Song said in a speech, reported theīeijing News on Monday. “Please allow me to express my everlasting grief and apologies to Principal Bian,” Ms. Some former students gathered in the middle school on Sunday and paid a tribute to Bian, bowing before a bust that was belatedly set up to remember her death. At one particularly brutal encounter, the school’s principal, Bian Zhongyun, was beaten to death by her own students, marking the first death of a teacher during a decade that would see thousands of others face the same tragic fate. Song’s school in western Beijing, where students were exhorted to turn against their educators. The first sessions targeted school teachers, beginning at Ms. Song, who is now living in the United States, was known to have been present at some of the earliest “struggle sessions,” where ordinary Chinese deemed often arbitrarily as “Rightists” or “landlords” were brutally humiliated. Song Binbin, the daughter of Song Renqiong, one of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) top revolutionary generals, was handpicked by Mao and his wife Jiang Qing to lead groups of Red Guards in Beijing in the summer of 1966, which marked the start of the decade-long terror that tore apart China. A prominent former Red Guard who played a key role in some of the first “struggle sessions” at the start of Mao Zedong’s violent Cultural Revolution in 1966 has conveyed a rare public apology over the death of one of her teachers, Chinese State media reported.
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