Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) should be removed from Taiwanese banknotes and coins, the Transitional Justice Commission said in its final report as the ministy-level organization prepares to close tomorrow.
Chiang’s likeness should be removed from coins and notes when the central bank carries out a redesign of the nation’s currency, said the report, an official copy of which was handed to Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) by the commission’s acting minister Yeh Hung-ling (葉虹靈) at a ceremony in Taipei on Friday.
Images of Chiang are on NT$1 and NT$5 coins, and NT$200 banknotes.
Citing the findings of two expert panels that the commission organized in
The Transitional Justice Commission has filed a formal complaint with the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office against the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), alleging that the party is withholding political files.
The commission said that it has approached the KMT numerous times about gaining access to documents related to its espionage activities in China and elsewhere overseas during the Martial Law era, but was told repeatedly that it had no such files.
The commission alleged the KMT had files that it was trying to conceal, as well as some that it had deleted, which it said contravened the Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法).
The code
By Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Transitional Justice Commission has filed a formal complaint with the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office against the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT）, alleging that the party is withholding political files.
Taipei, May 23 (CNA) The Transitional Justice Commission on Monday unveiled a new list of 14 exonerations that include individuals unjustly convicted during Taiwan's martial law period.
Taiwan will continue to seek transitional justice after the dissolution of the Transitional Justice Commission later this year. The commission was est.