The Ministry of Education today released a new Web page providing supplementary educational materials on aspects of the 228 Incident and the White Terror not included in the school curriculum.
The new resource hub focuses on human rights and transitional justice, providing videos, guided readings, personal stories from victims and links to various museums and related literature for further learning.
The Web page was designed to use accessible digital resources to fill gaps in the current history curricula, the ministry said.
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The “108 curriculum,” implemented in high schools in 2019, does teach transitional justice, although older curricula lack teaching materials on the subject, it said.
The Web page teaches students about the 228 Incident of 1947, a series of violent crackdowns on protesters in the weeks and months following the brutal beating of a tobacco vendor in Taipei by government agents on Feb. 27, 1947.
The incident led to the White Terror era, a period of political persecution that began when former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) declared martial law in 1949, which lasted until 1987.
The front page features a video narrated by Lan Shi-bo (藍士博), executive director of the Memorial Foundation of 228, explaining what caused the incident, the political and social consequences and how it triggered the start of the White Terror period.
New topics would be added monthly that focus on important historical events or figures in Taiwan, it said.
Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao (鄭英耀) recently visited the National Human Rights Museum’s Jingmei White Terror Memorial Park in New Taipei City and shared his experience touring the former military detention center and hearing from those affected.
History does not only live in textbooks, but in the memories of those who survived it, he said.
The museum was the site of military trials where political prisoners were detained, prosecuted, tried and imprisoned.
Only when people understand their own history can they truly appreciate the present day and Taiwan’s hard-won democracy and freedom, he added.
The Web page can be accessed at www.hre.pro.edu.tw/bukeliaoma.
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