00:02This is the site of a high-profile, unsolved triple murder in Taiwan, and it's now being
00:09memorialized as a place of transitional justice. President Lai Qingde was at the placard unveiling
00:15ceremony. On February 28, 1980, an unknown number of assailants broke into democracy activist
00:22Ling Yi Xiong's house while he was in jail and stabbed his mother and six-year-old twin
00:28daughters to death. His oldest daughter was severely injured but survived.
00:33The case remains unsolved to this day, despite Ling's house being under heavy police surveillance
00:39at the time. It's widely believed that the murders were a means for Taiwan's then-authoritarian
00:45government to intimidate other pro-democracy activists.
00:48Ling's home is now the Gikong Presbyterian Church. The church applied to become a site
00:54of transitional justice to commemorate the murders. The culture ministry approved the
00:58church's application, making it the first ever publicly initiated project to be approved
01:04under transitional justice site designation laws. The church originally wanted to be a site to
01:21remember injustice, but the law governing that designation is still in legislative limbo.
01:36As Taiwan grapples with its authoritarian past, this site stands as both a memorial and a reminder
01:43of the work still left unfinished. Leon Lian and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.
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