The China Post
Date: September 4, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
More than 110,000 civil servants and supporters took to the streets in Taipei Saturday, protesting what
Demonstrators chant “No defamation!” and “We want respect!” at the protest in Taipei on Saturday.
(CNA)
they say is the government’s defamation of public sector workers in ongoing pension reform efforts.
The demonstrators set off from four separate starting points, eventually converging in front of the Presidential Office on Ketagalan Boulevard (凱達格蘭大道) around 3 p.m.
The organizers — the Pension Reform Oversight Coalition (監督年金改革行動聯盟) — claimed more than 250,000 people took part in the protest, but official police figures put the number at 117,000.
Retired Gen. and former Premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) appeared at the protest alongside his son, Kuomintang (KMT) Deputy Chairman Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌).
In an interview with local reporters, the pair called on the Tsai administration to “look after, respect and honor” public sector workers.
Protesters along the route cheered the former premier as he joined the march with his son.
The younger Hau charged the government with deliberately triggering class conflict in the name of reform. [FULL STORY]