Taipei Times
Date: Oct 11, 2017
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Students and members of pro-Taiwanese independence groups yesterday held a
Members of the Free Taiwan Party and other pro-Taiwanese independence groups stand around an effigy representing the Republic of China at a mock funeral on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times
“funeral” in Taipei, where they performed last rites for an effigy representing the “corpse” of the Republic of China (ROC), rejecting official Double Ten National Day celebrations and calling for the establishment of the nation of “Taiwan.”
About 200 people gathered on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building and held the ceremony and street theater performances.
The event was organized by university students, members of the band Northbird Singing Revolution and pro-independence groups From Ethnos to Nation (FETN, 蠻番島嶼社) and Nylon’s Canteen (暗暝合作社).
FETN member Chen Yu-chang (陳俞璋) presided over the funeral ceremony that involved traditional Taiwanese rituals, saying that the ROC regime was exterminated in 1949 with the Chinese Communist Party’s victory in the Chinese Civil War and the founding of the People’s Republic of China. [FULL STORY]
