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public indictment on dai bingnan case

(collected in shanxi provincial archives)

(photo courtesy: shanxi provincial archives)

this is the public indictment (draft) of the dai bingnan case, whose full name is "public indictment of the procuratorate of the provisional people's special court of the taiyuan city military control commission" and is collected in the shanxi provincial archives.

on april 24, 1949, taiyuan was liberated, and the taiyuan municipal military control commission took over and restructured the old shanxi institutions. on july 1 of the same year, the "interim measures (draft) for the special court of the taiyuan city military control commission" was promulgated, stipulating that the procuratorial office of the special court shall have one chief prosecutor and two prosecutors. the chief prosecutor and the prosecutor are responsible for "pre-trial, investigation and investigation". , public prosecution, debate" and other matters. after the investigation is completed, the prosecutor's office should prepare a public indictment, file a public prosecution with the special court, and request a trial.

on july 8, 1949, the procuratorate brought dai bingnan and wu dehou, the major counterrevolutionary criminals who sabotaged the taiyuan uprising, to the special court for public prosecution. cheng guliang is the chief prosecutor of this case, and wang lin and li chengrui are the prosecutors. dai bingnan was the former commander of the 30th army of the kuomintang, and wu dehou was the former commander of the 27th division of the 30th army of the kuomintang. when huang qiaosong, the former commander of the 30th army of the kuomintang, was preparing for the revolutionary uprising, dai and wu informed yan xishan, causing the uprising to fail. general huang qiaosong and pla staff officer jin fu and others were taken to nanjing by yan xishan and brutally killed.

the public indictment lists the identities of the two defendants, describes their criminal facts and harm in detail, and explains that their criminal behavior "prolonged the war in taiyuan and plunged 300,000 people into famine, disease, pain and artillery fire" and "did harm to the people of taiyuan." all disasters, losses, and casualties should bear heavy responsibility." the public indictment finally requested that the special court "impose capital punishment on each case in accordance with the people's requirements and in accordance with the people's laws, in order to answer the general will of the people of the three jin dynasties and comfort the spirits of the martyrs."

(source: procuratorate daily·rule of law news author: min hao and luo xiantao)