Death quotas in the campaign against counterrevolutionaries
Dikotter's central claim for this period: killing set as an administrative target. Figures and the quota mechanism are both contested.
Over ten thousand citizens, cadres, and students assembled in formation at Baoding Stadium in Hebei for a public sentencing rally during the early 1950s suppression campaigns.
During the 1950-1953 Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (Zhenfan), the Central Committee assigned numerical execution quotas (typically one per thousand of population) carried out via mass stadium rallies and summary military tribunals across every province.
How we know
No fact has been entered for this event yet. Until one is, it stands as unknown.
unknownThe numbers here are contested. They appear only with every named position beside them.
ContestedStruck from the timeline: Duplicate. The same campaign, the same years, already entered under its own name in Remaking society. The quota mechanism moves into the note on that row.
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