Beating up "little landlords"...

By Malcolm Moore
Published: 2:54PM GMT 31 Oct 2008

According to Mao, the Unknown Story, a biography of the dictator by Jung Chang, the fight against the landlords was drawn up between March and June 1947 by Kang Sheng, an expert on terror tactics.

"King told the cadres and activists to treat whole families as targets, even children," writes Chang. "He stood by smiling when village children beat up 'little landlords', as children from the wrong families were called." ...