tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935898415808175412024-03-14T11:37:35.664+08:00The Participant ObserverSoaking and Poking - between inside and outside.Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-54925590470620314372016-01-01T00:00:00.000+08:002018-05-20T08:15:33.637+08:00Hello, it's been a while<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First day of 2016, fifteen days before voting day. The past
few months flew by in a flash, and so many things has happened. It’s been
eighteen months since I dived in headfirst, from the comfort of the ivory
tower, into the trenches of real life politics. Like the previous two years,
this year has also been one of the most eventful, yet most trying, years of my
life. As a rookie, I come to realize, surviving in politics not only requires tremendous
interpersonal skills, as one not only has to deal with the political opposition
and garner the needed support, one also has to acquire, even more hurriedly,
the adeptness to deal with those who are on one’s own team. Politics, after all,
is exactly what Harold Lasswell defined it as, “Who gets what, when and how”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the readers of the Participant Observer might already have
noticed, the blog entries this year slowed down tremendously, as I became
deeply entrenched in the daily grind of a political campaign. I still hold my director of research position at my think tank; however, there were little time to conduct my own research. I still pay a lot of attention to social movements in Taiwan, which frequency has also dwindled greatly in the past year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, while there are so much to report on and write
about on the issues driving the social movement in Taiwan, much of what I deal
with on my current post, has to be kept in private. I am constantly reminded of
what my mentor, professor and former boss told me, that “in diplomacy, there
are many things you’ll just to take it to your grave”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being in politics requires psychological strength and physical
endurance. Politics is 24-7, and the response time when crisis arise often has
to be within an hour. Once one is involved in it, it permeates almost all
aspects of one’s life. In order to be successful in politics, one not only has
to learn it, live it; one also has to love it. I currently have a love-hate
relationship with politics. <span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My decision to join Dr. Tsai Ing-wen’s foreign affairs team stemmed
from the desire to obtain some real life political experience. As academics, we
are often caught up in data gathering, research and the efforts to derive some
sort of generalizable theory on political occurrences. I thought, the practice
of politics ultimately helps me acquire the experience I would not have had if
I reside myself in academia and assist me in providing even more accurate and more
comprehensive analyses in the future. Furthermore, I recognize not everyone can
be an eternal protester or activist. There is the need for one to enter the
system and change from within. I was offered the precious opportunity by Dr.
Tsai, and I obliged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recounting what happened in the past year, the most
memorable event would have to be Dr. Tsai’s trip to the United States. I cannot
begin to recount the amount of preparation, communication and efforts behind
closed door for this particular trip to come to fruition – many <span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">details, of course, cannot be publicized. </span>It
was also physically taxing on everyone involved. The craziest stretch was when
we covered four cities in 14 hours (Washington DC, New York City, Houston and
San Francisco). I discovered<span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> on this
trip,</span> that a person, when running on adrenaline, can go without sleep
for a long time. <span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">I also learn to
appreciate the hard work journalists put in to able to cover and present the
news in a timely manner for the readers and viewers. Hat tips to all the
hardworking reporters who went on the trip with us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another challenging aspect of my work involved in drafting
English speeches for Dr. Tsai. As a lawyer, professor and a perfectionist, Dr.
Tsai reads over every draft very closely, diligently and provides modification
and corrections. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing speeches for
her also forced me to learn about fields that are otherwise not my field of
expertise, from energy, technology, business, immigration, public welfare to agriculture.
I would say, this is one of the most fruitful aspect of the job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More excitingly, my involvement with the DPP allowed me to
become a member of the human rights committee and the chairperson of the women’s
rights working group for Liberal International, the international organization where
the Democratic Progressive Party is a member. Working on promoting aspects of
human rights in the international arena is something I enjoy tremendously and
am very proud of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past year, I met
so many interesting individuals, from government officials and former
government officials from all over the world, to members of influential think
tanks, academics, members of different political parties and activists from
around the world. With these connections, I see remarkable potential for Taiwan
to cooperate with countries, NGOs and political parties on assisting and
promoting Taiwan’s shared interests and values. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the past year, at the International Affairs Department of
the DPP, we began constituting frameworks emphasizing city-to-city, youth, environmental,
digital diplomacy, along with a refreshed version of a southbound policy, humanitarian
assistance and global NGO cooperation – particle issues where Taiwan already
possessed remarkable knowledge, experience and has previously been engaging the
world and providing substantive contribution to. Hopefully, information we
garnered through the many meetings with local government representatives,
academics and members of the business and technological community, can be
useful for the future administration of Taiwan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are at the last stretch of the presidential campaign, and
we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I very much look
forward to the change, in both the presidency and hopefully, in the
legislature. If the DPP captures majority in the Legislative Yuan, it will be a
historic occasion, as the opposition has never been able to capture majority in
Taiwan’s democratic political history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the
Taiwan Indicators Survey Research, as of December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2015, 40.1%
of the potential voters supported DPP’s Dr. Tsai and Dr. Chen. 17.5% of the
potential voters surveyed support KMT’s Eric Chu and Jennifer Wang, and 16.8%
supported James Soong and Hsu Hsin-Ying. There are nail-biting battlefields for
the legislative election, where the DPP is working industriously to capture
seats (Seats in districts such as Hualien, Pingtung, Chiayi, and New Taipei
City). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we’ll just have to see. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lastly, I wish my
readers a Happy New Year and productive 2016. I look forward to a even better
year and of course, a better Taiwan.</span></span></div>
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Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-7861596655654110732015-06-26T22:54:00.002+08:002018-05-20T08:14:31.042+08:00Participant Observer Update<div class="MsoNormal">
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thinking about blogging again for quite a while now. So, instead of just
thinking about it, I thought the best way to go is to just shut up and start
writing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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since the Sunflower Movement. I observed an obvious fatigue among the social
movement activists after the Movement and the anti-Nuclear Power Plant No.4
protest. I must say, I felt tired and drained, too, after tracking social
movements in Taiwan for the past few years. Many students and young activists
told me they felt a sense of loss, as if something was missing, or the feeling
of losing direction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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activists were angry, because they thought April 10<sup>th</sup>, 2014 was not
the right time to exit the Legislative Yuan (LY). They thought they should
continue to occupy the Legislature until the LY dropped the Cross-Strait
Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) altogether. Some activists complained the
decision making process to exit the LY was too authoritarian. There were also complaints
about a selected number of movement “leaders” receiving more attention than
others and were utilizing their popularity to further their own cause. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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young professionals then split into many groups to advocate for the causes they
care most for (I plan to write about the splinter groups in a future article).
