Taipei Times
Date: Sep 16, 2015
By: Chen Hui-ping and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said that, if elected in January’s presidential election, she would issue an official apology to the Aborigines on behalf of the government.

She added that she would also push forward reforms of Aboriginal policies on the basis of “equality, dignity and autonomy.”

Tsai, who is one-quarter Payuan on her grandmother’s side, criticized the government for having “failed to take into account the plight of urban Aborigines,” quoting the lyrics of Aboriginal singer Panai’s song Wandering as a commentary on Aboriginal policies.

“I bid my farewells to my home by the mountain, holding back the tears,” she said.     [FULL  STORY]