UN General Assembly
1951

43. On 6 November, when the Assembly held its opening meeting and we listened to the earnest plea of the President of the French Republic for renewed efforts towards the achievement of the high purposes of the United Nations, an important French newspaper Le Monde published an account of events in my country, under the title “La revolution chinoise est entree dans une ere de violence”. The account is accurate though not complete. It deserves the attention of every representative. I do not pretend that I could give a complete account of the width and depth of the terror which today dominates the mainland of China. I shall briefly report to the Assembly the main features of the communist rule by mass murder. 44. At the beginning of October 1950, the communist authorities reviewed their first year’s accomplishments. Yao Su-shih, the so-called Chairman, of the Military Commission of East China, reported that in the year from 1 October 1949 to 1 October 1950, his so-called Commission had liquidated 107,000 “counter-revolutionaries” in the provinces of East China.