"For older civilians, the armed forces are tainted by memories of #MartialLaw, when #Taiwan was ruled as a brutal military dictatorship between 1949 and 1987. Between 3,000 and 4,000 actual or perceived critics of the military government were executed during the decades known as the #WhiteTerror. Some 140,000 were imprisoned."

‘Ukrainian strategy has become a model’: Taiwanese beef up military to face #China threat | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat

[SUBTITLED PODCAST] THE 228 INCIDENT

The 228 incident, also known as the 28 February Massacre, was an event that triggered an anti-government uprising in Taiwan. The government responded with a brutal crackdown, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths and a period of repression known as the 'White Terror'.

Podcast: https://odysee.com/@fralibou:1/228incident:f

#taiwan #history #228massacre #whiteterror #learningfrench #education #language #廣大興 #法文 #學法文 #學法語 #學習

The #FBI this week arrested a former bureau supervisor in connection with the Jan. 6 riot who they said called for killing officers protecting the #Capitol that day.

#j6 #whiteterror #insurrection
#hangemhigh

@hkdc_us RT by @students4hk: #HongKongers in #Leeds today held a silent protest for the #HK47, wearing white masks to symbolize the #WhiteTerror of the #NSL. Many shed tears thinking of their imprisoned brothers & sisters in HK. Passers-by expressed solidarity. 1 of 20+ HK47 protests worldwide this weekend. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1647345003939725312#m

#HongKongers in #Leeds today held a silent protest for the #HK47, wearing white masks to symbolize the #WhiteTerror of the #NSL. Many shed tears thinking of their imprisoned brothers & sisters in HK. Passers-by expressed solidarity. 1 of 20+ HK47 protests worldwide this weekend. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1647345003939725312#m

Today in Labor History February 28, 1947: The Kuomintang government in Taiwan put down an anti-government uprising known as the February 28 Incident. They killed 28,000 civilians. And in the White Terror that followed, the government killed, imprisoned or disappeared 30,000 more. These events helped spark the Taiwanese independence movement.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #kuomintang #taiwan #uprising #Formosa #massacre #civilian #slaughter #WhiteTerror #independence #chiang

Probably not relevant to my network here, but I was very lucky to be able to watch, in Vienna, a new (& excellent!) Taiwanese film on women thought prisoners during the #WhiteTerror authoritarian era (1950s).

Untold Herstory 流麻溝15號https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/10/28/2003787856

Important lessons for today's times.

#Taiwan #UntoldHerstory #Movie #湠臺灣電影 #thuànnTAIWAN #台灣 #綠島 #白色恐怖 #流麻溝15號 #奧地利台協會 #Vienna

More worryingly, the #KMT has reacted to the defeat at the polls by resorting to ridiculous publicity stunt, blaming the #DPP of setting up an #authoritarian rule in #Taiwan.
Needless to say this is utter bollocks and shameless nonsense coming from the very KMT that has murdered so many Taiwanese in the era of #WhiteTerror und its one-party rule.
Very disappointing to read that the #TPP has started to utter similar nonsense.
#democracy needs open discussions, but also acceptance of defeat.

Pretty impertinent of #KMT legislator #AlexFai to ask «When did #Taiwan become a police state?» because the Legislative Yuan has been outfitted with CCTV cams.

First of all, this is only an update of existing equipment that had been installed back in 2014 - yes, under KMT rule.
Secondly, Taiwan ended being a police state under KMT rule in about 1987.

So better shut the fuck up, Alex Fai and go get educated on the era of #whiteterror.
KMT = kill many Taiwanese.

https://taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/04/24/2003756262

[台灣民主基金會推文] @TFDemocracy@twitter.com：「 RT @Taiwan_Today@twitter.com: Green Island #HumanRights Art Festival promotes international cultural, creative exchanges https://www.taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=18&post=177692&unitname=Politics-Top-News&postname=Green-Island-Human-Rights-Art-Festival-promotes-international-cultural%2C-creative-exchanges\ #Taiwan #WhiteTerror @CulturalTaiwan@twitter.com @CultureTaiwanUK@twitter.com @TFDemocracy@twitter.com 」

Despite the attempts of the #KMT to put a lid on the topic, the crackdown that followed the #228incident has left deep divisions within #Taiwan's society, notably between people who lived on Taiwan under Japanese rule and new arrivals due to the Chinese civil war. If you're not familiar with this, go browse for #waishengren. And for #WhiteTerror, while you're at it. Or better yet: Read George Kerr's #FormosaBetrayed or Peng Ming-min's «A Taste of Freedom». #228memorial

On this particular day, my thoughts go out to all those who perished or suffered at the hands of the #KMT's authoritarian rule in #Taiwan and the crackdown after the #228incident known as #whiteterror. This is a crucial day for #civicrights and #humanrights in #FarEast, really. #neveragain