Dao County

Dao County
—  County  —
Chinese transcription(s)
- Chinese	道县
- Pinyin	Dào Xiàn
Country	China
Province	Hunan
Prefecture	Yongzhou
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	425300

Dao County (Chinese: 道县; pinyin: Dào Xiàn) is a county of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Yongzhou city.

The Dao County Massacre of 1967

The 1967 mass killing in Dao County, known as the Dao County Massacre, was 66 days of mass destruction in Hunan Province, China, lasting from August 13 to October 17, 1967. It resulted in 4,519 dead, of whom 4,193 were killed outright and 326 were forced to commit suicide.

There are two principal features of this massacre. The first one is that it took place during the Cultural Revolution. The other is that nearly 90 percent of the victims were labeled as “class enemies”, i.e., the so-called Black Five Categories (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, “bad elements,” and rightists) and their family members.

(source: http://www.massviolence.org/The-Dao-County-Massacre-of-1967)

References

• www.xzqh.org (Chinese)

Coordinates: 25°28′16″N 111°36′42″E / 25.47111°N 111.61167°E / 25.47111; 111.61167