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Taiwan Remembers Feb. 28 Incident - Worldpress.org The bloody episode, known in Taiwan by the numerals "228," continues to provoke controversy. The episode was not taught in schools and was a taboo topic in public discussions. In the study, entitled "The 228 Incident: A Report on Responsibility," a group of historians claims that K.M.T. leader Chiang Kai-shek was personally responsible for the massacre. www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=2397&dont=yes   (667 words)

Remembering 2-28 The Kuomintang authorities did not want to be reminded of their dark past, and the people did not dare to speak out for fear of retribution by the KMT's secret police. It will be inscribed on the 228 monument to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incident. The democratic opposition has urged the government to identify those responsible for the massacre and to prosecute those who are still alive. www.taiwandc.org /228-intr.htm   (1697 words)

Massacres Massacres are massacres, whether six million or one hundred thousand.(p.269) THE KING DAVID MASSACRE: Many massacres were first aimed at dislodging the British from Palestine. The massacre on January 5, 1948, was a direct responsibility of the Jewish Agency leader David Ben Gurion and the Haganah leaders Moshe Sneh and Yesrael Galili. The massacre of Kibya on October 14, 1953, was a continuation of such brutal massacres. www.ntcsites.com /palestine/statistics   (3498 words)

228 Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 228 Incident (Chinese: 二二八事件; pinyin: èr èr bā shìjiàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Jī-jī-pat sū-kiāⁿ) or 228 Massacre was an uprising in the Republic of China (Taiwan) that began on February 28, 1947 and was suppressed by the Kuomintang government, resulting in thirty thousand or sixty thousand civilians killed. Among other memorials erected, Taipei New Park was renamed 228 Memorial Park and the 228 Incident Memorial Foundation was established to compensate victims and their families. The failure of dialogue with the ROC authorities in early March, combined with the feelings of betrayal felt towards the government and mainland China in general is widely believed to have been one of the major factors behind the birth of the Taiwan independence movement. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/228_Incident   (2291 words)

228 228 massacre, happened in 28 February 1947, is one of the cruelest tragedies of Taiwanese history. However, several vital official documents and files relative to 228 massacre are still unable to be revealed, several victims are still unable to be rehabilitated or are even unknown. If 228 massacre is mere a story of no return, why should we memorized the bloody years. web.ics.purdue.edu /~iltc/activity/228.html   (534 words)

228 Memorial Day in Taiwan - Chinese Culture Recognized on February 28th, the 228 Memorial Day is a time of reflecting on a tragic event and a hope for Peace in all our lives. The name "228 Memorial" came from the fact that the report was entitled "February 28 Incident Research Report". 228 Memorial Day is a call, not only for the Taiwanese people, but for the people of the world to seek peace and not like these types of massacres happen again. www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29303.asp   (647 words)

Inscription on the 228 Massacre Monument Erected in Taipei, Taiwan on 28 February 1997 to commemorate the 228 Massacre. It rises above 228 Memorial Park in central Taipei and serves as a reminder to the lessons that we should learn from this tragic event in Taiwanese history. Accordingly, investigation and research into the 228 Massacre were started; the Head of State issued a public apology; the victims and their families were compensated; and a monument was erected. www.taiwandocuments.org /228_02.htm   (730 words)

228 Massacre, 60th Commemoration It refers to the date February 28th 1947, when the arrest of a cigarette vendor in Taipei led to large-scale protests by the native Taiwanese against the corruption and repression of Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists, who came over from China and occupied Taiwan "on behalf of the Allied Forces" after Japan's defeat in 1945. The Kuomintang did not want to be reminded of their dark past, and the Taiwanese did not dare to speak out for fear of retribution by the KMT’s secret police. In Taiwan, the event will be remembered through a series of commemorative gatherings, while in Washington DC a symposium at the Brookings Institution, which will call attention to the importance of 228 in understanding present-day Taiwan. www.taiwandc.org /228-60.htm   (1196 words)

YouTube - Apologies for Reporting Taiwan 228 Massacre? (勇於報導228真相而須道歉? Even though February 28 of this year (2007) marked the 60th anniversary of Taiwan 228 Massacre, the foreign KMT party to date still has a strong hold on Taiwan Legislature and government body and controls almost all the news media. In February this year, we (the families and friends of Taiwan 228 victims and martyrs) were so grateful to see that Miss CHEN Yar-Ling of Sanlih SET TV had the great courage to edit and broadcast in public a series of special reports in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Taiwan 228 Massacres of 1947. Indeed, during the 40 years of suppressive martial law in Taiwan, the KMT party regime has successfully erased, forged or hided almost all records of the 228 Massacre, and by means of oppressive bureaucracy very few teachers dared to discuss the 228 Massacres in public schools. www.youtube.com /watch?v=tAn2Cj1grUw   (977 words)

