Red Guard Rule; Invoking the Authority of Mao, Youths Killed and Spread Terror Series: UNCOUNTED MILLIONS: MASS DEATH IN MAO'S CHINA Series Number: 2/2

Hu Qixing, 41, now an investment and securities consultant in Beijing, was only 13 when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966. He attended one of the best schools in the country, a secondary school attached to Beijing Normal University, situated in the northwestern part of the Chinese capital.

Youthful Red Guards, invoking the authority of Chairman Mao, locked up, tortured and killed seven teachers at his school. No one opposed them. To this day, Hu finds the murders inexplicable.

Hu witnessed three of these murders between July and September 1966. As far as he knows, no…