FAILURE:Human rights education needs to focus on the past and take in all areas of study so young people understand the importance of universal rights, the president said
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 30, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Adults, not students, are at fault for a Nazi cosplay incident on Friday last week, President Tsai Ing-wen
President Tsai Ing-wen, center, speaks at a meeting of the Human Rights Advisory Committee at the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
(蔡英文) said yesterday, adding that it was the result of the nation’s “superficial” human rights education and failure to teach young people about state repression of rights in the past.
Tsai made the remarks at the 25th meeting of the Presidential Office’s Human Rights Advisory Committee yesterday afternoon, urging Taiwanese to make an effort to let the nation’s human rights freedoms set the bar for other nations.
Since the cosplay event, students and school authorities at Hsinchu Kuang Fu High School have received an outpouring of criticism, with the former accused of ignorance and the latter of negligence.
The event also drew ire from the representative offices of Israel and Germany. The school’s principal, Cheng Hsiao-ming (程曉銘), resigned on Sunday. [FULL STORY]