00:00Calls for victims of Taiwan's authoritarian past to be remembered properly.
00:12Civil rights groups and ruling party lawmakers take aim at Taiwan's main opposition parties,
00:18who, they say, recently removed a public memorial day on May 19th.
00:23Marking the beginning of the white terror period,
00:26four decades from 1949 when the nationalist government targeted those opposing their power,
00:32killing thousands of people and imprisoning more than 100,000.
00:36For many victims of government oppression, justice has still not been delivered.
00:45Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party or DPP government has been pursuing what's known as transitional justice.
00:51Exonerating past political prisoners, redistributing ill-gotten gains,
00:54and giving millions of US dollars in compensation.
00:56And in 2024, creating a new day to commemorate the victims of the period.
00:59But this day, White Terror Memorial Day,
01:01is not the only one who has ever seen in the past.
01:03It is not the only one who has ever seen in the past.
01:05It is not the only one who has ever seen in the past.
01:06It is not the only one who has ever seen in the past.
01:08It is not the only one who has ever seen in the past.
01:10For many victims of government oppression,
01:12and in 2024, creating a new day to commemorate the victims of the period.
01:18But this day, White Terror Memorial Day,
01:21was not included in a recent public holiday and memorial day bill passed by this legislature,
01:26which, significantly, is in the hands of two main opposition parties,
01:30the Kuomintang or KMT, and the Taiwan People's Party.
01:34It is the latest issue to ignite deep partisan politics in the country.
01:39The KMT, the party descended from the nationalist government behind the White Terror,
01:43says it is upholding the memory of that period,
01:46and that when they were in office,
01:48they established a public holiday to mark a government crackdown,
01:51acknowledging the past.
01:53This shows the nationality of the past's history.
01:58In this discussion,
01:59the nationality of the Chinese Communist Party
02:01left its own value,
02:02and left its own value.
02:04The nationality of the Chinese Communist Party
02:06is very bad.
02:08The ruling party rejects these claims,
02:10and has been criticising the KMT-led public holiday bill.
02:14...
02:15...
02:16on the ballot, against the law, or against the law, and even in the last minute, we saw
02:22the修正 movement on the ballot.
02:24And even in the committee, we discussed the, including I mentioned,婚姻平權紀念
02:30日,白色恐怖紀念日, and the United States of 1996, have not been put in the
02:39final version of the ballot.
02:41I also think it is a very regret.
02:44blood between the two major political parties has reached new heights since the dpp lost to the
02:49legislature and one of the many things they fundamentally disagree on is how to face up
02:54to the country's violent past for the second half of it there are more controversy about at the same
03:03time the country the country began to develop quite swiftly but on the other hand there was
03:12still continuing oppression and that is a quite mixed thing and so it has it complicates people's
03:21narratives people's collective memories taiwan will mark white terror memorial day in just a few days
03:28perhaps for the last time as an official commemoration the country is still reckoning with one of the
03:34darkest chapters in its history and now as political divisions deepen the question of how to remember
03:41that history has become a renewed source of contention andy schwer and rick loud for taiwan plus
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