PERSONAL CAUSE:DPP  Legislator Tuan Yi-kang in December last year vowed to have an Aboriginal transitional justice bill passed in six months, or resign from his seat

Taipei Times
Date: May 07, 2018
By: Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Executive Yuan is scheduled to approve a proposed transitional justice bill for Aborigines on Thursday before submitting it to the Legislative Yuan for review, Minister Without Portfolio Lin Wan-yi (林萬億) said on Saturday.

The proposed bill, titled “the Aboriginal historical justice and restitution act,” represents a personal victory for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (段宜康), who is convener of the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.

In December last year, Tuan vowed that he would within six months either see the nation pass a transitional justice bill dedicated to people of Aboriginal descent or resign his seat as a lawmaker.

His pledge was a response to the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), which was passed by the legislature on Dec. 5 last year and has been criticized for failing to address Aborigines’ historical grievances.    [FULL  STORY]