Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/25
By: Liu Kuan-ting, Lu Hsin-hui, Yeh Su-ping and William Yen
Taipei, April 25 (CNA) The government will not bow down to violence and the planned
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文)/CNA file photo
military pension reform will go ahead, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday in the wake of a protest that turned violent at the gates of the Legislative Yuan earlier that day.
Tsai made the remarks in a Facebook post, stressing that those who resorted to violence cannot stand for patriotic members of the armed forces who are loyal to the country’s citizens.
The protesters from the veterans group “800 Warriors” who were protesting against a government bill to reform their pension system clashed with police as they tried to tear down the police barricade to enter the Legislature building.
Some protesters threw bottles, plastic chairs, sticks, stones and smoke bombs, which resulted in injury to 32 police officers and 11 reporters, according to the Executive Yuan. Police arrested 63 people. [FULL STORY]
