Tracing the footsteps of 228
Follow the route that angry protesters took on Feb. 28, 1947 when they clashed with the police and military to experience further the history of the bloody incident
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Banging on drums and gongs, furious protesters marched south along Taipei’s Dihua Street (迪化街) in the morning of Feb. 28, 1947.
They turned east on Nanjing W Road (南京西路) until they reached Yanping N Road (延平北路), where the initial incident that triggered the demonstrations had happened a day earlier. Now an ordinary apartment building, 189 Nanjing W Road once housed the Tianma Tea House (天馬茶房), where police and Tobacco and Liquor Monopoly Bureau investigators struck an elderly woman selling contraband cigarettes and a bystander was accidentally shot and killed in the ensuing commotion.
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