Political prisoners' properties returned
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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
WHITE TERROR: During the Martial Law era, political prisoners were often charged with the now-repealed Punishment of Rebellion Act, a rights advocate saidBy Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
For some, inaugural president Chiang Kai-shek was a liberating hero, but for others he was a brutal dictator.
One autumn afternoon in the German city of Zwickau, a woman splashed 10 litres of gasoline around her apartment, then set it on fire.
While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese seemingly have other concerns. Today the hot issue is statues. To be precise, statues of Chiang Kai-shek, the post-war founder-dictator of independent modern Taiwan. In an inventory taken in 2000 it was estimated that there