Guangxi Massacre

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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). The official record from the 1983 investigation documents 89,810 abnormal deaths and concluded that the total death toll exceeded 100,000 when accounting for undocumented cases and missing persons. Methods of murder included beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, and disembowelling. In specific areas, including Wuxuan County and Wuming, Nanning, hundreds of incidents of human cannibalism occurred, even though no famine conditions existed. According to initial records available, at least 137 people were eaten, with thousands of people having participated in the cannibalism; subsequent published official archives showed at least 302 people were eaten. Independent researchers have since identified 421 named individuals in...

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