as a response to the rebellions that were commonplace in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Those targeted during the campaign were thereafter labeled as counterrevolutionaries, and were publicly denounced in mass trials. Significant numbers of counterrevolutionaries were arrested and executed and even more sentenced to labor reform (勞動改造; láodòng gǎizào). According...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain