Intelligence agencies likely involved in Lin family murder: report

Focus Taiwan
Date: 02/17/2020
By: Matt Yu, Wang Yang-yu and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) Taiwan's intelligence apparatus was likely involved in the shocking triple homicide of a democracy activist's family members 40 years ago, but the destruction of key evidence has made it hard to draw firm conclusions, a new report has found.

The report, released by the Transitional Justice Commission (TJC), summarized the TJC's findings from its investigation of the murder of Lin Yi-hsiung's (林義雄) mother and twin daughters at Lin's residence on Feb. 28, 1980 in a case that has never been solved.

The report is based on a review of related historical files related to the case that were declassified due to the passage of the Political Archives Act in July 2019.

It is widely believed that the authoritarian Kuomintang regime of the time was responsible for the act, which took place while Lin was detained for his opposition to the government, but the report did not reach any specific conclusions on the perpetrator.    [FULL  STORY]