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