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Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) on Saturday unveiled a monument and opened a special exhibition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 228 Incident.
Protesters on Feb. 28, 1947, demanded the arrest of those responsible for the indiscriminate killing of a bystander in an angry crowd the previous day, and were machine-gunned by security personnel. A brutal crackdown followed, in which tens of thousands died during nearly four decades of martial law.
The monument, called The Starting Point to the Road of Justice and Courage (正義與勇氣之路起點), has been placed at the former Tainan Prefecture Council, which housed an assembly hall during Japanese
Local governments nationwide have launched safety inspections on old residential blocks and buildings with mixed commercial use in the wake of Thursday’s deadly fire in Kaohsiung’s Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building, which claimed 46 lives and injured dozens.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said on Friday that while the Ministry of the Interior’s regulations require fire safety inspections for buildings of 16 stories or higher, the Taipei City Government has since 2014 mandated safety inspection for buildings of 11 stories or higher.
Ko added that Taipei has 124 buildings that are mixed residential and commercial properties.
The Taipei City Government on Friday said