The activists called such move <a href="http://www.storm.mg/article/21986">“diverging advance and converging attack (<span lang="ZH-TW">分進合擊</span>)”</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Critics of the activists say the “diverging
advance and converging attack” strategy was merely an excuse for the activists’
own infighting and inability to collaborate with each other. To be fair, the
Sunflower Movement was never a unified group. It was an “umbrella” mechanism at
best. The Movement consisted of fifty-some different student groups, NGO and
civil society and social groups. Therefore, it is more fitting to describe one
of the aftermaths of the Sunflower Movement as an emergence of additional
social groups and then, political parties now known as the “Third Force”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though, compared to 2013 and the beginning
of 2014, the frequency of street protests has dwindled significantly, it does
not mean the cases I have been following became stagnant. Here are some
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Chang Pharmacy (張藥房), and the three other families, whose homes were torn down by the
Miaoli County government on July 18<sup>th</sup>, 2013, were due in the
Taichung Superior Court on June 25<sup>th</sup>, 2015 for their cases against
the Miaoli County government and for the returning of their land and rebuilding
of their homes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ms. Peng is now a regular at the monthly farmer's market on the National Chengchi University campus is Taipei. She has her own booth where she sells ginger candy, tofu dessert and jam. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷), the graduate student from National
Tsing Hua University who threw his shoe at Miaoli County Commissioner, Liu
Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) was found guilty by the Taichung branch of the Taiwan High Court on
June 25<sup>th</sup>, 2015. However, the court also decided that Chen did not
have to serve any sentence or be reprimanded in anyway. In the verdict, the
High Court also criticized the Miaoli County Commissioner for using harsh
measures to expropriate the Chang family’s home and land and acted callously
when he insisted to go to the Chang’s temporary home to “pay his respect” to
Mr. Chang, who was found drown in a ditch near his home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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trial for obstruction of justice for the April 24<sup>th</sup>, 2013 forced demolition
of homes in the Huaguang Community. On April 24<sup>th</sup>, 2015, two years
after the initial demolition, members of the Huaguang Community, the five
defendants and student supporters took to the streets again to plead with the government
to drop the charges and to assist with settlement and lives of the former Huaguang
Community residents. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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protested at the Taipei City Government for the Da-an district police
department blocking the road leading to the community a day before the scheduled
demolition. The fences erected by the Da-an police department around the
community also prevented other residents of Huaguang Community from going back
to their homes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Student activists for the preservation of Losheng Sanatorium discovered that the guardian of the Sanatorium had been renting
sections of the Sanatorium for filming. The guardian of the Sanatorium was
charging the film crew NT$10,000 per day to film on location. However, the film
crew did not preserve the structure of the Sanatorium and instead was spray
painting the walls of the Sanatorium and did not return the walls and structure
back to their original state. On June 17</span><sup style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, 2015, the residents of
Loshen Sanatorium and their supporters went to the Ministry of Welfare and
Health to protest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The advocates demanded 1) Consultation of the
Sanatorium residents, experts of historical artifacts and the Ministry of
Welfare and Health should be held before renting the structure; and 2) the
money earned from renting the location should be used for the preservation of
the Loshen Sanatoirum buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For information on Losheng Sanatorium: </span><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/06/afternoon-tea-at-losheng-sanatorium.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Afternoon Tea at Losheng</a><br />
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Miaoli and Wind Turbines (院裡反瘋車)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uncle Ching-jin at protest in Taipei</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">After a year and half of protesting and 7000 hours
of guarding the seashore, Infravest Wind Turbine Co. and the residents of
Yuanli reached a compromise. Last September, Infravest agreed to remove two of
the four wind turbines in Yuanli Township. The criminal cases against the
Yuanli residents were tried and most of the residents were found not guilty.