/CORRECTION*/DEATH PENALTY: Beslan Massacre at the Core of Russian Debate MOSCOW, Apr 10 (IPS) - The only hostage-taker to survive the Beslan school tragedy has received unlikely support in his bid to avoid the death penalty: a group of parents whose children died in the September 2004 attack. >From 1989 to 1991, 470 people were given death sentences and 228 were executed. But between 1992 and 1995, the number of executions fell to 10 per year. www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=32838   (1127 words)

San Bei Ji » Blog Archive » The 228 Massacre Much like 9/11, this date is known in Taiwan simply by it’s numbers: “228″, and is recognized each year by the Taiwanese for what happened there 56 years ago. The Kuomintang then proceeded to massacre thousands of people, moving from city to city and killing civilians indiscriminately. Taiwan was ruled with an iron fist by the Kuomintang afterwards. www.sanbeiji.com /?p=103   (389 words)

YouTube - Serious Apology ever made for Taiwan 228 Massacre?   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Before 228 massacre there were a series massacre taken place in Mainland under KMT government. During the bloody Taiwan 228 Massacre in 1947 and the subsequent white-terror era enforced by imposing martial law on Taiwan people for over 39 years long, thousands innocent Taiwan civilians have been killed. Notice that a bald guy stood in the center of the TV screen, who kept interrupting the lady from attempting to express her honest opinions (about Taiwan 228 Massacre and the polluted environments) to then Chairman Ma; sadly to wit that guy also a grandchild of a victim killed in Taiwann 228 Massacre! youtube.com /?v=hPqPCj2lTyc   (396 words)

Land+Living: Conceal/Surface - 228 National Memorial Park A UC Berkeley design team has won the competition for a 15-acre park in Chiayi, Taiwan, a monument to peace commemorating the 228 Incident - a tragedy which occurred on February 28, 1947, when government soldiers killed thousands of Taiwanese citizens. The 228 massacre was one of poorly resolved tragedy resulted from post-colonial and WWII aftermath's transitional government violence upon civilians. Because of the Cold War and an autocratic ruling regime, the historic event was held as political taboo for decades and only recently surfaced mostly as some politicians' manipulative discussion ploy. www.landliving.com /articles/0000001022.aspx   (277 words)

The 228 Massacre - Related sites 228 Massacre Against Humanity: Taiwan's Tragedy Remembered - by the University of Sasketchewan students. The Dili Massacre - in East Timor, 1991. The August 8, 1988 Massacre - in Burma. 228.lomaji.com /sites.html   (101 words)

Color photograph of Lt. Col. Jochen Peiper, accused of murder in the Malmedy Massacre proceeding at Dachau Jochen Peiper, the main one of the 73 accused in the Malmedy Massacre Military Tribunal proceedings, was not a member of the Nazi party, although he had joined the Hitler Youth as a young boy and then, at the age of 19, applied for admission to the elite Waffen-SS in 1934. Eventually all 73 of the convicted German war criminals in the Malmedy Massacre case were released from Landsberg prison, including Col. Peiper who was freed on December 22, 1956, the last of the accused to finally walk out of Landsberg. The bodies of the Malmedy Massacre victims were buried in temporary graves at Henri-Chappelle, 25 miles north of the village of Malmedy. www.scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/MalmedyMassacre04.html   (3517 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: ) 228 marks the date, February 28, of the 1947 Taiwanese people's uprising against the Chiang Kaishek's Kuomintang government which after fleeing mainland China took control of Taiwan during the mid-1940's. For the 38 years Taiwan remained under martial law and talk of the 228 incident was forbidden until martial law ended in 1987. Chang, a prominent Taiwanese lawyer and freedom fighter, was killed in the 228 massacre. www.rangzen.org /archive/98/02_taiwan/022898.html   (356 words)

Taiwanese Collegian: 228 Massacre remembered...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The "2-28 Massacre" serves as a burning memory in the minds of the Taiwanese, who were subsequently subjected to four decades of repressive Republic of China rule until Martial Law was lifted in 1987. The misery for those Taiwan men who were sacrificed in 228 massacre is ended at the moment of blood shed. It traces the causes and consequences of the massacre of Taiwanese by the Chiang Kai-Shek troops on February 28, 1947. tc.formosa.org /228/1999/activities99.html   (965 words)

BERKELEY / Cal team's bamboo design wins Taiwan massacre memorial contest / Team uses plants as a metaphor in park ... Their plan for the 15-acre "228 National Memorial Park" in the city of Chiayi resembles a very low-rise pyramid, with gently sloping, unequal sides and the bamboo room at its apex. Revealing the massacre and the party's accountability for it has become a weapon for the political opposition, which won power in 2000 with the election of President Chen Shui-bian. There already are a 228 Peace Park and museum in Taipei, but the area is a renamed city facility. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/06/BAG1BI44BQ1.DTL   (655 words)

