Indigenous Basic Law News Today

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Indigenous Puyuma singer and activist Panai stares solemnly at a spot of dry, beige grass where her home in Taipei’s 228 Memorial Park used to be. On March 13, the Taipei City police announced they would tear down her encampment after almost two years of legal battles, in which the Taipei High Administrative Court ruled that Panai did not have the right to camp in the park as a form of protest. The task was completed the next day. Panai, as well as her Bunun artist and activist husband Nabu,...