Except for Uncle Ching-jin (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">清金阿伯</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">). He was found
guilty of the crime of coercion and sentenced to ten days in prison for
blocking an Infravest Co. truck for mere nine seconds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncle Ching-jin at his farm<br />
Photo credit: 苑裡掀海風</td></tr>
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Yuanli Self-Help Group ran in last November’s local election,
and Zoe Chen (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">陳薈茗</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">), resident, activist and daughter of the
leader of the Yuanli Self-Help Group, is now the borough chief of the Fang-li
Borough; 2) residents of Yuanli and supportive youngsters started two
organizations to promote their agricultural products and community services.
The organization for the promotion of Yuanli’s agricultural product is named
“Seawind of Yuanli (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">苑裡掀海風</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)”, and the organization for community service
and the promotion of the township is called the “Yuanli Sealine Family (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">苑裡海線一家親</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)”. I bought their “Filial Rice” and dried raddish at the farmer’s
market. They were very good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">I wish I could say, from now on in Yuanli, everyone lived happily ever after, but that would be far from the truth. Last week, Infravest Wind Turbine Co. filed civil lawsuits against the student activists and asked for two million dollars compensation for property damage. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For information on what happened in Yuanli: <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2013/06/17/2003564971">Wind Turbine Troubles</a></span></div>
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of trees (松菸護樹)</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Farglory Co. workers<br />blocking tree protectors</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">After more than a year of protest and the election of Dr. Ko Wen-je as
mayor of Taipei. The Farglory Construction group is still struggling to finish building
the Taipei Dome. The Taipei City government launched a series of investigations
on the possible corruption, safety issues and problems with preservation of
historical artifacts on Farglory Construction Group. After many very public
back and forth critiques between Farglory Construction Group president Chao Teng-hsiung
(</span><span lang="ZH-TW">趙藤雄</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">) and Dr. Ko and meetings between their teams,
the story of Taipei Dome continues, and the trees are still there, for now. As
someone who was born in that neighborhood and lived there until my family
relocated to the United States, I am watching with interest and attention. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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out for)</b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DPP presidential election candidate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Tsai Ing-wen in Washington DC</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the following months, look out
periodically for the Participant Observer’s "Election Edition" as Taiwan moves toward its 2016 presidential and legislative elections, as well as the
continuation of my observation on social movements in Taiwan, among many
things.</span></div>
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“minor adjustment (課綱微調)” of textbooks proposed by the Ma Ying-jeou administration.
The issue is again making the news as students from more than two hundred high
schools came together to demand the Ministry of Education to abolish the
changes in their text books, which will be introduced in classrooms this coming
Fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the reflection article I wrote for the EATS' (European Association of Taiwan Studies) Newsletter on the Conference on "Social Movement in Taiwan since 2008" held at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) of University of London on June 25th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civil society is one of the vibrant features of Taiwan’s democracy. During Taiwan’s liberalization and democratization, social movements led by segments of civil society sprung over Taiwan’s political landscape. Since the election of President Ma Ying-jeou in 2008, Taiwan has experienced a resurgence of social movements, beginning with the Wild Strawberry Movement, where students and young protesters demand the government to respect the citizens’ right to expression and to assemble. The Wild Strawberry Movement became the first major student movement since the 1990s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 2012, under President Ma’s second term, Taiwan experienced an eruption of social activism. The rising discontent over the Ma administration’s public policies, such as land expropriation, the eviction and forced demolition of citizens homes to make way for science parks and glitzy shopping areas and hotels, lawsuits against elderly laid off workers, the continue construction of the nuclear power plant, treatment of soldiers, coupled with growing apprehension over increasing Chinese influence over many sectors in Taiwan, invoked a series of small, persistent, “guerrilla- style” protests, as well as large demonstrations attended by tens of thousands participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In June 2014, I had the pleasure and honour to be invited as a presenter and participant at the “Conference on Social Movement in Taiwan after 2008” sponsored by the Centre of Taiwan Studies in the School of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Spearheaded by Dr Dafydd Fell, the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS is a hub for all things Taiwan. From Taiwanese films, arts and music screening to historical and political lessons, I learned the Centre of Taiwan Studies offers interdisciplinary studies to those who have chosen make Taiwan as the focus of their studies. The “Conference on Social Movements in Taiwan after 2008” was the most comprehensive conference dedicated to social movements in Taiwan and the issues associated with the movements I’ve attended. Moreover, since the conference was organized prior to the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, an additional roundtable event was added for all the conference participants to speak to and interact with SOAS students interested in Taiwan’s largest social movement to date. Several social movement themes were presented at the conference. They are: (1) Environmentalism; (2) Humanism; (3) Energy; (4) Land; (5) the China Factor, and (6) Strategies and effectiveness of social movements in Taiwan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />National