Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/04
By: Yu Hsiang, Wang Yang-yu and Emerson Lim

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) A bill aimed at declassifying and archiving political files kept by Taiwan's government agencies and political parties during its period of authoritarian rule, cleared the Legislature on Thursday.

According to the bill, now an act, "political files" referred to documents related to the 228 Incident, the period of national mobilization for suppression of the communist rebellion and the period of martial law rule kept by government agencies, political parties and their attached agencies from Aug. 15, 1945 to Nov. 6, 1992, which is defined as the authoritarian period in Taiwan, based on the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice.

By unsealing historical records and revealing historical truths, the government hopes to advance social reconciliation, the Transitional Justice Commission said in a press statement Thursday.

Concerned government agencies should complete t

he inventory of political files within six months after its implementation begins, and turn the files into national archives, according to the Act.    [FULL  STORY]