00:01Honoring the countless victims of Taiwan's 228 incident,
00:05President Lai Qingze places flowers at a memorial in Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung
00:09for those that died 79 years ago in a government crackdown led by the Chinese nationalist authorities
00:15beginning on February 28, 1947.
00:19Much of the resistance ended in bloodshed, which has never been punished.
00:23Lai says the government is trying to make progress on getting justice for the victims and their families.
00:28Earlier this month, the National Security Bureau declassified tens of thousands of political archives
00:34from the ensuing martial law period.
00:36But Lai says it still doesn't tell the full story.
00:39This is the most important part of the government.
00:44But I always want to talk to everyone.
00:48It's a very important thing.
00:50In the case of the actual evidence of the state Durban Foundation,
00:55the government and the national history of the city of Rangani's 17 years ago,
01:02the country and the health of the city of Rangani's 17 years ago,
01:10the US was not a matter of spending timePor�� with a huge amount of money with murder.
01:11The government and the U.S. have ended up spending time with murder.
01:13We can have a report on that.
01:16We've seen less time of the national history of the city of Rangani's 17 years ago,
01:18the nation of the city of Rangani's 17 years ago in the city of Rangani's 17 years ago.
01:19We have been presentation and tested for the national history of the museum.
01:20the victims say justice can only come by ensuring that no abuse of authority happens again
01:25and that those in power at the time are not honored.
02:12An estimated 20,000 people died in the months following the 228 incident and it was a precursor
02:18to over three decades of violent martial law when thousands more were executed by the
02:23authoritarian state.
02:25Many political victims and prisoner stories were unable to be told until the late 1980s.
02:30Now nearly eight decades since the 228 incident, February 28th remains a day that forever changed
02:37the lives of so many families' loved ones.
02:40And today, they continue to share their stories, using their voices every year to pass on the
02:45lessons of that history.
02:46Patrick Chen and Tiffany Wong in Kaohsiung for Taiwan Plus.
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