Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-05-09

After six years of planning, Taiwan’s national human rights museum will be officially designated in ceremonies next week at the museum’s two centers.

The Green Island Human Rights Culture Park will be officially dedicated on May 17. The museum’s director, Chen Chun-hong, said the date was chosen as May 17, 1951, was the date that the first group of political prisoners were dispatched to the prison on the small island off Taiwan’s southeast coast. A similar dedication will take place on May 18 at the Jing-Mei Human Rights Memorial and Culture Park in Taipei. The two sites were both places where political prisoners were imprisoned during the “White Terror” era when the former Kuomintang government ruled Taiwan under martial law.    [FULL  STORY]