February 28th is a national holiday in Taiwan to remember the events of 1947. As I mentioned last year, the definitive history of this (for English speakers) is Formosa Betrayed by George Kerr – which is available online. Kerr was an American diplomat in Taiwan who was an eye-witness to it all:
From an upper window we watched Nationalist soldiers in action in the alleys across the way. We saw Formosans bayoneted in the street without provocation. A man was robbed before our eyes – and then cut down and run through. Another ran into the street in pursuit of soldiers dragging a girl away from his house and we saw him, too, cut down.
This sickening spectacle was only the smallest sample of the slaughter then taking place throughout the city, only what could be seen from one window on the upper floor of one rather isolated house. The city was full of troops.
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Shame on Ma Ying-jeou for not apologizing! And shame on Chiang’s grandson!
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Here’s a Wikipedia link on Kerr, for those who are interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Kerr
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MYJ apologized, numerous times in the past 2 weeks for KMT’s role in the 228 incident, and stated that he will be willing to apologize continuously. I wonder where you are getting your news / facts from.
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I was referring to the KMT’s 228 ceremony, where he DID NOT apologize.
It seem that he made up for that embarrassment later however (from what I’ve read today). Better late than never, I guess.
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