00:00So Peng Wan Ru was a pretty prominent activist in the women's rights movement at the time
00:05of her death, and her murder also sparked more interest in this movement and concerns about
00:10violence against women.
00:11Could you tell us more about the reaction to her murder at the time within the DPP and
00:16also with the public?
00:18Okay.
00:19Back then, Peng Wan Ru was the first director of women's development of DPP, Democratic
00:25Progressive Party.
00:26And before she worked at DPP, she also worked for several permanent feminist organizations
00:32in Taiwan.
00:33She entered and she joined DPP to work for DPP because she wanted to bring the feminist movement
00:39into politics.
00:41By the time she was murdered, back then she was putting lots of energy in promoting gender
00:47quota of one-fourth inside DPP.
00:52And until the day she was murdered, she still tried to convince all our representatives and
01:01also all the political actors inside our party.
01:06She left the hotel very late, like maybe 10 o'clock in the morning or even later.
01:13So, and she entered this taxi and then she was murdered that night.
01:18And the next day, December 1st, 1995, 1996, that was the National Congress of DPP.
01:26And that was supposed to be the day that all our party representatives to vote for this proposal.
01:33But they waited on site for Peng Wan Ru until maybe like 10 o'clock, but she was not there.
01:41And they have been searching for, I think, two days.
01:43And at the end, her body was found in a suburb area of Kaohsiung County back then.
01:49And that was, and she was very, she was murdered and she was raped and she was like stabbed like maybe more than 30 times.
01:58So that was a shock, totally shock for Taiwanese society.
02:01Could you tell me more about the legal changes that happened after Peng Wan Ru's murder and also the societal changes?
02:08I think December 21st, the same year, there was a huge march, huge demonstration organizing a lot of people.
02:15All the political, political actors in different parties and all the feminist activists.
02:23And that was a huge demonstration in Taipei.
02:26So afterwards, Taiwanese parliament, we passed some several very milestone bills for women's protection, like code, I think,
02:37how do we call that?
02:39Code for prevention for domestic violence and also code for prevention of sexual assaults.
02:47Peng Wan Ru was murdered 29 years ago.
02:50Of course, we had some improvement in social awareness of victims of domestic violence and also victims of sexual assault.
02:59You can see the Me Too movement back in 2023 in Taiwan.
03:03After Peng Wan Ru's death, I think people tend to, people got to understand that sexual assault was really, really an issue in Taiwan.
03:12And our government started to put some resources and pass some legislation to implement this system to protect our victims.
03:20The policemen, our prosecutors and social workers, the people, the professionals who receive victims on the front line,
03:27they have more training to deal with the trauma of victims and also in the way they communicate with the victims.
03:35I think it's something very important.
03:36Now our system is much friendly compared to the one we had in 30 years ago.
03:42So that's, but we still have a style of improvement to do, but still this, we need to give the government credit for that.
03:49So that's nice
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