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Communism In Ambush
Chapter 4. Red Terror in Asia
Though born in Europe, Communism's first revolution took place farther east, in Russia. In the first half of the 20th century, it moved even farther to eastward until 1949, when China—the world's populous country—fell to guerillas led by Mao Tse-tung. For ten years, Mao's militants engaged in attacks against government forces across China to bring about the world's second largest Communist revolution. The results of this second revolution were the same as in the original Bolshevik revolution: criminal assaults, mass murders, torture, famine, impoverishment, degeneration, resulting in an introverted, depressed society of fear.
After Lenin, Mao brought the second important change to Communist theory, bringing innovations to Marxism in three important areas:
The reason behind these three different approaches was the conditions in which Mao found himself. In China, where almost the whole population was composed of peasants with a conservative, nationalist frame of mind, Mao had no other choice than to establish "nationalist peasant socialism." Unavoidably, Mao gave priority to the peasants, applied the model of the "country guerilla," and organized among the peasantry.
This explains not only why Maoism was different from Leninism, but why it became an even more savage, barbarous and rigid ideology. The advent of Maoism added to Communism—which was already pitiless and bloodthirsty—a greater degree of ignorance, fanatic nationalism and hostility to culture and civilization. Total calamity was the result. Maoism was the worst kind of Communism; in fact we can say it was the worst of the worst.
Maoism influenced not only China but later passed to Cambodia (in the time of the Khmer Rouge), North Korea, and even Albania. Maoism gained power with Stalin's help, and Soviet-Chinese relations were very good in Stalin's day. But this relationship fell apart in the 1960s, and the two countries became enemies. Sino-Soviet rivalry divided the Communist world, separating allies of China from those allied with the Soviet Union.
What Maoism brought upon China, and those Communist countries that followed China, was as dark and bloody as the Russia of Lenin and Stalin. But as the "worst of the worst," Maoism created much more terrible regimes.
In the following pages, we'll examine the red savagery that embraced Asia.
Darwin's Visit to China
Communism is really a European ideology, first proposed by European philosophers and put into effect for the first time by European activists. It's really nothing more than the result of the materialist hostility towards religion that took root in Europe. It is curious that this ideology reached and took root in an isolated country like China, so distant from Europe in every way. But if we look at China's recent history, a familiar pattern emerges: the coming of Communism to China meant the coming of atheism which took root thanks to Darwinism.
Until the end of the 18th century, China was an inward- looking society, isolated from Western culture. The coming of English merchants in the 19th century, brought many changes to the country. With them, these merchants brought a substance called opium, unknown in China before. Consumption of opium spread like an epidemic in Chinese society and was the cause of two wars between England and China. Finally, England preponderated over China. Hong Kong and other important Chinese cities fell under English influence.
In this way, English imperialism entered China and with it, came Darwinism that gave imperialism scientific support. In the 19th century, the materialist and Darwinist ideas that had dominated Europe began spreading quickly among Chinese intellectuals. In The Encyclopedia of Evolution, Richard Milner writes:
Just as young Turks were captivated by Western materialist ideas at the end of the Ottoman period, so in China, ideologues appeared who adopted materialism and Darwinism. As a result, the Chinese Empire that had lasted thousands of years was abolished in 1911 and replaced by the Republic of China. Those who founded the republic, no matter how anti-Western their rhetoric and policy may have been, adopted the same racist and Social Darwinist understanding that had justified Western imperialism. In an article in the American magazine New Republic, senior editor Jacob Heilbrunn writes:
The racist thinker Herbert Spencer, mentioned in the quotation above, was a contemporary of Darwin, whose theory he adapted to social science. Among other violent, unjust and cruel ideas, Spencer proposed the superiority of the European races and the need for continual conflict among races and nations, suggesting that society should not assist its poor and weak members.
Among Chinese intellectuals influenced by Darwin and Spencer were Yen Fu and Ting Wen-chiang, whose ideas greatly influenced the foundation of modern China. In Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, the American historian Benjamin Schwartz emphasizes Yen Fu and his Darwinist ideas significantly. According to Schwartz, Yen Fu takes the and Charles Darwin"
Darwinism's influence on 20th century China was so great that the famous Harvard historian, James Reeve Pusey, devoted a book entitled China and Charles Darwin to this one subject. In this book he relates how Darwin's Origin of Species, published in England and translated into Chinese 36 years later in
1895, spread with incredible speed among Chinese intellectuals, with immense social and political effects. in the preface to his book, Pusey writes:
In the same book, Pusey examines the currents of thought developing in China in the first half of the 20th century and tells how they established the foundation for Maoism. One of the people he considered was Liang Chi-chao, was a well-known writer of the time who was captivated by Darwinism and materialist philosophy.
China and Charles Darwin relates how Darwinism was responsible for establishing China's disputatious revolutionist culture and its great influence on bringing Maoism to power:
Darwin justified revolution and thereby helped the cultural revolutions of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, Hu Shih and Mao Tse-tung (and, of course, so many others), and the political revolutions of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang K'ai-shek, and Mao Tse-tung....
His analysis clearly shows how Darwinism became the basis of Chinese Communism. For thousands of years, China had been an isolated empire. In a matter of ten years it became Red China, and the motive power behind this change in thinking was Darwinism.
But what did Darwinism do to prepare China for Maoism?
How did Mao Become a Communist?
Up to now, we've examined the change in ideas that prepared China for Maoism. But a personal dimension of this also needs to be examined: Mao himself.
Mao Tse-tung was born in 1893 to a family in a southern China village. From his childhood he always wanted to see Beijing and imagined living there. At age fifteen, he began to read young people's magazines published in the capital, and especially liked New Youth, a publication of the New Culture movement. This magazine was filled with articles by Darwinist ideologues such as Yen Fu and Ting Wen-chiang.
