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How can we understand the challenges and possibilities facing Taiwan’s quest for transitional justice through the lens of constitutionalism and political contestation?
Chen Wen-hsi was the first casualty of the 228 Massacre. He was also an unemployed loafer and the brother of a notorious crime boss. Was he a victim or a villain?
Former grand justice Hsu Yu-hsiu writes about the lockstep political development of Taiwan’s independent press and the tangwai movement, and how the public found courage to speak their conscience.
Writer Chen Tsui-lien says the KMT’s party-state education system was an efficient brainwashing apparatus. But when the cracks started to appear, the entire system came crashing down.
Victims’ families in Keelung and Badu recount the horrors they witnessed during the 228 massacre.
Seven decades after the 228 Massacre, survivors and relatives in Taipei City and Taipei County recount their experience and anguish.
