The Daxing Massacre (), also known as the Daxing Incident (), was part of the Red August massacre in

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during the early

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. It took place in

Daxing District Daxing District () is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city. It borders the Beijing districts of Tongzhou to the east/northeast, Fangshan to the west, Fengtai to the northwest, Chaoyang to the northeast, and the Hebe ...

of Beijing from August 27 to 31, primarily targeting members of the

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. In total, 325 people were killed in the massacre by September 1, 1966; the oldest killed was 80 years old, while the youngest was only 38 days old; 22 families were wiped out. The Daxing Massacre occurred after

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publicly supporting Red Guards' movement in Beijing and

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, the Minister of

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, ordering to protect the Red Guards and not arrest them; on August 26, 1966, the day before the massacre began, Xie stated that it was not incorrect for the Red Guards to beat "bad people", and it was fine if the "bad people" were killed. Methods of torture and slaughter during the Daxing massacre included beating, whipping, strangling, trampling, and beheading; in particular, the method used to kill most infants and children were knocking them against the ground or slicing them in halves.

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