Researchers have listed 45 sites linked to the White Terror era
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/28
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan’s National Human Rights Museum might use virtual reality
Culture Minister Cheng Li-chiun. (By Central News Agency)
to recreate sites related to the White Terror era if they have already been destroyed or changed, Culture Minister Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君) said Thursday.
The museum is likely to open next May, but in the meantime, the government has already drawn up a list of 45 locations which played a mostly tragic part in the repression after the 228 Incident in 1947, such as prisons and sites of executions.
At least 10,000 or more than 20,000 people died in the uprising against Kuomintang rule and during its long aftermath, when the government locked up, “disappeared” or executed suspected opponents.
One of the sites, an educational institute in Tucheng, New Taipei City, is now owned by the Ministry of National Defense, Storm Media reported. A relative of a White Terror victim asked the military to hand over the site to the museum. [FULL STORY]