In 1918, Mao visited the city he always wanted to see. There he made friends with Yang Changzhi, a teacher from Beijing University who recognized the young man's talent and got him a job at the university library. Mao began his job of cataloguing and dusting the books and cleaning the rooms. He became friends with Li Dazhao, the director of the library, whose articles in New Youth he had read and liked. Li Dazhao had Communist ideas; for this reason, the university library became known as the Red Room. Chinese Communist theoreticians often met there, where Mao heard the names of Marx, Engels and Lenin for the first time.
But the man who brought the young Mao to embrace Communism was not from Beijing. After spending a few months at the Beijing library, Mao went to Shanghai and met Chen Duxiu, a classical scholar and a friend of Li Dazhao who had made a special study of Darwin.68 This Communist leader's most striking feature was that he was an ardent Darwinist. He can be considered as China's most important advocate of Darwinism and became Mao's most important tutor. Years later, Mao was to say, "He had influenced me more than anyone else."69
In her book Mao, Clare Hollingsworth, a historian at the University of Hong Kong said that Mao was greatly influenced by the Darwinist views of Chen Duxiu and even in the 1970s he looked back nostalgically to the studies of Darwin he did in his youth.70
Chen Duxiu educated Mao in the scientific aspects of Darwinism; on the political level, he was influenced by Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese leader of the time. Interestingly, Sun Yat-sen, regarded as the founder of modern China and of the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Chinese Party), was also a Darwinist. In an article in The New Republic, the American researcher Jacob Heilbrunn writes:
Brainwashed by the ideas of Darwin and Marx, Mao became an active, passionate Communist from 1920 onward. With eleven friends who thought as he did, he founded the Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921. Afterward, he strengthened the Communist Party by various alliances, skirmishes, guerilla battles and propaganda. For a while, the Communists under Mao cooperated with the Nationalist Party, but in the second half of the 1920s, each side became hostile to the other. Mao relocated his militants in Jiangxi province in southern China and there formed a "liberated zone" outside the central authority.
The struggle between the two sides lasted for years. After World War II, the Communist "liberated zone" continued to grow, to the point that it encompassed almost all of China. In 1949, Mao and his Communists entered Beijing and proclaimed the "People's Republic of China." With this, the world witnessed the second Communist Revolution after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917—a second revolution at least as bloody as the first.
The "Great Leap Forward" and the Great Famine
Until 1949, Mao had conducted a long guerilla war, organizing a campaign in the countryside and in the mountains against the central administration, which controlled the large cities. In order to do this, he established good relations with the villagers, promising them land and freedom and assuring them that once Communism was established in China, they would enjoy great prosperity and happiness. The peasants believed him and supported him and his guerillas.
But after Mao came to power, everything changed. In the first years after the revolution, he wanted to take over the whole of China and set up Communist authorities in every area. In the meantime, thousands were arrested as "class enemies" and hanged in public. In the mid-fifties, Mao designed a system similar to Stalin's collectivization and put it into effect in 1958. This was called the "Great Leap Forward," but all it succeeded in doing was to bring torture and a great famine upon the Chinese people.
The Great Leap began with slogans about doubling all of China's agricultural and industrial production. Working hours were increased, and machines worked endlessly. Workers weren't permitted to inspect or repair the machines, and within a short time they began to break down.
Agriculture suffered disaster from lack of intelligent planning. With the idea that the "abolition of private property would increase production," all peasants were forced to surrender their land to cooperatives. The confiscations of Stalin's Russia were repeated. Moreover, Mao punished peasants in some parts of China for not accepting collectivization voluntarily. Their punishment was being starved to death.
Within a short time, the Great Leap disintegrated into a great famine. Like the famine that Stalin fabricated in the Ukraine, this famine was also man-made. The Black Book of Communism comments on China in the period of the Great Leap:
Mao began with the slogan of "peasant socialism." Before coming to power, he'd promised Chinese peasants land, food, and protection. But his power subjected them to levels of pain and torture never to be seen in modern history:
The death rates accross the country reached to incredible levels:
In the course of the Great Leap, an eighteen-year-old Red Guard, who was pursued by the authorities and took refuge with his family in a village in Anhui, described Maoism's cruel face:
The Influence of "Evolutionist Science" in Mao's Famine
In the years between 1958 and 1961, as a result of Mao's Great Leap policy, all of China suffered what's accepted as the greatest, most deadly famine in history. It is estimated that as a result, as many as 40 million died. (Such numbers equaled and even surpassed the entire population of many countries of that time.)
What was the cause of this disaster? As mentioned above, Mao's militants forced the peasants into collectivization and founded communes of between 100 and 300 families—which greatly reduced agricultural productivity. In some areas, Maoist administrations punished peasants with deliberate starvation.
We examined Trofim Lysenko before. As a result of the nonsensical "proletarian science" of the Stalin era, Soviet biology was entrusted to Lysenko, an ardent evolutionist. Lysenko rejected the science of genetics adopting instead a theory by Lamarck, a leading Darwinist who believed in the "inheritance of acquired traits." When Lysenko's myth was applied to Soviet agriculture, the losses were immense.
But Mao did not learn from this disaster of the Stalinist period—on the contrary he and his supporters, educated from their youth on a strict Darwinism, continued to believe in "proletarian science" and to distort real science, according to the requisites of the theory of evolution. The Great Leap imitated Lysenko's model, and Chinese peasants were forced to perform agriculture according to principles of "evolutionist science."
