TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: A Cabinet representative appeared in court to defend the premier’s appointment of a new chair of the justice commission, after a KMT complaint
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 02, 2018
By: Lee Hsin-fang, Wen Yu-te and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Transitional Justice Commission is considering donating statues of Chiang Kai-shek
A statue of a seated Chiang Kai-shek is pictured in the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park in Taoyuan’s Dasi District on Oct. 25. Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
(蔣介石) to willing communities, repurposing them as art or replacing them with statues of locally born people, commission Acting Chairwoman Yang Tsui (楊翠) said on Wednesday.
There is more than one way to deal with authoritarian symbols such as statues of Chiang Kai-shek and former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), she said.
That could mean removing them, replacing them with statues of local historical or literary figures, converting them into installation art or giving them to former military dependents’ villages that might be interested in “adopting” them, she said.
While removing the statues would be an option, it would not be the only one, she said.
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