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Ma has failed to deliver on 228 pledge, critics say

Monday, 20 February 2012 08:44 Taipei Times
Taiwan 228 Care Association Secretary-General Chang Yen-hsian, left, Taiwan National Alliance Convener Yao Chia-wen, second left, and former 228 Justice Association, Taipei secretary-general Ouyang Wen, second right, listen as 228 Justice Association, Taipei Secretary-General Chen Yi-shen explain a series of events to take place on Feb. 28 at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Rung-fong, Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has failed to deliver on his pledge to find the truth about the 228 Massacre and its perpetrators, civic groups and victims’ families said yesterday.

Civic groups plan to highlight Ma’s disappointing record on transitional justice in his first term with two marches to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the massacre, group representatives told a press conference.

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China detaining Tibetans returning from India: group

Saturday, 18 February 2012 08:45 Taipei Times

The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans returning from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama and is forcing them to undergo political re-education, a human rights group said.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said it believed it was the first time since the late 1970s that the authorities had detained Tibetan laypeople in such large numbers and it comes as China frets about unrest in Tibetan parts of the country.

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Young people outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday call for a constitutional amendment to cut the minimum ages for voting and standing for election from 20 and 23 respectively to 18.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times

A group of people under the age of 23 yesterday called for an amendment to the Constitution to allow political participation by younger people and panned the electoral system for blocking the economically vulnerable from running for office by requiring a security deposit.

More than a score of young people, with an average age of 19, protested outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday against restrictions that they said discriminate against youth political participation by setting the minimum voting age at 20 and the minimum candidate age at 23.