INJUSTICE: The bill proposes setting up a committee that would probe infringements of Aboriginal rights through coercive measures and encroachments on their territories

Taipei Times
Date: May 11, 2018
By: Sean Lin  /  Staff reporter

The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a draft act to create an Aboriginal historical justice and land surveying committee to probe past injustices and complete a survey of historical Aboriginal territories.

According to the bill, the proposed committee would probe infringements on Aboriginal rights through law, armed assaults or other coercive measures.

Unlike the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), which deals with injustices the government perpetrated against people from the end of World War II till the end of the Period of National Mobilization against Communist Rebellion, the proposed act would not set limits on the time frame for such cases.

The Council of Indigenous Peoples provided examples of encroachments on Aboriginal rights, including those committed by Dutch and Spanish invaders, the Dutch East India Co, Cheng Cheng-kung (鄭成功, also known as Koxinga), the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese colonial government, pirates and intruders.    [FULL  STORY]