New Probe Launched into 2008 Death of Air Force Sergeant

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The government watchdog, the Control Yuan, is opening a new probe into the 2008 death of Air Force Sergeant Tsai Hsueh-liang during a target practice session. It says new evidence seems to contradict the official explanation of suicide by assault rifle.

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00:00The question of just how Air Force Sergeant Cai Xue Liang died is one that's haunted Taiwan

00:05for more than 17 years.

00:07Prosecutors ruled it a suicide by assault rifle, but Cai's mother believes her son was murdered

00:13during target practice with a shot to the head.

00:15Now the government watchdog, the Control Yuan, says there's a hole in the official explanation.

00:21Control Yuan member Cai Chongyi says that as far back as 2019, forensics and ballistics

00:26testing showed Cai's gunshot wound wasn't consistent with a shot from a T-65 rifle the

00:32weapon prosecutors say he used to end his life.

00:35The Control Yuan is opening a new investigation.

00:38It aims to find out whether there was judicial or prosecutorial negligence, and whether laws

00:43about evidence were violated.

00:46Cai's mother says she suspects a years-long cover-up.

00:56The Defense Ministry says it will do what the Control Yuan asks.

01:17The Control Yuan hopes it can now settle any lingering doubts about what happened to Sergeant

01:21Cai Shui Liang for good, Devin Tsai and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.

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