Taipei Times
Date: Jul 03, 2016
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Military officials have been busy apologizing for the past two weeks — for the killing of a dog by soldiers at a military base last week and the accidental firing of a missile by the navy that killed a fishing boat captain on Friday — but a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) official said the repeated expressions of remorse are sapping military morale.

KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) on Friday wrote in a Facebook post that it was wrong for soldiers to abuse and kill dogs and that the military needed to take action to handle such misconduct.

However, he added that when all ranks of the military and the Minister of National Defense have to bow in apology because of the abusers’ behavior, “I believe this hurts the morale and image of the military.”

Hau was responding to an army general’s Facebook post in which the general said he was quitting the army because of the ongoing pressure put on the military over the incident.     [FULL  STORY]