Jasper Becker, Beijing bureau chief of South China Morning Post, in his book entitled Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, relates in detail the Lysenkoist agricultural enterprise put into effect during the Great Leap. These attempts, each of which resulted in a separate disaster, were:
Later, the same agricultural policy was put into effect in Communist Cambodia and North Korea, with the same results: a great lack of productivity, famine and mass death. Blindly and without awareness or intelligence, Communists applied Lysenko and Stalin's "Communist leap in agriculture," because the theory of evolution at the base of their materialist philosophy demanded it.
Mao's Darwinist Tyranny
The theory of evolution is closely related to all the disasters Mao brought upon China. As we have seen, the great famine of 1958-61 resulted from the application of Lysenko's model of "evolutionist science." Meanwhile, Mao and the Communist establishment ruled China with incredible cruelty and mercilessness. What kind of horrifying thinking lies behind a policy that deliberately leaves people to starve and forces them into cannibalism?
No doubt this relates to the whole Communist view of human nature. Earlier, the idea that human beings are animals lay at the basis of Soviet terror, and the same applies to China was mentioned. With Darwinist prejudice, Mao viewed those opposed to Communism as "animals" and so, Maoists were not at all touched by the anguish of people they regarded as a herd. To them, this was a logical, normal operation of nature. After revealing how low harvest levels had fallen in the Great Leap, The Black Book of Communism gives Mao's view in this regard:
Elsewhere, he writes:
Immediately after the Great Leap, on January 30, 1962, Mao explained the parallels between the Chinese Communist Party and Darwin in a speech delivered before members of the Party:
In these words, Mao compared his party's efforts to Darwin's enterprise and expressed his respect and admiration for him. At first, he stated, few accepted his Communist Party's ideas, just as few people accepted the theories of Darwin. But that would not change the validity of either man's ideas. But just as in Darwin's case, Mao's ideas were all myths.
In the Great Leap, between 30 and 45 million people died because of the famine. Many peasants who resisted collectivization died of torture. Tens of thousands, because they showed the slightest negative attitude towards Communism, were labeled "class enemies," arrested and tortured. Chinese prisoners were treated like animals and finally executed.
In these prisons, the savagery of Chinese Communism was especially evident.
Mao's Prisons
Mao's China had totally become a society of fear. The majority of the millions accused of an offence, even with no concrete evidence of a crime, were arrested and imprisoned as opponents of Communism. Later they were executed in huge ceremonies held in the open squares of large towns. An estimate of between 6 and 10 million people were unjustly killed on Mao's directives. About 20 million "counter-revolutionaries" spent a great part of their lives in prison as enemies of the state. But as The Black Book of Communism says, living in these prisons was often worse than death:
Nien Cheng, a former inmate of a Shanghai prison, describes the the pysical violence in the Chinese prisons:
This savagery's main purpose was to instill fear, first in opponents of the regime and then in society in general. Another goal was to destroy people's personalities, to dehumanize and "bestialize" them by fear and torture. By these methods, Mao wanted to turn of China's entire population into a herd of animals he might control.
The important turning point that gave life to Mao's totalitarian project was China's "Cultural Revolution."
The Cultural Revolution: China's Communal Folly
Following the disaster of the Great Leap, Mao announced that he was "high above daily politics." He decided to withdraw from matters of state to concentrate on so-called "greater and more important issues." Mao's silence ended in 1966. He announced that the Chinese revolution had not yet achieved success because he, the "great helmsman," had not completely instilled Communism in people's minds; that even in the highest echelons of the state, there were elements who did not understand Communism. A cultural revolution was needed to correct this situation.
The shock of the Cultural Revolution was to destroy the whole Chinese state and society. Mao's suggestions had great influence on the ignorant youth in the low ranks of the Communist Party. They became known as the Red Guards and began wreaking terror in all parts of the country. Singing "The East is Red," they marched through the streets, ready to display their aggression and arrest everyone they thought was anti-Communist. Thousands of high-level bureaucrats, university professors, scientists and intellectuals were arrested, humiliated after undergoing horrible tortures, and executed.
Even Liu Shaoqi, one of Mao's closest friends and a former chairman of the People's Republic of China, was arrested on Mao's orders, publicly beaten, subjected to long torture and thrown into a cell where he received no medical attention and died in agony. Deng Xiaoping was one of Mao's oldest comrades, among those who were going to take over the rule of China after Mao. His son Pufong, a brilliant physics major at Beijing University, was interrogated by the Red Guards. During the process, he was sodomized, beaten to a pulp, and later thrown out the window of the interrogation chamber. Although he survived, his back was broken and he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair with an impaired hearing.85
A witness describes the inhuman torture inflicted on a university professor during the Cultural Revolution:
The Cultural Revolution also applied the "human bestialization" policy implemented earlier under Lenin and Stalin. Opponents identified as "enemies of the people" were forced to imitate an animal in public. Some professors under arrest had their hands tied behind them and, after being thrown to the ground, were forced to "graze," pulling up grass with their teeth. In August 1967, the Beijing press declared that anti-Maoists were "rats that ran through the streets" and should all be killed.87
The Cultural Revolution was a mass folly never before seen in the history of the world. The Red Guards arrested, tortured and executed tens of thousands for praying, just listening to music, or feeding a domestic animal. People were sent into a trance in which they supported every manner of savagery; they would shout their support as they watched people being murdered. The Black Book of Communism describes this savagery in these words:
The Red Guards' only source book was the Little Red Book containing the words of Mao. Every one of them knew this book by heart; moreover, those who did not know it were denounced as "class enemies" and could be beaten or even executed on the spot. Even the most normal and legitimate activities could be declared "anti-Communist" and punished:
The Cultural Revolution reached such levels of insanity that finally the army had to intervene and reestablish order in the country. Throughout the 1970s China tried to bandage the wounds inflicted by the Cultural Revolution and repair its damage. Mao died in 1976, joining more than 60 million who were already dead, victims of torture, slaughter and benighted ideology.
