Editing Great Leap Forward (section)

===Deaths by violence===
Not all deaths during the Great Leap were from starvation. In accounts documented by [[Yang Jisheng (journalist)|Yang Jisheng]], people were beaten or killed for rebelling against the government, reporting the real harvest numbers, for sounding alarm, for refusing to hand over what little food they had left, for trying to flee the famine area, for begging for food or as little as stealing scraps or angering officials.<ref name="Branigan2013" />{{sfnp|Yang|2012k|p=430}}

In the book ''Tombstone'', a cycle of starvation and violence was documented during the Great Leap Forward.<ref name="Guardian2012" />