He said the militants were apparently planning to attack a kibbutz collective farm or to kidnap a soldier.
Mr. Yang first encountered stories of Jiabiangou’s horrors as a self-described idealistic youth working on a collective farm in the 1960s, and though he was unbelieving at first, they stuck with him.
Put up a sign saying ‘collective farm’. Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.