Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-05-08

The transitional justice committee is expected to start operations at the end of the

Cabinet spokesperson Hsu Kuo-yung appears in this CNA photo.

month. That’s the word from Cabinet spokesperson Hsu Kuo-yung on Tuesday. The committee will be tasked with addressing Taiwan’s history of political repression during the martial law period from 1949 to 1987.

The Legislature has approved nominations to the committee. They include former legislator and Control Yuan member Huang Huang-hsiung as the committee’s chair, and Mainland Affairs Council deputy minister Chang Tien-chin as vice chair.

The nominations received nearly unanimous support from Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers, who hold 68 of the 113 seats in the Legislature. The main opposition Kuomintang and the smaller People First Party abstained from the vote.  [FULL  STORY]