Sun Yat-sen University sociology professor and environmental activist, Professor Chiu Hua-mei focused her discussion on the evolution of environmental movement against industrial pollution in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan’s second largest city. Since Kaohsiung became an industrial city in Taiwan, many lauded its development of heavy industries and credited such development for the creation of jobs and prosperity. According to Dr Chiu, the City is divided into zones where various heavy industries, such as petrochemical and steel industries and power plants, made Kaohsiung their permanent home. What made Professor Chiu’s presentation exceedingly interesting was her elucidation on the different protest groups in Kaohsiung and the methods the groups use in protests. According to Chiu, the earlier protests in Kaohsiung were grassroots, mainly organized by local residents – farmers and fishermen – who were disgruntled by land grabbing and water pollution. The more massive protests against heavy industry pollution came in the 1980s but environmental activism suffered a down turn in the 1990s. Fascinatingly, Chiu informed the conference participants that it was as late as 2007 that the first professional environmental organization was founded. There on after, Kaohsiung’s environmental activism became more specialized and vigorous. Moreover, observers began to see the participation of urban residents and members of the middle class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the middle class and urban citizens as additional participants, environmental activism in Taiwan surged. In the presentation under the title, “The Revival of the Green Party in Taiwan”, Professor Dafydd Fell’s discussion was a wholesome complementary to the surge of environmentalism through Taiwan. Fell contended that the Green Party performed better than any time in the Party’s history in the 2012 election. With the increase of constituents becoming more aware of environmental and energy issues, the Green Party in Taiwan, according to Fell, has found its policy niche to become and remain politically relevant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />One of the relevant environmental issue explicated by National Taiwan University’s Ming-sho Ho, was the protest against Naphtha Cracker Plants in Taiwan. According to Ho, this particular movement has been a persistent and consistent trend in Taiwan’s environmentalism. Ho traced the protests against Naphtha Cracker from 1987 to 2011 and concluded that due to increased public awareness of the tremendous pollution brought on by the petrochemical industry, new petrochemical projects are also increasingly difficult to establish. Environmental movements, according to Ho, are also becoming increasing less partisan. Most importantly, with the professionalization of environmental NGOs, mobilization is now more effective, and therefore, the protests are now more successful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Environmental activists in Taiwan often share the same protest grounds as the energy policy advocates. For example, the anti-nuclear energy activists also strongly advocated against the continuation of dumping nuclear waste on Orchid Island. Dr Simona Grano of the University of Zurich explicated the resurgence of the anti-nuclear protest since 2011. Grano personally participated in many environmental protests while conducting fieldwork in Taiwan. Grano also observed a surge of large-scaled anti-nuclear protest the past few years. The anti-nuclear protest drew tens of thousands participants to the streets. The protests were a family affair with parents bringing their young children and sometimes performing drills in case of a nuclear melt down. Anti-nuclear energy protesters even occupied Taipei Main Station and Zhongxiao West Road in the most recent protest in April.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Just as the citizens felt the nuclear energy issue is closely related to the welfare of one’s family, land grabbing and the demolition of homes is another issue that became very close to the minds and hearts of Taiwanese in recent years. Home demolition and land grabbing in places such as Dapu Borough of Miaoli County and the Huaguang Community in Taipei accompanied by images of excavators moving into farm land where rice was two weeks away from harvest and the borough residents properties scattered in ditches sparked the consistent and persistent “guerrilla type” protests through 2013 with the young protesters eventually occupying the Minister of Interior for forty eight hours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I was responsible for presenting social movements sparked by land issues. I followed the administration’s attempt to expropriate citizens’ land for the past three years. What cultivated my interest was, when I went to Taiwan to conduct the last round of my dissertation research, I saw a video on television of an excavator mowing down a rice farm in a place named Dapu in Miaoli County. I then began researching the issues relating to Dapu and realized the Miaoli County government had been expropriating county residents’ land in order to make way for an extension of a science park, as well as an extra highway and a crematorium. The endeavor led to the demolition of several homes in Miaoli County and the victims of forced demolition committing suicide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />My presentation consisted of more than fifty photographs I took while observing the demolition and protests. This was the first time I used a tremendous amount of photographs for an academic presentation, and I received more feedback from the audience than some of my other panel discussions. My presentation at SOAS demonstrated the importance of field work and the extent to which images help deliver messages to the audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most important part of the SOAS conference was the presentation and discussion of the strategies and the effectiveness of social movements in Taiwan, as well as the extent to which Taiwanese have chosen to deal with “the big elephant in the room”, as so eloquently stated by Professor Hsu Szu-chien of Academia Sinica. As many social movements as the panelists discussed at the conference, the most significant matter was, to what extent is the protest effective? What should be considered as a successful movement? What is not? This particular topic was hotly discussed at SOAS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />According to presenter J. Michael Cole, the success of a social movement should not be measured only by the number of participants at a protest. Cole argued, movements such as protest against demolition in Dapu Borough, the protest against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement led by the Black Island Nation Youth Alliance and the Alliance against Media Monster, are successful because the movement organizers made sure the government cannot