Deng's son blasts Cultural Revolution as disastrous


  • World
  • Friday, 01 Dec 2006

BEIJING (Reuters) - The wheelchair-bound son of China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping denounced on Friday the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution as disastrous in rare official comments on what is still a taboo subject. 

But Deng Pufang, 62, did not give any clues on how he was paralysed from the waist down after mysteriously falling from a Peking University building in 1968 at the height of the turmoil unleashed by Chairman Mao Zedong. 

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