China's Savagery in Occupied Countries
The scourge of Maoism was not limited to the Chinese people. Countries occupied by China or people forced to live under permanent occupation were also targets of Red brutality. One of these areas was the "Uyghur Autonomous Region" in the west of China; in other words, the Uyghur Turks living in Eastern Turkistan. Because these Turks were both Moslems and an ethnic minority, the Beijing administration targeted them and subjected them to systematic genocide from the time Mao came to power in 1949.
The Uyghurs were not allowed to perform their religious obligations. Schools and places of prayer were closed. In many areas, religious leaders were arrested and a large number of them murdered. Without taking any precautions, China carried out 46 nuclear tests in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, starting in 1964. As a result, cancer among Uyghurs has risen by a remarkable degree, with many children born dead or with physical defects.
To murder the Muslim Uyghur Turks, the Chinese employed various methods: Between 1949 and 1952, 2,800,000 Uyghurs died; between then and 1957, 3,509,000 died; between 1958 and 1960, the number was 6,700,000 and in the four years from 1961 to 1965, 13,300,000 Uyghurs were murdered. In eastern Turkestan, families were forbidden to have more than one child. Any woman who became pregnant in contravention of this law had her child aborted.
These measures, begun in Mao's time, are still in effect. As a result of forced migration, family planning and killings, the Uyghurs in Eastern Turkestan have become a minority. Due to the policy of assimilation in effect since 1949, the proportion of Muslims in the Uyghur Autonomous Region has fallen from 75% to as little as 35%. Today, more than 25 million Muslims in eastern Turkestan live under Chinese oppression. In an area where thousands of Muslim are political prisoners, many of those arrested are not heard from again.
Another country that fell under the Communist regime's brutality is Tibet, occupied by the Chinese army just one year after the establishment of a Communist regime. With the acquiescence of its people, Tibet became an autonomous region bound to China. But Chinese oppression of the Tibetans has gradually increased. The Chinese administration has obliged Tibetan peasants to sell their produce at very low prices, put Chinese immigrants in all of the country's important institutions, and answered the least resistance with a cruel and bloody response. The Dalai Lama, who for years has inspired Tibetan resistance to China, describes the brutality committed by Communist China on his people:
Cambodia—the Pinnacle of Red Insanity
Communism, already a pitiless, contentious, cruel and bloodthirsty ideology, reached its worst expression of advanced brutality in Maoism. To understand more clearly why Maoism's "traditional" Far Eastern brutality was joined to Communism, we must look at another example from the Far East—the Cambodian regime of the Khmer Rouge, which came to power with Chinese support and adopted Maoist methods..
Cambodia, a small and poor country, is located between India and China. This region is also called Indo-China. For centuries the majority of its people eked out a living by agriculture, whose principal element is the rice paddies throughout the country. But between 1975 and 1979, these rice paddies became "killing fields." About three million people in this country of nine million were murdered. Some were shot in the head, others had their skulls crushed by axes, or left to starve. Still others were smothered with plastic bags put over their heads.
The perpetrators of this unparalleled brutality were the Cambodian Maoists, or the Khmer Rouge, a Communist party founded and led by a Maoist by the name of Pol Pot. For years the Khmer Rouge had been organizing in Cambodia's forests and dreaming of coming to power. Finally in 1975, their dream came true. They established a regime that was more cruel and totalitarian than Stalin's Russia or Mao's China—a pinnacle of Communist insanity.
For the good of the country, the party decided that a Communist's sole duty was to work in the rice paddies as much as possible. Cambodia's entire population was forced to work in those fields. Tens of thousands living in the cities—statesmen, bureaucrats, teachers, intellectuals—were driven to the villages and made to work on collective farms under very severe conditions. To avoid work, say prayers, or even to eat the smallest piece of food from what was being collected without permission was regarded as "rebellion against the state," and under this pretext, people were killed every minute.
The Khmer Rouge called their party Angkar, and to the millions of people working themselves to exhaustion in the fields gave the impression that "Angkar is always watching you." A Cambodian who managed to escape the Khmer Rouge brutality describes those who lived in the so-called "democratic" Cambodia:
Obviously, the Khmer Rouge put into effect the "human bestialization" project that lay at the base of Communism. As the above quote shows, people were forced to be like oxen ploughing a field. At the same time, much importance was given to eradicating such concepts as religion and morality. The Black Book of Communism describes the measures the Khmer Rouge took to destroy the love between the family institution and its members:
These measures are actually nothing more than Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' interpretation of the origin of the family, put into action. Marx and Engels viewed human beings as animals evolved from monkeys, for whom concepts of religion, morality and family were not necessary. These were "superstructure institutions" that came to be as the result of economic relations. A Communist society promised to destroy these concepts. So the Khmer Rouge's project was nothing else than to put life into the nonsense proposed by Marx and Engels.
The Khmer Rouge wanted to destroy the religion and the family, bestialize human beings and make them like "oxen that plough the fields". Khmer Rouge once again applied measures used earlier by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao by deliberately letting people go hungry, thereby destroying their wills and personalities. Later, after being fed by Angkar, they would come to worship the Khmer Rouge as gods:
A Cambodian witness stated:
The hostility to "love, beauty, aesthetics and culture" that had showed itself in Mao's Cultural Revolution reached the point of insanity with the Khmer Rouge. Anyone who combed his hair, took a little care in his appearance, or even wore glasses was regarded as an "enemy of the people." The excerpt below is taken from a speech made by the director to the prisoners in a Khmer Rouge camp:
The Maoist psychopaths who seized Cambodia with China's support murdered almost three million innocents. At first, those to be killed were shot in the head. Later, however, this was decided to be a "waste of bullets," so more brutal methods were resorted to. Besides "saving bullets," these methods were preferred so that Khmer Rouge militants could satisfy their sadism. Fifty-three percent of victims had their skulls crushed with iron bars, axe handles, or sometimes hoe handles; six percent were hanged or asphyxiated with plastic bags, and five percent had their throats slit.97
In 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime came to an end when Vietnam occupied Cambodia. To show the brutality of the earlier regime, the Vietnamese dug up the rice paddies known as the "killing fields," exhumed the bodies, and put them on display. The bones and skulls of all the thousands killed by the Khmer Rouge are now on display in a museum in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Communism, which found its "scientific" foundation in a book by Charles Darwin, took shape from the nonsense of Marx and Engels, became a world power through the brutality of Lenin and Stalin, reached its pinnacle of madness under Mao, and showed its real face to the world in the savagery practiced in Cambodia.
