Telegram to All Bureaus and Sub-Bureaus of the Central Committee and All Provincial, Municipal, Prefectural, and County Committees of the Communist Party of China (15th of June, 1951)

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Telegram to All Bureaus and Sub-Bureaus of the Central Committee and to All Provincial, Municipal, Prefectural, and County Committees of the Communist Party of China has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following edition: Strike Surely, Accurately, and Relentlessly in Suppressing Counter-Revolutionaries, in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is a telegram from Comrade Mao Zedong to all bureaus and sub-bureaus of the Central Committee and all provincial, municipal, prefectural, and county committees of the Communist Party of China dated the 15th of June, 1951. It was first published in the Red Guard collection Long Live Mao Zedong's Thought! in 1968.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#TELEGRAM TO ALL BUREAUS AND SUB-BUREAUS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND ALL PROVINCIAL, MUNICIPAL, PREFECTURAL, AND COUNTY COMMITTEES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

#Mao Zedong

#15th of June, 1951

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In no circumstances should the policy of «granting a two-year reprieve» be taken to mean not executing those criminals who owe blood debts or are guilty of other major crimes when their execution is demanded by the people. This would be wrong. We must make it clear to the district and village cadres and the masses that persons who have incurred the bitter hatred of one and all for their heinous crimes and have to be executed to assuage the people's anger must be put to death for this purpose. It is only on those counter-revolutionaries who are guilty of capital offences, but have not incurred deep popular hatred, and whose execution is not demanded by the people that we shall pass the death sentence with a two-year reprieve and impose forced labour to see how they behave.