ignore them and their respective issues are kept alive. Large protests such as the ones sponsored by Citizen 1985 to ensure proper treatment of military recruit, after an army corporal was tortured to death, were too predictable and organized for the government to be intimidated, though the Citizen 1985 demonstrations often drew tens of thousands of participant. Social movements that are too predictable and organized combined with the lack of effort to follow-up with the responsible government agencies and politicians have failed to cultivate the changes of law and to keep the issue alive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b>Conclusion</b><br /> <br />The SOAS conference not only provided a platform for vigorous academic discussion on the surge of social movements in Taiwan after 2008, it was also a forum for academics, and activists to discuss not only research but to also share participation experiences in different movements. This was what I’ve never experienced in other conferences on Taiwan. The interdisciplinary and cross-professional nature of the conference should be encouraged, as I have learned tremendously from other conference participants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Lastly, the SOAS conference also brought to the forefront an issue that cannot be ignored – the influence of China, as the China factor was one of the reasons for the student occupation of the Legislative Yuan and the Sunflower Movement. Moreover, the movement against media monopoly, the demolition of Mainlander communities in Taipei, land expropriation in Miaoli County and elsewhere in Taiwan, all in the name of progress, development and investment, all bear the influence of China.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I find the roundtable on the Sunflower Movement that was open to all students extremely important, as I was often asked why the young protesters in Taiwan decided to all of a sudden adopt the illegal mean of occupying the Legislative Yuan. The roundtable discussion on the Sunflower Movement allowed the discussants to explain to a broad audience on the causes, strategies and effectiveness of the Sunflower Movement. It was imperative to explain that the Sunflower Movement did not come out of the blue. It was a manifestation of the discontent and grievances toward the Ma administration after more than a year of non- responsiveness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan initiates yet another extraordinary session this week, the issue of Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement and the oversight bill lingers and are waiting to be resolved. Young activists are preparing for more demonstrations (Citizen 1985 is gearing up for a protest this weekend on the one year anniversary of their massive, 250,000-participant protest last year) for as long as the government remains nonresponsive to the demand of the citizens. Conference as the Conference on Social Movement in Taiwan is extremely helpful for academics and activists to not only share their research but also learn from each other’s field of expertise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-56920026468065232362014-05-14T22:14:00.001+08:002014-05-14T22:15:44.387+08:00Is Academic Freedom Under Assault?<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My <a href="http://thinking-taiwan.com/2014/is-academic-freedom-under-assault/">article</a> published by the Thinking Taiwan English Platform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;">It’s been a tough week for social scientists in Taiwan. It began with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Su Ching-chuang’s (蘇清泉) grilling of Environmental Protection Administration Minister Wei Kuo-yen (魏國彥), who was scheduled to answer questions on nuclear waste disposal, about what social scientists and the departments of sociology at universities do exactly. This was followed by Su’s </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hg7Hgu6RZrA" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tirade</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;">accusing faculty and students at public universities of “causing chaos on the streets” and his call for “education budget redistribution.” Then KMT Legislator Lu Hsueh-chang (呂學樟) stepped in and led an investigation team, organized by the Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee (司法及法制委員會), into Academia Sinica, the nation’s top research institution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of Lu’s visit was ostensibly to inspect the conditions of Academia Sinica’s staffing and performance enhancement after the institution’s restructuring (組織改造後員額編制及業務績效提升情形). According to Lu, Academia Sinica had a budget of more than NT$5 billion (US$165.8 million) for the past five years and experienced a 2% staffing increase during the same period. Given this, he said, the public has the right to examine the institution’s progress and quality of its research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lu’s visit to Academia Sinica would not have sparked such outrage among academics had it not happened at such sensitive time, or if he had not made such a splash of his views on certain academics and what research institutions ought to be doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Questioned by the press, Lu said that members of Academia Sinica had behaved in an <a href="http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/politics/20140512/396022" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">irrational and impolite manner</a> when they greeted President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last month with Sunflowers, banners, and slogans as ma arrived at the institution to deliver a keynote speech at a conference on the sovereignty disputes over the Diaoyutai Islands. Ma’s visit came a week after the end of the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan in protest against the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement (CSSTA) with China, and less than less than a month after an estimated half-a-million people took to the streets to express their support for the Sunflowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several hundred researchers, staff, and students from Academia Sinica, including Institute of Sociology research fellow Chiu Hei-yuan (瞿海源) and associate research fellow Wu Rwei-ren (吳叡人) of the Institute of Taiwan History, greeted President Ma outside the venue where he was to deliver his speech with banners that said, “Taiwan’s future is for the people to decide (台灣未來,人民做主),” or “Legislative Oversight on Cross-Strait agreements! (兩岸協議,立法監督).” Some protesters also held sunflowers while they chanted “Restore Constitutionalism, Defend Democracy (重建憲政,捍衛民主)” at the president. Later on, associate research fellows Chen Yi-shen (陳儀深) and Shiu Wen-tang (許文堂) of the Institute of Modern History, along with Paul Jobin, an associate professor at the University of Paris Diderot, held protest posters in silence inside the