Friday, March 9, 2012

How did the Cultural Revolution in China cause Human Rights to be denied?

Im doing a Social Studies project on this and this is the one question I cant seem to answer!

Please help :)How did the Cultural Revolution in China cause Human Rights to be denied?
Well he took all the wealth people, all the educated people, all the religious people and basically anyone he didn't like and either killed them outright or placed them for years in reeducation camps.



This denied them thier most basic human rights of



Life

Liberty

and the persuit of happiness.How did the Cultural Revolution in China cause Human Rights to be denied?
The movement brought chaos, as social norms largely evaporated and the previously established political institutions disintegrated at all levels of government.



The Revolution was launched in May 1966. Mao alleged that bourgeois elements were entering the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. He insisted that these "revisionists" be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth then responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement then spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of deviating from the socialist path, most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. During the same period Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions.



Millions of Chinese died as a result of the Cultural Revolution. Estimates run from 3,000,000 to 30,000,000. The real number is probably somewhere between those two figures.How did the Cultural Revolution in China cause Human Rights to be denied?
The cultural revolution under Mao Zedong was not opposed, because those who did died or were imprisoned. When eastern Europe became free it inspired Chinese students to protest for human rights in 1989, the military was sent in to close off these protests in Tienanmen Square. China is modernized, but they will not allow any opposition to the government or discussion of human rights. After all they are by far the largest of the 5 remaining communist governments in the world.

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