‘SEPARATE NATIONS’: You Si-kun said that the principle of popular sovereignty and the charters of the UN clearly show that Taiwan’s sovereignty belongs to its peopleBy Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Former Presidential Office secretary-general Chang Tsu-i (張祖詒), at the age of 104, has published a book titled The President and I: A historical record of unusual times in politics (總統與我：政壇奇緣實錄).
In the book, Chang writes about a visit to the Dasi Archives in 1984 at the request of then-president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), to study dossiers and records relating to the 228 Incident.
The purpose was to allow Chang to investigate the role of the former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government at the time based in Nanjing to assess the extent to which it made mistakes and was responsible for the
A new book on the Kaohsiung Incident claims that a man with an organized crime background was instructed to attack Formosa Magazine’s office in Kaohsiung several times before the incident.
The Kaohsiung Incident, also known as the Formosa Incident, refers to a police crackdown, under the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime, on a rally held by Formosa Magazine and opposition politicians on Dec. 10, 1979, to mark Human Rights Day.
The book on the incident, as well as the events leading up to it and its aftermath, was released on Saturday by Academia Historica and the National Human Rights Museum.
It claims that
/ Staff writer, with CNAA new book on the Kaohsiung Incident claims that a man with an organized crime background was instructed to attack Formosa Magazine’s office in Kaohsiung several times before the incident.
Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) A new book has revealed that a man with an organized crime background was instructed to attack the office of Formosa Magazine in Kaohsiung several times before a demonstration organized by the magazine was suppressed, and then was turned on by the authorities.