At the age of 60, Wang Jiyu couldn’t bear to keep quiet any longer about a story that he had never mentioned in public for over 40 years: As a 16-year-old member of the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, he killed another young man in the middle of a confusing melee.
His story is similar to many others from the violent era in Chinese history known as the Cultural Revolution; what is remarkable is not that he killed someone, but that he is now willing to speak out about it.
Wang broke his silence in an article he wrote for the outspoken Chinese magazine “Yan Huang Chun Qiu” last year. He recently spoke with NBC News about what he says was “an era when all humanity collapsed.”
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