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Red tape, Ma share blame for Heping
By Shie Deng-yuan 謝登元
Over the years, former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has earned the nickname “Mr Teflon” for his uncanny ability to shake off scandals and dodge political flak.
On Monday, Ma who was Taipei mayor during the SARS outbreak in 2003 through his office issued a statement claiming that a controversial lockdown of Taipei City Hospital’s Heping branch was “an order from the central government, implemented at a local level.”
However, a Public Television Service (PTS) documentary,
Heping Storm (和平風暴), paints a different picture, allowing viewers to separate fact from fiction.
Chen Wei-cang (陳維滄), the chairman of a foundation that I work for, sponsored PTS to make the documentary. Chen had no political axe to grind; he was motivated purely in terms of public service. This allowed the documentary to examine the events surrounding the lockdown objectively and from multiple angles and it in
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