North Korea and Vietnam
In Asia, Communist brutality was not limited to China and Cambodia. The regime of North Korea also inflicted merciless terror on its own people. An estimated 1.5 million were killed under the dictatorship of Kim Il Sung. Hundreds of thousands were subjected to torture in North Korea's terrible prisons. The Black Book of Communism describes how prisoners were treated like animals:
A camp guard who fled to Seoul describes the torture and executions inflicted in the concentration camps of North Korea:
Another characteristic of the North Korea's Communist regime was its adoption and cruel implementation of the eugenics theory, which was another product of Darwinism. As we saw earlier, eugenics was proposed by Darwin's cousin Francis Galton, and appeared as a scientific enterprise at the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of eugenics is to sterilize people who are sick, disabled, or of a particular race and to have healthy people reproduce. It was imagined that in the end, this process would bring a healthier race into being. The first country to implement eugenics as an official policy was Nazi Germany. At first, Hitler gathered congenitally ill and disabled people into "sterilization centers," and later had them killed.
North Korea's Darwinist-Communist regime implemented this cruelty under the name of "accelerating evolution." The Black Book of Communism described eugenics, North Korean style:
Vietnam was another bloody Communist dictatorship in Asia. North Vietnam carried on a long war first with the French and then with the Americans. In 1975 it took South Vietnam and formed a single united Communist Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh, the founder of North Vietnam, and those who followed him did not hesitate to torture their own people and subject them to severe oppression. Between 1975 and 1977, a Vietnam writer opposing the regime wrote a letter in which he described the conditions of the country:
Conditions inside the prisons are unimaginably bad. In the Chi Hoa prison, the official Saigon prison, 8,000 people under the old regime were kept in conditions that were universally condemned. Today there are more than 40,000 people in the same prison. Prisoners often die from hunger, lack of air, or torture, or by their own hand…
Similar instances of cruelty were suffered when Vietnam occupied Laos in 1975 and turned it into a Communist regime. The Pathet Lao Communists gained strength in this poor country in the middle of Indo-China and, after they came to power, subjected opponents of regime to oppression. As a result, tens of thousands became refugees.
The Maoist Danger Continues
Throughout its history, far-eastern Asia has been a scene of serious severe armed clashes, blood feuds, and savage acts of vengeance. With the advent of Communist ideology, which supported violence and regarded brutality as legitimate and even necessary, the result was disastrous. Communism turned the rice paddies into killing fields. In far-eastern Asia, moreover, its hostility to culture and civilization was even more marked. Its unthinking ideology rejected civilization in favor of ignorance, ugliness, and monotony.
Interestingly, many organizations and currents of thought would blindly adopt such a cruel and primitive ideology and spread it throughout the world. Today, a number of Maoist terror organizations and ideological groups are operating in various countries. Maoists claim that the collapse of the Soviet Union revealed the "failure of a false interpretation of Communism" and proved that Maoism is right. They close their eyes completely to Mao's brutality, crimes, famines and terrible acts of cruelty and try to argue that this benighted ideology is the only alternative for the world's future. Maoists organize particularly in underdeveloped countries, implementing their outmoded theory they call "Third Worldism," and try to seduce these countries into the darkness of Communism.
Clearly, these Maoists aren't satisfied with the tens of millions whom their namesake tortured to death. They want more bloodshed.
In this book's last section, we'll examine Maoism's subtle growth in greater detail.
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Officials in North Carolina's coastal counties say their region is being treated unfairly. The North Carolina Rate Bureau representing state insurance companies wants to raise insurance rates an average of almost 21 percent statewide.
Officials in 20 eastern counties say the annual premium for a $300,000 property on the coast could increase by more than $1,000. NC 20 Group board member Greg Lewis says the potential increase is excessive for 20 coastal counties.
"The rationale that's behind the potential damage of a Katrina type hurricane coming to shore... but the facts bear out that the western and the middle part of the state sustain on annual basis far higher rates of wind damage," said Lewis
The state insurance commissioner will hold a public hearing in June to get feedback on the proposed increases. It will be the first public hearing on an insurance rate filing in 18 years.
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- A data placement strategy in scientific cloud workflows
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- In scientific cloud workflows, large amounts of application data need to be stored in distributed data centres. To effectively store these data, a data manager must intelligently select data centres in which these data will reside. This is, however, not the case for data which must have a fixed location. When one task needs several datasets located in different data centres, the movement of large volumes of data becomes a challenge. In this paper, we propose a matrix based k-means clustering strategy for data placement in scientific cloud workflows. The strategy contains two algorithms that group the existing datasets in k data centres during the workflow build-time stage, and dynamically clusters newly generated datasets to the most appropriate data centres-based on dependencies-during the runtime stage. Simulations show that our algorithm can effectively reduce data movement during the workflow's execution.
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The idea that health problems can pose serious barriers to student learning – and that they are a major cause of the U.S. education achievement gap – is hardly new. Public health experts have been raising the issue for decades, says TC alumnus Howell Wechsler – and elected officials and policymakers have been nodding their heads, agreeing that it all makes sense, and then mostly going on about their business.
