Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

The National Archives Administration of the Republic of China in-exile holds thousands of letters from condemned prisoners that were never delivered.  The tragic letters were written from political prisoners before execution, their last words to loved ones.

In an apparent attempt to hide the crimes committed by the ROC during the White Terror era, when a brutal martial law was imposed on Taiwan, the last letters were kept from family members.

There were three developments this week that should serve as a cautionary tale for those pushing for closer cross-strait relations.

The first came in Apple’s annual supplier responsibility report, which said that audits of 127 suppliers’ factories in Taiwan, China, Malaysia and elsewhere had found labor, safety and other abuses, though it praised local firm Foxconn Technology Group for its handling of a wave of suicides at its factories in China.