Sim Chi Yin
Children aged 6 to 10 sit under the Chinese Communist Party flag, learning math, in a single-room schoolhouse in Maple Wood Mountain, Dao County. Just behind the school is a pit with 31 corpses, including the three children of Zhou Qun. The children were tossed into the limestone pit alongside adults who had been clubbed on the head. Everyone died over the next seven days in the pit except for Zhou. “I think of how the children died in my arms. . .” she told us, breaking down.
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Children aged 6 to 10 sit under the Chinese Communist Party flag, learning math, in a single-room schoolhouse in Maple Wood Mountain, Dao County. Just behind the school is a pit with 31 corpses, including the three children of Zhou Qun. The children were tossed into the limestone pit alongside adults who had been clubbed on the head. Everyone died over the next seven days in the pit except for Zhou. “I think of how the children died in my arms. . .” she told us, breaking down.