Redress

  The number of people killed in the 228 Incident of 1947 is beyond calculating. The long period of White Terror, with countless native Taiwanese and mainlanders dying at the Machangting, brought on a struggle for human rights. Forty years later, Cheng Nan-jung, who was born in that year, promoted a redress movement. On a speech-making tour of the island, he was surrounded by riot police everywhere he went. To medicate and rebuild the collective soul of the Taiwan people will require effort, so that the dark authoritarian shadow may be erased in all aspects, political, economic and cultural.

　　　　◆In December 2004, victims held a press conference regarding the content of recently declassified documents, requesting that the Legislative Yuan organize a Commission for the Investigation and Settlement of Post-War Historical Facts, to investigate who was liable during the autocratic period.(photo by Ronald Tsao)

　　　　◆19 May 2007, a group of victims of the February 28 Incident and the White Terror took part in a demonstration to change the name of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. They staged a sit-in displaying a banner reading: “Without truth there can be no reconciliation.”(photo by Ronald Tsao)