BACKPEDALING: The central bank’s claim that replacing currency would be costly is ‘ridiculous,’ especially as it is minting more coins for claw machines, a TSU official said
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 23, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) and victims of the nation’s authoritarian era
Taiwan Solidarity Union administrative director Chou Ni-an, center, and political victims join hands at a news conference in Taipei yesterday to express their support for Transitional Justice Commission spokeswoman Yang Tsui and her efforts to promote transitional justice. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
yesterday expressed solidarity with the Transitional Justice Commission as they accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration of shying away from transitional justice.
The Legislative Yuan last year passed the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), which provided the legal basis on which the commission was founded and can exercise its authority, TSU administrative director Chou Ni-an (周倪安) told a news conference in Taipei.
However, the entire administration, from President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), the Ministry of National Defense and the Veterans Affairs Council to the central bank, has distanced itself from the commission’s legally mandated task of removing publicly displayed authoritarian symbols, she said, referring to a proposal by the commission to replace coins and banknotes that bear the portrait of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石).
Executive Yuan members who have spoken out against the proposal should step down for opposing a law ratified by the president, she said. [FULL STORY]