conference room as President Ma addressed his audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such behavior from members of Academia Sinica, according to Legislator Lu, was <a href="http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/politics/20140512/396022" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">administratively unethical and inappropriate</a>. Lu further criticized the nation’s top research institution by arguing that Academia Sinica was subordinate to the Presidential Office, and that therefore the president was Academia Sinica’s boss. “Who would do such a thing when one’s boss visits?” Lu asked. Employees at Academia Sinica are the president’s staff and should naturally make recommendations to the president, he said. However, yelling at the president is “incongruous.” Lu suggested that Academia Sinica reflect on the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he wasn’t done. Lu then opined that while institutes of natural sciences and engineering were conducting “vigorous, outstanding research,” academic work by the Institute of Political Science and Institutum Iurisprudentiae had gone <a href="http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201405125008-1.aspx" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">astray</a>. Researchers should not be so critical or so vocal in their opposition to government policies, he said, as employees at Academia Sinica are also public servants. Taking part in protests, he added, violates the <a href="http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201405125008-1.aspx" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Civil Service Administrative Neutrality Act</a> (公務人員行政中立法). Lu recommended that the institutes that “went astray” be merged and “reconstituted.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lu’s visit and comments sparked outrage among members of Academia Sinica and academics at other institutions of high learning. Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), an associate research fellow at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae and a key leader during the Sunflower Movement’s occupation, said that Lu was “utterly ignorant” and that even former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) had not had such authoritarian tendencies. In an interview with the Chinese-language Storm Media, Michael Hsiao (蕭新煌), the director of Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology, sounded equally <a href="http://www.stormmediagroup.com/opencms/news/detail/a0f6ffc7-d9b0-11e3-9580-ef2804cba5a1/?uuid=a0f6ffc7-d9b0-11e3-9580-ef2804cba5a1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">unimpressed</a> with Lu. Echoing Huang, Hsiao called Lu ignorant and added that as a legislator, Lu should represent the people and not act as a mindless follower of his party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weighing in, Modern History associate research fellow Chen Yi-shen (陳儀深) pointed out that the purpose of Academia Sinica as the “highest national research institution of the Republic of China” was to serve as the country’s top research entity. Consequently, academic freedom should be at the heart of Academia Sinica, he said, adding that caring for and paying attention to society were naturally part of an academic’s work and research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worryingly, Lu’s outburst appears to be just one in a series of attempts by the administration and its allies in the KMT to keep academia in line. In 2012, KMT Legislator Alex Tsai (蔡正元) threatened to slash the budget of the Institutum Iurisprudentiae in half if the institute’s research fellows continued to speak against the Want Want China Times Group’s attempt to purchase China Network System (CNS), which would have affected a quarter of households nationwide. Many academics from Academia Sinica were vocal in their opposition to the deal, which they feared would create a media monopoly by a company that had vast business interests in China. Besides threatening to slash the budget of the law institute, Tsai argued that it was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V97Ku2wDr4A" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">none of the academic’s business </a>to protest against a commercial merger and that the academics were motivated by anti-government <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gp2-qu5o8A" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">media outlets</a> for political reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in 2010, the Ministry of Education had issued a <a href="http://www.nownews.com/n/2010/11/03/589389" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; max-height: 10000px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">notice</a> to National Taiwan University (NTU) requesting the university to “reflect and improve the contents of its PTT Gossip board.” The ministry claimed the university’s Internet discussion board was permeated by “all kinds of political articles” and added that it hoped the university could rid the Internet forum of “political party employees” and create a “clean environment” for its users. The ministry further requested NTU strongly regulate posts that strayed from “academic and teaching purposes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social science is a vast discipline. It consists of many fields, including psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, political science, and law. It studies society, its institutions, and how and why people behave as they do as individuals or as groups within society. In order to study these essential elements of society and research the variables that affect these elements, systematic, vigorous fieldwork is always required. Whether they conduct surveys, interviews, or engage in participatory observation, being physically close to the research subject is key to the ability of social scientists to carry out robust research. To urge political scientists or sociologists to only “stick to research and academia,” or to order them not to care about the impacts of a certain policy is impossible, if not downright offensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Come in, come in! Sit down and have some tea!” the cheerful voice calls out as I open the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">door to Mr. Huang’s first-floor office just outside Taipei. On any given day, various members of the community gather at the table for pu’er tea, snacks, fruit, and sometimes alcohol. On the day of our appointment, Mr. Huang, or “Ah-Chuan,” as everyone calls him, was sampling white wine with his friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah-Chuan is head of a ward, or “Li” (里). According Article 59 of the Local Government Act (地方制度法), “Villages/Wards shall each have a chief of village/ward, who, upon the instruction and under the supervision of the mayor of township/city, or chief administrator, shall handle village/ward affairs and carry out commissioned tasks”. In other words, the job description of the head of a ward, or “Li Zhang,” is generic, which leaves plenty of room for the elected to maneuver on the community services he provides. A Li Zhang is elected every four years with no term limit. Case in point: Ah-Chuan has been the Li Zhang of his ward since 1981.