But Wechsler –Director of the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and this year's Tisch Lecturer at TC – sees some new reason for hope, much of which has to do with work emanating from Teachers College.
2013 Tisch Lecturer at TC
Watch Howell Wechsler talk about school health in TC's "Mini Moments with Big Thinkers" series.
At the start of a lecture he delivered in February, "Taking Action Now to Address the Missing Link in School Reform," Wechsler held up the October 2011 issue of the Journal of School Health, the entirety of which was devoted to a group of articles titled "Healthier Students Make Better Learners," written by Charles E. Basch, TC's Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education.
"This report has led to unprecedented amounts of attention placed on the need for strong school health programs," Wechsler told listeners in Milbank Chapel. "And not just because they're good for our children, but because they're an essential strategy for improving academic achievement – especially for those kids struggling in school."
Basch's report documented the extent of seven health issues – vision, asthma, teen pregnancy, aggression and violence, physical activity, breakfast, and inattention and hyperactivity – that disproportionately affect low-income, minority youth, and detail the specific ways that these problems contribute to the nation's school achievement gap. A concluding paper called for schools to make student health a fundamental part of their mission and outlined a strategy for combating these issues with school health programs coordinated by an extensive cast of national, regional and local players. Basch has since met with health and school officials around the country to gain support for that idea, which another TC faculty member, Aaron Pallas, has called "so obvious that you wonder why it hasn't been tried before."
As a TC alumnus, Wechsler said, that he was "proud that this document came from my alma mater." But for Basch's plan to succeed, he said, schools of education, too, must make student health a fundamental part of their missions. He called on TC to work with health experts to codify what teachers and administrators need to know – in particular, how and why specific health problems interfere with learning – and to lead the way in strengthening the preparation of teachers and administrators for addressing health-related barriers to learning.
Specifically, teachers in pre-K-12 schools must learn to identify students who need health services and communicate with school nurses and principals to help students get access to those services, Wechsler said. Teachers should also learn to integrate health content into different subject areas; help students learn skills for communicating effectively and resolving conflict; and communicate with parents about health-related barriers to learning.
While it may not be clear yet what all the components should be in bringing health education to schools, Wechsler said, "A place like TC, with so many brilliant minds, can figure it out as well as anyone." He closed by quoting the Jewish philosopher Hillel – "If not now, when?" – and added, "If not the nation's oldest, largest and greatest college of education, then who?"
Wechsler has announced that after 18 years at CDC -- including nine in his current role -- he will leave in May to begin a new position outside the government, as Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The Alliance promotes physical activity, healthy eating and obesity prevention among young people. Its Healthy Schools Program is helping schools across the Nation build the capacity to address critical health problems.previous page


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Maine school districts aren't making any commitments yet on whether they'll stick with Apple laptops and tablets or switch to PCs. Over the weekend, the LePage administration announced that it had struck a new deal with Hewlett Packard to provide laptops to thousands of students throughout Maine. The administration says one reason it chose the HP ProBook is that it runs Microsoft Windows 8, which is the most commonly used operating system in the workplace. Jay Field reports.
Apple has had the exclusive contract with the state since the Maine Learning Technology Initiative's laptop program began in 2002.
"We'll struggle, as other school districts in Maine, to make a switch," says Bill Webster, superintendent in Lewiston, where elementary school students and teachers have been working for years now with Apple notebooks.
Webster says teachers have grown especially attached to them. "It's not only the hardware, but all the professional development that goes with it," Webster says.
For the first time this year, a committee of representatives from Maine and two other states, Hawaii and Vermont, solicited bids jointly in an effort to cut costs. The committee rated laptops and tablets by quality and cost.
The least expensive and highest quality choice was Apple's 32 gigabyte iPad for $217. The device Maine eventually settled on, the HP ProBook, is slightly more expensive at $254 per laptop, and was ranked fourth on quality out of the five notebooks and tablets the committee considered.
"The governor was getting a lot of feedback that wanted Windows-based software - that's where the business community was. That's where higher ed was," says Stephen Bowen, Maine's Education Commissioner.
But Bowen says many school districts have also called his office, saying they want to stick with Apple. "They would have that option. And so that's basically what we've said to districts," he says. "The state's investment would be capped at the HP solution cost. But you could choose what you wanted to choose."
So if districts want to buy MacBook Airs instead, they'll have to pick up the difference, assuming they're more expensive than the HP machines.
What's unclear, however, is whether the per-unit price on an Apple notebook will be as favorable as it would have been if the state had decided to sign another contract with the company. Betsy Webb is superintendent of the Bangor Schools.
"There has been chatter, but I can't confirm this, that the Airbooks would be $15 more per machine. But we don't know - do you have to buy software on top of that?" Webb says. "And so those are the kinds of details that would be necessary for us to make a decision."
Bowen says the department's technology team is currently in talks with Apple and other alternative vendors about pricing.
"I think the vendors were thinking, 'Well, I'm giving you that tier one price because we think we're going to get all of the business,'" Bowen says. "Now what we need to do is talk to the vendors, confirm on things like price, what the packages will look like, what will be available to schools."
But even if MacBook Airs are available at a competitive price, Bill Webster, the Lewiston superintendent, says there's a problem that would make going with the machines difficult. "School districts that decide to continue with Apple are going to lose the state's professional development support, and I am very concerned about that."
Webster says he and his technology staff have some tough decisions to make in the coming weeks.


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- This page is about the child of Gilly and Craster. For other uses, see Sam (disambiguation).
Sam is a character in the third season. He's the son of Craster, a wildling who marries his daughters, and Gilly, one of his daughter-wives, being his mother/sister. He was named after Samwell Tarly, who saved the lives of Gilly and her son.
