The China Post
Date: September 21, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Demonstrators outside the Interior Ministry demanded Tuesday that the government suspend all development projects that depend on forced evictions.

Protesters who faced eviction stood outside the ministry, joined by members of the Taiwan Alliance of Anti-Forced Eviction (反迫遷陣線) and the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (台灣人權促進會).

They condemned the government for pushing through development projects that they claimed enriched big corporations by violating individuals’ right to housing.

Homeowners affected by forced evictions should be included in the planning stage of the government’s development projects, they said.

They also said that laws governing urban renewal plans should be amended before the government proceeds with any current project.

Demonstrators asked the government to promise that all progress on the projects would be suspended until the requests were met.      [FULL  STORY]