Bruce Jacobs was once accused of involvement in triple murder of dissident family
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/11/16
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Australian Asia expert Bruce Jacobs, once accused of
Professor Bruce Jacobs (left) with Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. (By Central News Agency)
involvement in one of the highest-profile murders in modern Taiwanese history, received a top award from the foreign minister Friday.
Jacobs, 75, first visited Taiwan as a student in 1965 and now bears the title of emeritus professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, the Central News Agency reported.
In 1980, he was falsely accused of involvement in the murder of the mother and seven-year-old twin daughters of dissident Lin Yi-hsiung (林義雄) and was detained for three months before being banned from the country for 12 years.
The murders were never solved, but were widely believed to be the work of people close to the martial law authorities. Lin later became chairman of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. [FULL STORY]
