Mao's Red Guard seeks forgiveness for brutal deeds

June 21, 2013 16:12

In a rare apology, a former member of the dreaded Red Guards, found by Mao Zedong in China, has sought public forgiveness for his 'evil deeds' during the decade-long Cultural Revolution.

'The chaos of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was not an excuse for my own evil deeds; this is the painful result of reflections from the autumn of my life,' reads an apology printed in a recent issue of the Chinese magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu.

"This has been a rock in my heart for years," said Liu Boqin, 61, a retired official in Ji'nan, Shandong Province, who paid for an advertisement to print the apology despite huge family pressure who believed the public might view him as a villain.

He was expressing remorse for the violence he committed when he was 14 against teachers and classmates as a Red Guard, a report in state-run Global Times said today.

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