Taipei, April 14 (CNA) A court in Taipei on Thursday dismissed an administrative lawsuit by the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) to block the transfer of 33 documents related to the 228 Incident to Taiwan's national archives.
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The Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday ruled against the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) appeals to declare the Transitional Justice Commission’s 2019 and 2020 motions to transfer party documents to the state as illegal.
The ruling can be appealed.
In 2019, the commission, after reviewing 4,286 “Files Signed and Approved by the Director-General (總裁批簽)” referring to Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) had designated the files as “political files” and ordered them to be transferred to the state. The KMT filed an appeal against the transfer.
In 2020, the commission assigned the same designation to 80 “director-general files” that it said the KMT had not
By Wen Yu-te, Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writerThe Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday ruled against the Chinese Nationalist Party’s （KMT） appeals to declare the Transitional Justice Commission’s 2019 and 2020 motions to transfer party documents to the state as illegal.
The efforts of the Transitional Justice Commission, established in 2018 and set to be replaced by a “transitional justice board” under the Cabinet in May, have been portrayed as a power game between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), rather than a struggle for justice, reconciliation and inclusivity.
The Executive Yuan on Feb. 24 approved an amendment to the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例) that would create the board, which would review and coordinate transitional justice efforts among ministries and agencies following the commission’s dissolution.
Under the Cabinet’s plan, the Ministry of Justice would lead efforts to