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Two of Craster's wives delivers him in a birthing hut. At the same time the Night's Watch survivors of the Battle of the Fist of the First Men take shelter at Craster's Keep. After Gilly and Samwell Tarly notice he's a boy, they realize that Craster will want to sacrifice him to the White Walkers.[1]
Sam visits Gilly, who is deeply distraught about the fate of her newborn son. She is frantic, and yells at Sam not to draw attention to the fact that it's a boy by calling it a "he" so loud, as Craster will want to offer it up as a sacrifice when he finds out it's a son. He asks her if she's decided on a name, but she responds that there's no point in naming her baby if he's only going to be offered up as a human sacrifice. She gives Sam back his mother's thimble and says she doesn't care about such stupid things, all she's focused on is protecting the life of her baby.
When a mutiny breaks out that results in the deaths of Craster and Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, Sam rushes to Gilly's hut and orders her that they have to escape now or they never will. Sam runs out of Craster's Keep with Gilly and her baby, as loyal Night's Watch members fall to the mutineers, who also kill or rape Craster's other wives. Gilly leads the way into the night because she knows the woods around her home.[2]
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Gilly's child actually does not possess a name. The inhabitants of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall are named in a ceremony on the same day they are born, which becomes known as a "nameday". A "nameday" is functionally equivalent to a "birthday", hence the phrase "naked as my nameday", it is just a quirk of their culture that the act of naming, not the birth itself, is what is signified.
However, due to the harsh conditions Beyond the Wall, the wildlings have a high infant mortality rate and believe naming a baby after birth is an ill-omen. Therefore, they do not give their babies names at all until they have survived to fully two years of age. Gilly follows that custom, and for that reason she has not given any name to her baby yet. Wildlings do sometimes give their babies nicknames in the meantime, but Gilly hasn't called her baby "Sam" in the books.
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- Gilly's baby at A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)


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If you go to the above link you will see two hand drawn maps created by Paul (linked at the bottom). I would like to be able to print out the maps and have them look decent. The scale he went with is 4 squares are equal to one inch and each square represents 100 yards. I am ok with printing it out on multiple sheets and taping them together just like he did with his hand drawn version. I am going to be running ToEE using AD&D 1e starting in Jan (for my group of Pathfinder players) and am getting together all the resources I can.
I also don't need anything other than the terrain, villages, and such. Labels and symbols are not needed at all because I might change some of them anyway. If I can only get one of the maps I would prefer the players version of the map. Thank you for considering my request.
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You might also mention or suggest what kind of style you're looking for in the final product - best way is probably with a link to a sample map whose style you like, but you could describe it a little. Might also be nice to know if you're looking for a particular file format, vector vs. raster, or any other little details.
There's also the fact that your existing map is already pretty good - which probably means the less skilled artists (myself definitely included) will be more reluctant to take a stab at it.
Thanks for the reply.
The file format is not important as long as its large and I can print it (on a large sheet of paper or on multiple 8.5 x 11 I have to put together). I honestly don't know much about the various file formats anyway to make a rational choice. Also its not my map, its a map someone else uses for a home campaign involving the Temple of Elemental Evil and the surrounding area. I just thought it was very good as far as distances and placement and cannot find anything like it on the web. I have the original module and the map that comes with it is very basic and not very useful.
It does not have to be too fancy at all since its just for my upcoming AD&D game I am going to run for my group over the next year.
I like both of the below styles but they are pretty fancy and might be too much.
Well - since it seems nobody else has jumped on this - I'll give it a shot. I've always wanted a nice ToEE regional map, and the baseline is already pretty good, and I can use the practice.
I will warn you I'm not a particularly skilled cartographer (especially in this august company) - so I make no promises for results in terms of quality or deadline (though I'm shooting for 1 Jan).
I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with and I am sure it will be more advanced than my pathetic attempts so far.
daggertx you have any other shots of higher rez of the last two maps you like? they look interesting and I'd like to see some detail.
The maps looks nice But there is no details here.
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The Chain gang Body Jewelry Store (www.TheChainGang.com), one of the largest online body piercing jewelry superstores, is offering 10% discount on all body jewelry to celebrate Mardi Gras. The discount is being offered for 16 days and is applicable to all jewelry pieces. In business since 1992, the online body jewelry store offers quality jewelry for all piercings including ears, navel, nose, labret and eyebrows.
Speaking about the Mardi Gras discount, Scott Johnson, President of The Chain Gang Body Jewelry Store, said, "Mardi Gras is the world's biggest party and we want YOU to look great for the occasion. Therefore, we are offering a 10% off on all our body jewelry pieces for all the jewelry lovers out there. This is a Mardi Grad gift from The Chain Gang to our beloved customers. We have all that you need to look extra-ordinary on this unique day which is a blend of tradition and modernity. So dig in-to The Chain Gang body jewelry store and let the shopping begin!".
Elaborating on how the discount can be used, Scott further added, "This limited period 10% discount on all our products can be used by entering the coupon code 'Mardi-Gras' (without the quotes) when making the purchase on our website www.thechaingang.com."
Mardi Gras, French for 'Fat Tuesday', is the day before Ash Wednesday. Also called 'Shrove Tuesday' or 'Pancake Day', Mardi Gras is marked by large carnivals and colorful parades. New Orleans, Venice and Rio de Janeiro are known to hold the grandest Mardi Gras carnivals, but many other places have recently emerged as important grounds for celebrations. The most prominent colors of the event are Purple, Green and Gold and most costumes, masks, jewels and decorations are designed using them or their shades. This year, Mardi Gras is on February 5.
