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These anti-landlord campaigns and murder which [[the left]] deems "liberating the people", actually began in the communist occupied territory of Yan'an during World War II, where the communists were hiding out from the Kuomintang and the Japanese even before the party captured the Chinese state in 1949. Landlords were forced into a [[rectification]] process, making false confessions and apologies, after which they were murdered.<ref>The CCP murderers were he alleged "agrarian reformers" the ''New York Times'' and [[Secretary of State]] [[George Marshall]] spoke of.</ref>
These anti-landlord campaigns and murder which [[the left]] deems "liberating the people", actually began in the communist occupied territory of Yan'an during World War II, where the communists were hiding out from the Kuomintang and the Japanese even before the party captured the Chinese state in 1949. Landlords were forced into a [[rectification]] process, making false confessions and apologies, after which they were murdered.<ref>The CCP murderers were he alleged "agrarian reformers" the ''New York Times'' and [[Secretary of State]] [[George Marshall]] spoke of.</ref>
Prof. R.J. Rummel in ''China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900,''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4FXn22NKptcC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=30,000,000+landlords+and+rich+peasants+would+have+to+be+destroyed&source=bl&ots=qkNjN-QlB-&sig=yPIkj7nKfQqcWI4eVPXz_hW5I2E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_g6P2hdnSAhVIqFQKHdDCA-8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=30%2C000%2C000%20landlords%20and%20rich%20peasants%20would%20have%20to%20be%20destroyed&f=false China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900], By Rudolph J. Rummel</ref> but he posits that some 4.5 million landlords and relatively well-off peasants died in the land reform campaigns. Mao biographer Philip Short estimates that possibly 1 million landlords and their families were killed, but the death toll “may have been two, possibly three times higher.”
Prof. R.J. Rummel in ''China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900,''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4FXn22NKptcC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=30,000,000+landlords+and+rich+peasants+would+have+to+be+destroyed&source=bl&ots=qkNjN-QlB-&sig=yPIkj7nKfQqcWI4eVPXz_hW5I2E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_g6P2hdnSAhVIqFQKHdDCA-8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=30%2C000%2C000%20landlords%20and%20rich%20peasants%20would%20have%20to%20be%20destroyed&f=false China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900], By Rudolph J. Rummel</ref> posits that some 4.5 million landlords and relatively well-off peasants died in the land reform campaigns. Mao biographer Philip Short estimates that possibly 1 million landlords and their families were killed, but the death toll “may have been two, possibly three times higher.”
According to China File, “landlords” was merely a convenient label pushed by Mao and the communist party:
According to China File, “landlords” was merely a convenient label pushed by Mao and the communist party: