The China Post
Date: September 26, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
Protesters on Ketagalan Boulevard roared, chanted and cried on Sunday afternoon as they pleaded
An 84-year-old resident whose house in Kaohsiung was demolished last week sits on Ketagalan Boulevard on Sunday, Sept. 25. (CNA)
with the Tsai administration to halt land expropriation projects and return them to their homes.
“One hundred days since the new government took office, nothing has changed,” demonstrators said. “Forced evictions have continued and the housing rights of a few have been sacrificed for the sake of major corporations.”
Thousands of victims of forced evictions and supporters from more than 60 civic groups participated in the event, which was organized by the Taiwan Alliance of Anti-Forced Eviction, the Taiwan Association for Human Rights and the Treasure Our Island Organization.
The civic groups represented residents from across the nation whose properties have been expropriated, primarily in Kaohsiung and New Taipei.
“We have been made domestic refugees,” said professor Hsu Shih-jung (徐世榮), a veteran land justice activist and the director of the Treasure Our Island [FULL STORY]
