Opinion on Not Having the Militia Involved in Factional Confrontations
(December 1974)
In any place where there are two factions, the militia must not get involved. Chuan

[1] This is a remark Mao Zedong made in December 1974 while listening to a work report by Zhou Enlai and Wang Hongwen (then Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee) on the preparations for the Fourth National People’s Congress. This remark was quoted in bold type in the CPC Central Committee’s notice of January 17, 1975, concerning the prohibition of the seizure of weapons, which Mao reviewed and approved.