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Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) The daughter of late Taiwanese democracy advocate Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕) on Tuesday urged Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) to face his family's alleged dark history.
‘DARK HISTORY’: ‘Only by facing the past will he be able to gain the trust of citizens in Taiwan,’ Cheng Chu-mei said of Chiang Wan-an at a memorial event/ Staff writer, with CNA
Over 200 people march in Taipei ahead of 228 incident ANI | Updated: Feb 24, 2021 09:58 IST
Taipei [Taiwan], February 24 (ANI): More than 200 people marched in Taipei ahead of the 74th anniversary of the 228 incident, wherein about 20,000 people were massacred in Taiwan in a crackdown that began on February 28, 1947.
The rally held on February 21 was the fifth in a series of annual demonstrations first organized in 2017 by the Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Research Institute and the Nylon Cheng Liberty Foundation and Memorial Museum, according to a report by Taiwan Times.
The groups that participated in the rally included Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Covenants Watch and the 228 Memorial Foundation.
More than 200 march in Taipei in memory of 228
‘MAKING FORMOSA’: Before their march to the Executive Yuan, an organizer asked the crowd to imagine the kind of country they wanted and to ‘speak while we still can’
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
More than 200 people yesterday marched in Taipei ahead of the 74th anniversary of the 228 Incident.
The incident refers to a crackdown by the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime against anti-government protests that began on Feb. 28, 1947, when security personnel at the Governor-General’s Office in Taipei now the site of the Executive Yuan building opened fire on civilian demonstrators who were demanding the arrest of those responsible for the killing of a bystander in an incident the previous day.