The Chain Gang's Mardi Gras discount will be offered from February 1 through February 16, which will also cover Valentine's Day on February 14. "I was all prepared with my Mardi Gras costume and mask, all I needed was purple jewelry to match. I didn't have to think twice before ordering from The Chain Gang, thanks to the 10% discount. There were so many attractive pieces to choose from that I ended up buying much more than initially intended, but I did even that without burning a hole in my pocket!", shared Jenny, a regular customer.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Investigators are searching for a man in Richmond County wanted for terroristic threats and acts.
Tony Timpson is also wanted for weapons charges. He is believed to be hiding in the Harrisburg area.
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22 U.S. Code § 8727 - Identification of, and immigration restrictions on, senior officials of the Government of Iran and their family members
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(a) Identification
Not later than 180 days after August 10, 2012, and annually thereafter, the President shall publish a list of each individual the President determines is—
(1) a senior official of the Government of Iran described in subsection (b) that is involved in Iran's—
(A) illicit nuclear activities or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction;
(b) Senior officials of the Government of Iran described
A senior official of the Government of Iran described in this subsection is any senior official of that Government, including—
(c) Exclusion from United States
Except as provided in subsection (d), the Secretary of State shall deny a visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall exclude from the United States, any alien who is on the list required by subsection (a).
(d) Exception to comply with United Nations Headquarters agreement
Subsection (c) shall not apply to an individual if admitting the individual to the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, and other applicable international obligations.
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Andalos is a region on the continent of Essos, located on the coast between the Free Cities of Pentos and Braavos, west of the Rhoyne River. It is the ancestral home of the Andals, an ancient people who, according to tradition, invaded Westeros six thousand years ago and are the ancestors of most of the people living in the southern half of the continent.
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Andalos was once a powerful kingdom extending across much of north-western Essos west of the Rhoyne River, including the Velvet Hills and the Flatlands. It was a contemporary of the early Rhoynar kingdom, and according to Rhoynish histories the Rhoynar taught the Andals how to forge metal (disputing Andal histories, which insist they were directly taught by the Smith). The area was originally home to a race of hairy men who were related to the men of Ibben. The Andals displaced them through warfare. The Faith of the Seven was born in Andalos when the Father gave Hugor of the Hill a crown made of seven stars, whilst the Maid gave Hugor his wife, who bore him forty-four sons.
Some time later, the Andals abandoned the region to invade Westeros across the Narrow Sea. They overran and conquered most of the continent, leaving Andalos deserted, and various other migrations of different peoples moved into the region over the course of the subsequent six thousand years. The Valyrians established the city of Pentos there millennia later, in the south of the region. The northern coast became part of the Braavosian coastlands.
The term "Hills of Andalos" has gained some traction in fan circles, as a term originating from George R.R. Martin reading a chapter from A Dance with Dragons some years ago. However, in the published novels the term "Velvet Hills" was used instead.


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I really like it! Crisp, simple and effective with an old school echo. I love the font too, what is it?
Sorry there was no WIP for this. It's just a map I threw together this afternoon for my weekly game. Nothing fancy, but I like the way it came out and just wanted to share.
I really like it! Crisp, simple and effective with an old school echo. I love the font too, what is it?
Very old school. Takes me back's to Mom's basement.
My gallery is here
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Looks like a fun map to run players through. Very Cool.
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."
Atlas Shrugged authored by Ayn Rand
That is a lovely map. Are you using it for a VTT or is that one just for you to see?
This version with the numbers is for my reference. But as I made it in Photoshop, I'll save another version with the number layer turned off. I will then load that one into MapTool.
Now here's the crazy part. I have a MacBook Pro running Parallels. So I will load the DM side of MapTools into OSX (gotta love Java for cross-platforming). Then I connect an external display which will run WinXP in Parallels and load the MapTools client here. I will face that display to the players and enable Fog of War. So as they go through the map, I reveal portions of it to them. Then when there are encounters, we play those out on a wet-erase Chessex mat with minis.
So it's just like running MapTool with 2 PCs. Only one of those PCs is virtualized on my Mac.
Thats a pretty cool idea... I might have to try something like that...
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Here is your chance to make a first impression. Enter the One Word. One World. photo and video contest and introduce yourself to classmates before arriving on campus! The contest is open to all incoming freshmen and transfer students the summer before their first semester — whether you are starting in New York, Abu Dhabi, Paris, London, Shanghai, Florence, or Washington DC.
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Our little backyard garden went nuts this year--last weekend we harvested and froze 23 pounds of green beans, and this weekend it's savoy cabbage being processed for the winter.
So, any special recipes for freezing garden produce to enjoy later on?
Here's ours for curried savoy cabbage:
Halve and thinly slice two large onions. Add to a generous sized pot in which you've gotten three or four tablespoons of a neutral vegetable oil nice and hot. Add a tablespoon of turmeric, a tablespoon of salt, anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon of red pepper or cayenne pepper, a teaspoon or two of ground cumin. Stir till fragrant. Add the sliced onion and a generous amount of finely chopped fresh ginger--I use very young ginger so I use about a quarter cup; if I only had access to more mature ginger, I'd use half that amount. Saute till the onion is limp. Add 8-10 cups shredded savoy cabbage and toss it around from time to time till it is thoroughly wilted. Then add tomato--a couple of cups of homegrown tomatoes (peeled, seeded and chopped) if you have them, a can or two of diced tomatoes if you don't. Add a couple of tablespoons of lime juice and cook down till the mixture is reasonably dry. Then add a cup or two of plain yogurt, stir to incorporate, and serve. Or, as we will do, cool down and freeze in meal-sized containers.
Of course, if you don't have pounds and pounds of savoy cabbage to deal with, the recipe can be easily scaled down. And Napa cabbage works well, too.
This is the only cooked cabbage recipe my daughter ever loved.


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