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The 228 Massacre continues to divide Taiwan sixty-six years after killings (Photos)

Michael Richardson

228 Massacre is pictured in this famous woodcut

Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China in-exile, again apologized for the murderous rampage by Kuomintang troops during 1947, the second year of Chinese occupation of Taiwan, known at the time as Formosa. Ma’s remarks on Feb. 28 marks the sixty-sixth year since the bloodbath that occurred as the Chinese Nationalist regime, imposed on Taiwan in 1945 by the United States, quelled a spontaneous Taiwanese uprising. Recognition of the anniversary is a defining point in political discourse on the island continues today.

Church lambasts Ma over treatment of Chen Shui-bian

Taipei Times

The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan yesterday lambasted President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration for its treatment of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), while calling for medical parole for Chen.

In a press conference yesterday, Presbyterian Church in Taiwan General Assembly moderator Pusin Tali (布興大立) said that Chen, serving an 18-and-a-half-year prison term on corruption charges, has been imprisoned for 1,000-odd days at Taipei Prison, where he shares a 1.3 ping (4.29m2) cell with another inmate and is under 24-hour surveillance.

Treating any criminal like this is maniacal, no matter whether regarding it in terms of human rights or from the perspective of the judiciary, he said.

US representatives enter 228 Massacre into record

Taipei Times

Statements have been entered into the US Congressional Record to mark the 66th commemoration of Taiwan’s 228 Massacre.

New Jersey Democratic Representative Robert Andrews and New Jersey Republican Representative Scott Garrett are leading a call for all members of the US Congress to lend their names to “commemorating this important historical event.”

In separate statements published in the Congressional Record, Andrews and Garrett recounted the history of the massacre.

Taiwan Commemorates 2-28 When the KMT Began to Seriously Enforce its One-Party State

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

When WWII ended, Taiwan began to be denuded of everything from rice to steel to anything that could be used in the KMT's losing effort in China. But Taiwan's troubles are clearly marked by 2-28, er-er-ba, when the seething mistreatment boiled over with the striking of a street vendor selling contraband cigarettes and the shooting of an innocent protester. This brought about the upcoming Martial Law and White Terror in which over 30 thousand Taiwanese were killed and/or disappeared and thousands more would be imprisoned.

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