Nation prepares to mark 228 Incident anniversary
IN MEMORIAM:：Services are planned across the nation,
as organizers hope to educate
the younger generation about the massacre 68 years ago
Staff writer, with CNA
Wed, Feb 25, 2015 - Page 3
A number of events are to be held across the nation over
the next few weeks to commemorate
the 68th anniversary of the 228 Incident, an
anti-government uprising and subsequent brutal
crackdown that occurred in 1947.
Two memorial services will be held at the 228 Peace
Memorial Park in Taipei on Saturday,
while music performances will staged at the plaza in front
of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum
every day from today to Saturday, the 228 Memorial
Foundation said.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and Democratic
Progressive Party Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen
(蔡英文) are scheduled to attend one of the memorial
services, which will include a concert to
commemorate the victims and their families, the Taiwan
Nation Alliance said.
For the third consecutive year, university students will
stage music and theater performances
at Liberty Square in front of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial
Hall, alongside exhibitions and
accounts of the event by academics and victims and their
families.
In Chiayi, a memorial service and a concert are planned
for tomorrow. An exhibition of
images and documents from the Incident will also open
tomorrow and run until March 22
at the Chiayi 228 Memorial Park Museum.
Other memorial services will be held in Kaohsiung, New
Taipei City, Taichung, Tainan,
Greater Taoyuan, Pingtung and Yunlin on Saturday and in
Keelung on March 8.
“228 is not a three-day holiday for people to go out and
travel,” Lin Wei-lien (林偉聯), a pastor
and officer of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and a
member of the Taiwan Nation Alliance,
said yesterday at a press conference at which the events
were announced.
He said he hopes the memorial services and exhibitions
will educate young people and
children about the Incident and help to ensure that such a
tragedy does not occur again in
Taiwan.
Although the government has apologized many times, it
is still unclear who should be held
accountable for the massacre and how many people died
during that period, according to
Hsueh Hua-yuan (薛化元), director of National Chengchi
University’s Graduate Institute of
Taiwan History and the Taiwan 228 Care Association.
The official documents show discrepancies regarding the
whereabouts of some people, he
added.
“Forgiveness is only possible when the truth has been
uncovered and the lessons of history
have been learned,” said Hsueh, calling for more research
to shed light on the Incident.
It is estimated that tens of thousands of Taiwanese, many
of them members of the intellectual
elite, were killed during the Chinese Nationalist Party
(KMT) government’s crackdown on the
uprising, which began on Feb. 28, 1947, 16 months after
Japan’s colonial rule over Taiwan
ended.
The crackdown was prelude to nearly four decades of
martial law.
the next few weeks to commemorate
the 68th anniversary of the 228 Incident, an
anti-government uprising and subsequent brutal
crackdown that occurred in 1947.
Memorial Park in Taipei on Saturday,
while music performances will staged at the plaza in front
of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum
every day from today to Saturday, the 228 Memorial
Foundation said.
Progressive Party Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen
(蔡英文) are scheduled to attend one of the memorial
services, which will include a concert to
commemorate the victims and their families, the Taiwan
Nation Alliance said.
stage music and theater performances
at Liberty Square in front of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial
Hall, alongside exhibitions and
accounts of the event by academics and victims and their
families.
for tomorrow. An exhibition of
images and documents from the Incident will also open
tomorrow and run until March 22
at the Chiayi 228 Memorial Park Museum.
Taipei City, Taichung, Tainan,
Greater Taoyuan, Pingtung and Yunlin on Saturday and in
Keelung on March 8.
travel,” Lin Wei-lien (林偉聯), a pastor
and officer of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and a
member of the Taiwan Nation Alliance,
said yesterday at a press conference at which the events
were announced.
will educate young people and
children about the Incident and help to ensure that such a
tragedy does not occur again in
Taiwan.
is still unclear who should be held
accountable for the massacre and how many people died
during that period, according to
Hsueh Hua-yuan (薛化元), director of National Chengchi
University’s Graduate Institute of
Taiwan History and the Taiwan 228 Care Association.
whereabouts of some people, he
added.
uncovered and the lessons of history
have been learned,” said Hsueh, calling for more research
to shed light on the Incident.
of them members of the intellectual
elite, were killed during the Chinese Nationalist Party
(KMT) government’s crackdown on the
uprising, which began on Feb. 28, 1947, 16 months after
Japan’s colonial rule over Taiwan
ended.
martial law.
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