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Remembering the Tibetans’ plight

Taipei Times Editorial

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, an anniversary that, sadly, will go unnoticed in most parts of the world.

More than 30 Tibetans have set themselves alight in the past year in protest against Beijing’s repressive and destructive rule in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region and other areas.

A-bian gets psychiatric medicine, wants to know why

Taipei Times

Chen Chih-chung, second left, son of former president Chen Shui-bian, holds up a bunch of flowers and a get-well-soon card that he received from a group of Tainan residents on behalf of his father in Taoyuan County yesterday.
Photo: Li Jung-ping, Taipei Times

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has requested that prison authorities explain why he was given psychiatric medication when he had not asked to see a psychiatrist, Chen’s office secretary Chiang Chih-ming (江志銘) yesterday.

Chen Chih-chung (陳致中), Chen Shui-bian’s son, said the medical team at the government-run Taoyuan General Hospital discovered a drug normally used to treat psychiatric conditions in the former president’s list of medications.

Sixty-five years ago Taiwan was a Kuomintang killing ground

Michael Richardson

Kuomintang victim in Taiwan

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WikiCommons

Sixty-five years ago, March 8, 1947, the bloodshed that came to be known as the 228 Massacre began in wholesale numbers as Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang troops, battle-hardened by years of fighting with the Japanese and then the Chinese Communists, came ashore on the island of Taiwan.

We are not terrorists

Phayul.com

A screen grab of the a short video clip released by Sky News showing rows of Chinese paramilitary forces manning the streets of Ngaba, eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSHALA, March 8: Even as senior Chinese leaders hogged the media in Beijing, on the sidelines of the rubber stamp parliamentary session, describing self-immolations in Tibet as “terrorism in disguise,” Tibetans at the centre of the protests have a completely different story to tell.

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