Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/28
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan on Wednesday mourned the tens of thousands of victims

Lin Li-tsai (林黎彩)

killed or jailed during the crackdown launched by the Kuomintang (KMT) regime in the wake of an anti-government uprising on Feb. 28, 1947, widely known as the 228 Incident.

At a ceremony hosted by the Memorial Foundation of 228 at Taipei’s 228 Peace Memorial Park, Lin Li-tsai (林黎彩), delivered a speech on behalf of families of the victims. Lin said her father Lin Chieh (林界) was detained and shot by the military in Kaohsiung at the age 37.

What happened to her father during the crackdown and its aftermath has haunted her whole life, the 71-year-old Lin said.    [FULL  STORY]