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DPP accuses Ma of brainwashing students

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators yesterday accused President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of trying to “de-Taiwanize” high school textbooks to “brainwash” students.

A textbook review committee is making final reviews of various textbook editions for the next school year that starts in September to make sure they follow a curriculum approved in 2009.

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Indians to observe 2013 as ‘Year of Tibetan Independence’

(From left to right) J P Sharma, co-convener of Core Group at
Delhi, Vijay Kranti, Core Group’s national co-convener, and Lama
Choephel Zotpa, National Co-convener, Core Group for Tibetan Cause
addressing the press in Dharamshala on June 11, 2012. (Phayul
photo/Norbu Wangyal)
(From left to right) J P Sharma, co-convener of Core Group at Delhi, Vijay Kranti, Core Group’s national co-convener, and Lama Choephel Zotpa, National Co-convener, Core Group for Tibetan Cause addressing the press in Dharamshala on June 11, 2012. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

DHARAMSHALA, June 11: At the conclusion of the three-day Fourth All India Tibet Support Groups Conference, organisers today said that Indian supporters will hold a massive rally for Tibet in the Indian capital New Delhi this coming February in commemoration of 2013 as the “Year of Tibetan Independence.”

“A massive rally will be organised in February in the Indian capital in which Indian Tibet support groups and supporters will actively participate,” Vijay Kranti, a long time Tibet supporter and one of the core conveners of the conference said. “We expect over one hundred-thousand supporters to take part in the rally.”

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Newsflash

Supporters greet Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, center, as she arrives at the launch in Taipei yesterday of a campaign support group set up for her by four associations of political victims.

Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times

Victims of political persecution and their families yesterday voiced support for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), while expressing the hope that she would pursue transitional justice if she is elected in January’s presidential election.

An alliance of four major associations of political victims consisting of victims of the 228 Massacre and the White Terror era announced the formation of a booster club for the DPP’s presidential candidate at a press conference.