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVW0UFqpJaJ68VtqFCmmiR9NQmBL2q2sGh9OyIaplLLBHMwAOCxwy_4cUCzAkjkc3YDz7zZipXYC5ZkwmxAubZHpASFfQ2wD5VKdWl_fwa7DsRjc-XMXohN4YZRcYrU20DsfYWD_-OOA/s1600/IMG_3172.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVW0UFqpJaJ68VtqFCmmiR9NQmBL2q2sGh9OyIaplLLBHMwAOCxwy_4cUCzAkjkc3YDz7zZipXYC5ZkwmxAubZHpASFfQ2wD5VKdWl_fwa7DsRjc-XMXohN4YZRcYrU20DsfYWD_-OOA/s1600/IMG_3172.JPG" height="133" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I think of myself as part of the service industry, and I very much enjoy helping members of my community. I was born here, and my family is from here. I don’t get paid to do what I do. What I receive for my elected post is an operational fee of NT$45,000 per month, which I have to utilize wisely to pay office bills and other miscellaneous things.<br /><br />“Oh! See that activity center next to this office? I helped get that for the people here,” A-Chuan explains proudly.<br /><br />Li Zhangs like Ah-Chuan were a factor in Taiwan’s political fabric long before</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The Li Zhangs operate at what could be called the “super grassroots” level. Through his frequent interactions with the locals, Ah-Chuan is not only familiar with the members of the ward and their lifestyles, he has also established a sense of camaraderie with them. Throughout my visit with Ah-Chuan, I saw a constant flow of elderly residents who came to his office to use the blood pressure machine he had acquired for them. He always greeted them and asked about their health.<br /><br />Ah-Chuan’s office is a trove of political memorabilia, photographs with central government</span><br />
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officials, awards for service and philanthropy, and commemorative plaques of excellence. There are also urns filled with expensive tea — Huang collects tea for a hobby — and statues of deities like Guan Gong and Matsu. There are also several CCTV monitors mounted on the wall, which allow Huang to keep track of the comings and goings in the neighborhood, or, perhaps more importantly, to see when a guest is coming.<br /><br />As I entered Ah-Chuan’s office, I discovered that my cup of aged tea was already waiting for me at the table.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lunch consisted of a large bowl of the Huang family’s famous stewed pork and eggs, stir-fried cabbage and water spinach, stewed radish, fish, green onion and eggs, and two kinds of soup. The lunch guests were all members of the community and included the owner of a sound equipment company who often provides sound systems for political campaigns, a former head of the fire department in the district, a former KMT legislator, and an employee of the district government.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Eat more, eat more!” Ah-Chuan encouraged us as he dropped a stewed egg in my bowl. “These are just country dishes, but this is very Taiwanese! You won’t have them in America.”<br /><br />Two police officers also showed up and informed Ah-Chuan that they were investigating a noise complaint from a ward resident and thought it best to visit the Li Zhang first, as he might be able to shed light on the matter. The officers said the complainant claimed he’d heard loud noises in the middle of the night, possibly from a mentally challenged person.<br /><br />“There is no such person living in that lane,” Ah-Chuan said confidently as he waved his hand dismissively. “And I haven’t heard anything. You are more than welcome to investigate, but I know for a fact that no mentally ill person, or even a loud person, for that matter, lives in that lane.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ay! Do you really think that I have that much influence over people?” he exclaimed when I asked him about lobbying votes for a particular candidate and party. “If I tell you to vote for someone, would you really listen to me? Of course, not! We’re in a democracy, and people vote however they want! Who’s going to listen to me?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Do you really think that young people are going to listen to me?” he said, throwing his hands up in the air in resignation. Maybe he was being a little tongue-in-cheek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Foot soldiers like Ah-Chuan are almost invisible in Taiwan’s political scene, as they blend perfectly with the communities they live in. They are seldom in the news, yet despite Ah-Chuan’s claims to the contrary, the outcome of local elections is often determined by whether Li Zhangs like him favor a particular candidate over another. Unsurprisingly, almost every single candidate that Ah-Chuan has favored over the more than three decades he has served as Li Zhang has been elected.<br /><br />Ketty W. Chen is Director of Research Programs at the Association of Public Issues Studies (TAPIS) in Taipei.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was traveling between the States and Taiwan during the Sunflower Movement, and all the traveling didn't prevent me from being glued to the live feed from inside and outside of the Legislative Yuan during the time I was away. I had to take care of some family and work business in the U.S. before going to Taiwan to stay for the next couple of years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While in the U.S., I was invited to deliver two lectures on the social movements in Taiwan. The Sunflower Movement served as a great example to begin my lecture. I was also contacted by several international and US domestic media outlets (CNBC, Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, NPR) for interviews and for background information on the Sunflower Movement. What I realized again was the tremendous lack of knowledge about Taiwan outside of Taiwan. Moreover, the lack of accurate accounts of what exactly is happening in Taiwan is tremendous. Most who are reporting about Taiwan have very limited knowledge on who are the major movers and shakers, who are the active participants in particular events and what are the positions of major political parties and politicians.The mainstream media outlets in Taiwan is not helping with bridging this gap either. Therefore, due to this lack of knowledge and accurate information, it became exceedingly difficult for journalists, foreign academics and government officials to decipher between facts and propaganda. More importantly, w</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ith such information lag, current and former U.S. government officials, often derive at far fetched conclusions on happenings in Taiwan. The lack of accurate information also prevents foreign government