Jih Chin-chun, the first Taiwanese Aborigine to fall victim to the White Terror era, smiles before being executed in Taipei on Aug. 29, 1952.
Photo courtesy of the Transitional Justice Commission

Jih Chin-chun (日進春), a member of the Saisiyat community, was the first Taiwanese Aborigine to fall victim to the White Terror era when he was shot by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) military police at a riverbank in Taipei 69 years ago, the Transitional Justice Commission said yesterday.

Jih has been memorialized by a picture, in which he is shown laughing, captured just before he was executed on Aug. 29, 1952, the commission said.