《TAIPEI TIMES》Human rights activist Tsai Kun-lin dies at the age of 93 - 焦點 ltn.com.tw - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ltn.com.tw Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CLARIFYING HISTORY: A memorial to Chen Wen-chen was completed in February, but students and faculty complained that it lacked context about who it was forBy Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A plaque at Chen Wen-chen (陳文成) Memorial Square is to include a phrase indicating that Chen was likely murdered, the National Taiwan University (NTU) school affairs council said yesterday.
Chen, an assistant professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, died while visiting Taiwan. His body was found on the morning of July 3, 1981, outside the library on the NTU campus in Taipei.
A day earlier, the 31-year-old had been detained and interrogated by the now-defunct Taiwan Garrison Command, a secret police body which sought to question him about his financial contributions to the pro-democracy <i>Formosa Magazine</i>.
Some people suspect that Chen was
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