Family members of 228 Incident victims are angry over the omission of the word “national” in a proposed amendment to the Act for Handling and Compensation for the 228 Incident (二二八事件賠償及處理條例) governing the 228 Memorial Hall, the 228 Incident Memorial Foundation said yesterday.
The 228 Incident refers to a massacre that took place in 1947 when Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) troops suppressed a Taiwanese uprising, leaving tens of thousands dead, missing or imprisoned.
Foundation executive director Yang Cheng-long (楊振隆) said a “downgraded law” would justify President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) reducing the memorial hall to a “local” entity, not a national one.
Foundation chairman Chen Chin-huang (陳錦煌) said he suspected Cabinet Secretary-General Hsueh Hsiang-chuan (薛香川) deleted the word “national” from the hall’s name at Ma’s request.
The term “228 National Memorial Hall” was used in the draft amendment during a Cabinet meeting on Feb. 26 and a Ministry of the Interior meeting on Mar. 17, but “national” was not in the version the Cabinet sent to the legislature on Apr. 16, the foundation said.
Chen said a “national” memorial hall would indicate the government recognized the significance of the event, but the deletion of the word made people wonder if the government wanted to disregard the 228 Incident’s significance.
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