Taipei Times
Date: Feb 18, 2017
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee’s measures to seize illicit Chinese Nationalist Party
228 Memorial Foundation Chairman Hsueh Hua-yuan yesterday speaks at a news conference in Taipei. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
(KMT) assets would fulfill the long-standing wishes of 228 Incident victims, representatives of victims’ families said yesterday.
Speaking at a news conference, the representatives also expressed their support for the government’s efforts toward transitional justice.
“We have been compensated, but the entire nation had to pay for it, not the perpetrators,” Taiwan 228 Incident Care Association director-general Pan Hsin-hsing (潘信行) said, adding that seizure of KMT assets by the committee would cover the costs of compensation.
“The committee’s moves to handle the issue are exactly what we filed for years ago, but failed to attain,” he said, referring to a suit brought by victims’ families to have the KMT pay compensation. [FULL STORY]
