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So are we positive he did that or was that anti-communist propaganda?
From what I understand the boiling babies thing is kind of a meme exaggeration but he did fully admit to ordering the massacre of a village where 25% of the victims were under the age of 18, and several more were women(including pregnant ones) or elderly. And also that parts of the massacre included scalding people with boiling water, havent seen specifically that it was the children who were tortured in this manner.
He does kinda half heartedly call these actions "excesses" but he says that it would be more counterproductive to put restrictions on the revolution to halt things or some shit, and that the explicit goal of spreading fear of the Shining Path was achieved, so pure terror tactics.
During the Chinese civil war, didn't the CCP have a conscious strategy of treating civilians well and punishing those among their own ranks who transgressed against civilians?
That seems like a better strategy for a guerilla movement that depends on the support of the common people to succeed.
Oh absolutely, Mao's strategy of surrounding the cities and whatnot hinges on popular mass support in the countrysides.