said musa hussein, talking to witness in afghanistan.ar is the 50th anniversary of the start of the cultural revolution in china. at the forefront were the red guards, fanatical students determined to help chairman mao eliminate any vestiges of capitalism. our next witness saul yeung was one of them. newsreel: the biggest nation on earth, china, is in turmoil. is china's ageing leader losing control? has mao gone mad, driven by the megalomania of the teenage red guards? mao had decided to drive the young people in a vast campaign to purify the communist party. there was to be a new revolution, a cultural revolution, a revolution in people's thinking. inspired by mao, the red guards went wild in their enthusiasm to keep the revolution alive. they worshipped mao as their leader and followed his instructions without question. they consider long hair and western—style clothes uncommunist. after reports of rioting, beatings up and even murder, the red guard seem to have gone too far. their leaders have told them to cool off and go and help wi