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CHERRY-PICKED HISTORY: A site that credits Chiang Ching-kuo with liberal reforms and the end of martial law ignores his involvement in the White Terror, the commission saidBy Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Taipei City Government is glorifying authoritarianism with today’s opening of a heritage site to honor former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), the Transitional Justice Commission said yesterday.
The Ching-kuo Chi-hai Cultural Park (經國七海文化園區) in Taipei’s Dazhi (大直) area, jointly built and operated by the city government and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, features Chiang’s diaries and paintings, among other items.
The site’s installations do not address Chiang’s role in the White Terror era, the commission said, adding that the city should rename or redesign the park.
Citing its own report from September last year, the commission said that during the