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Indigenous rights are ignored by Ma’s policies

Nine Truku Aborigines of Mqmgi Village in Hualien County recently were charged by the police with violating the Controlling Guns, Ammunition and Knives Act (槍砲彈藥刀械管制條例) and with threatening people.

About a year ago, to safeguard their land, the nine attempted to stop a large group of tourists from flooding into the Mqmgi Scenic Area (慕谷慕魚風景區) by blocking the road and shooting a firearm into the air to claim their land rights. However, their attempt to protect their tribal land in this way resulted in police charges.

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Ma draws fire over new grand justice nominees


President Ma Ying-jeou’s nominees for grand justices, left to right, National Taiwan University law professor Tsai Ming-cheng, Deputy Minister of Justice Wu Chen-huan, lawyer Huang Horng-shya and Shilin District Court President Lin Jyun-yi pose for a picture in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) latest nominations for grand justices drew criticism yesterday, as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators and civic groups questioned not only his right to nominate candidates, but also whether a judge who acquitted him in a corruption case is an appropriate nominee.

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Brazen brainwashing mocks democracy

The brazen hypocrisy of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government has once again been on blatant display this week after a revelation by opposition lawmakers and civic organizations that the new edition of high-school textbooks has failed to give proportional mention of — or even simply omitted — historical events, such as the 228 Massacre and the White Terror era.

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The route Tsai should go with the ‘status quo’

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) statement that maintaining the “status quo” will be the foundation for how she handles cross-strait relations has drawn a variety of responses. Perhaps the responses from the pro-China camp can be ignored, but even the pro-localization camp is raising questions: What is the “status quo” and how will Taiwan develop?

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Newsflash

Prison officials are preventing a magazine column written by former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) from going to print, his son, Chen Chih-chung (陳致中), said yesterday.

Greater Kaohsiung Councilor Chen Chih-chung said after visiting his father in Taipei Prison yesterday that prison officials had requested the column be revised a second time, after Chen Shui-bian complied with an earlier request.

As a result, it is unlikely that the article, for which the former president is understood to have been paid close to NT$20,000, will make it into tomorrow’s edition of Next Magazine, he said.