Taiwanese Tenghui Study Group @ the University of Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: ) This historical incident was strictly classified before Lee Teng-Hui's presidency, and at the seminar, we will introduce and review the history background of the 228 Massacre in Taiwan. The Massacre was believed to be the most horrible catastrophe in the history of Taiwan, and it marked the beginning of the Chinese Nationalist dictatorship for more than half a century. Today on February 28th, 2004, more than one hundred and twenty people participated in our "Hand in Hand" rally at the Red Square of the University of Washington in Seattle and echo the "Hands Across Taiwan" rally that was held in Taiwan 16 hours earlier. students.washington.edu /taiwanuw/news.htm   (897 words)

The world's top 228 incident websites The 228 Incident (二二八事件) or 228 Massacre was an uprising in Taiwan that began on February 28, 1947. This was followed by the "White Terror" in which many thousands of Taiwanese were imprisoned or executed for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang military regime, leaving many native Taiwanese with a deep-seated bitterness to the mainlanders. They formed a 500-kilometer (300-mile) long human chain, from Taiwan's northernmost city, Keelung, to its southern tip, to commemmorate the 228 Incident, to call for peace, and to protest the PRC's deployment of missiles aimed at Taiwan along the mainland coast. dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/228_incident   (1035 words)

The Agonist: Pleading guilty to war crimes massacre Chicago Tribune: Former Bosnian Serb police officer Darko Mrdja pleaded guilty at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Thursday to involvement in the massacre of more than 200 non-Serb men on a cliff edge in Bosnia in 1992. Mrdja, 36, confessed at a special hearing at the UN court to taking part in the shootings of at least 228 prisoners on Mt. Vlasic. The Bosnian Muslim and Croat victims, who had been told they would be released in a prisoner exchange, were driven from a detention camp to woods by a ravine where they were forced to kneel to be shot at the edge of a cliff. www.agonist.org /archives/005810.html   (147 words)

UA: Guatemala / Respond to an Urgent Action appeal now / Urgent Actions - Amnesty International Irish Section   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of witnesses of the Plan de Sánchez massacre and for the safety of human rights defenders after a series of death threats and acts of intimidation. Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of witnesses of the Plan de Sánchez massacre after a death threat note was found at the door of the home of one of the witnesses. CALDH is legal advisor to survivors of the Plan de Sánchez massacre in which 268 inhabitants of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz were killed by Guatemalan armed forces on 18 July 1982. www.amnesty.ie /user/content/view/full/2802   (1233 words)

BBC NEWS | Europe | Bosnian Serb jailed for massacre Mrdja was a police commander in the northwestern Serb-dominated city of Prijedor, where thousands of non-Serb civilians were captured and held in detention camps when the Bosnian war erupted in 1992. The indictment against Mrdja said that hundreds of Muslim and Croat prisoners from the town of Tukovi were put on buses which set off from northern Bosnia heading for Travnik, north-west of Sarajevo. His lawyers had asked for a sentence of no more than 15 years, arguing that he acted under the orders of his superiors and expressed remorse for his crime. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3586723.stm   (391 words)

americas.org - Cop Sentenced for Massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Mario Pantoja to 228 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 19 landless peasants on April 17, 1996, in Eldorado dos Carajos in the northern state of Pará. A total of 150 military police agents are accused in the massacre. Pantoja will serve 12 years for each of the deaths that occurred when police fired at a crowd of 1,500 or more members of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) as they blocked a road to push for agrarian reform. www.americas.org /item_7740   (165 words)

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE: Consequently, an uprising known as the "228 Incident" erupted in 1947 and resulted in numerous deaths among the Taiwanese - a traumatic tragedy resulting from forced unification. In essence, the 228 Massacre was quite similar to massacres during early Japanese colonial rule for the fact that they were colonial efforts to suppress resistance of the colonized. After 228, Taiwan was dragged into the Chinese civil war which had nothing to do with Taiwan itself. www.taiwan-info.at /html/english/coexistence_en.htm   (6037 words)

Summary of 228 Massacre - 51 Anniversary Special Talk   (Site not responding. Last check: ) TSS is presenting the 228 memorial on this Saturday, February 28. This year is the 51st anniversary of 228. Last year, he presented the series of 228 50th anniversary memorial events successfully. asu.edu /studentprgms/orgs/tss/activity/spring98/228event/summary.html   (123 words)

BBC News | AMERICAS | Brazil jails peasant massacre officer A Brazilian court has jailed a senior police officer for 228 years for his role in the killing of of 19 landless peasants in 1996. Over the past 10 years, land disputes in Brazil have led to endemic violence in the countryside, with several hundred landless protesters being killed. But the 1996 killing is described as the biggest peasant massacre in Brazilian history. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/1991281.stm   (425 words)

GEOPOLITICS OF THE FORT DEARBORN MASSACRE   (Site not responding. Last check: )                         tribes engaged in the massacre, and from the published accounts. H3                           The Fort Dearborn massacre, written in 1814 by Lieutenant Linai T. Helm, one of the C4C4                       The Fort Dearborn Massacre: Kinzie vs. Quaife. www.chicagohs.org /collections/historyfair/subjects/bibliographies/ft_dearborn_massacre_1812.htm   (533 words)

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