officials, policy makers and journalists from developing good analysis on the implications and significance of important events in Taiwan, for example, the <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2014/04/04/debunking-the-myths-about-taiwans-sunflower-movement/">Sunflower Movement</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the weeks of student occupation of the Legislative Yuan, I've been asked on numerous occasions on the reasons behind such endeavor, and I explained that the occupation did not just happen on a whim. It was the result of accumulation of lobbying and protests within the system, playing by the rules, submitting list of names to participate in the supposed "public hearings" with no avail. Most who interviewed me did not realize the infamous 30 seconds, where KMT legislator and internal administrative committee chair, Chang Ching-chung unilaterally declared the review as finished and sent the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement out of committee for vote. Some interviewer came with the preconceived notion that the occupation was orchestrated by the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) or by its former chairwoman, Tsai Ing-wen. Some asked if the protesters were anti-China and anti-free trade. I systematically informed those who are interested of hearing about my observation that, when it comes to Taiwan, nothing is simple. Issues are almost always multifaceted and there are always numerous variables at play. While there are some anti-free trade and anti-globalization elements within the occupation participants, one cannot generalize the Sunflower Movement as just an anti-China or anti-free trade movement. There was also the variable to wanting to maintain the quality of democracy in Taiwan, as well as secure procedural justice for government institutions like the Legislative Yuan. As far as the Taiwanese government's official position of accusing the student protesters as violent, unruly, unreasonable mob, there are plenty of videos on Youtube for one to see it for him/herself. There are also numerous videos of police brutality on the days of Marcy 23rd-24th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched more than 350 thousand people filling Ketagalan Boulevard and the surrounding streets on March 30th, I was reminded the very first protest I documented on the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement in front of the Executive Yuan on June 24th 2013, the day before the agreement was signed. There were less than 20 young students and members of NGOs present. There were practically no media coverage of the event. The turn out on March 30th was incredible, it also was a demonstration and validation of the student activists' hard work in the past year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, as the international coverage and articles on the Sunflower Movement demonstrated, there is a pressing need for a channel or platform, where foreign journalists, academics, researchers, government officials, policy makers and Taiwan watchers, can turn to for concise and accurate reporting and on-the-ground information on Taiwan without the filtering of pan-blue or pan-green media. With the funding I have from my current position at a research institution, I am looking to launch a weekly or bi-weekly publication on the happenings of Taiwan. As events happen, for example, like the Sunflower Movement or the 7-in-1 local election, I would then publish more than once a week. The launch date of the first issue should be in mid-May. I hope this endeavor will contribute to aiding the readers of my blog to further keep up with events in Taiwan as they unfold</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly, here are links to my interviews and video. Thanks for reading my blog entries and submitting your comments. The upcoming year in Taiwan will be an eventful one, so please stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-26/taiwans-students-head-streets-sunflowers-protest-closer-ties-china">Taiwan's students head to the streets with sunflowers to protest closer ties with China</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sojournertruthradio/sets/sojournertruthradio-3-26-14">Protests in Taiwan against a controversial trade agreement with China</a></span><br />
<a href="http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201403311140-0023599"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taiwan's 'sunflower movement' wary of Chinese ties</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ia700805.us.archive.org/24/items/20140403Uprising/2014_04_03_taiwan.mp3">Uprising Radio - Taiwan students protest against Trade Agreement with China</a></span>Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-61084964511043882222014-02-25T09:30:00.000+08:002014-02-25T09:41:06.002+08:00Party-State Reemerge Through Education<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My article published by the University of Nottingham's <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2014/02/23/party-state-reemerges-through-education-in-taiwan/">China Policy Institute</a> on Taiwan's high school textbook "minor adjustment" controversy.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Stop Colonial Assimilation Education! Give us back our curriculum!” on an early morning late last week, members of aboriginal rights groups and organizations gathered outside of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and chanted slogan in protest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geography professor Tibusungu Vayayana (汪明輝) of the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), said angrily that education for aborigines has long been stolen from them and replaced by Han-centered education. As a result, aboriginal youths had never been able to learn about their history, culture and language, and the government should put an end to the century-old culture genocide. Vayayana is the director of the NTNU’s Indigenous Research, a member of Alishan’s (阿里山) Tsou Tribe (鄒族) and was once a high school teacher. Vayayana was joined by members of the Indigenous Youth Front (原住民族青年陣線), Taiwan Indigenous People Society (台灣原社), Association of Taiwan Indigenous People Development (台灣原住民學院促進會), Indigenous People Action Coalition of Taiwan (台灣原住民部落行動聯盟), and the Association for Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples’ Policy (台灣原住民族政策協會), among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The protest from the aboriginal community was only one of the series of protests prompted by the Ministry of Education’s so-called “minor-adjustment (微調)” of the high school textbooks in four subjects: Chinese language, civic education, geography and history.<br /><br />Since mid-January, university professors, high school teachers, historians, students and social organizations took to the streets and congregated at the Ministry of Education to voice their concerns and discontent. Opponents of the revisions lambasted the Ministry of Education of “de-Taiwanizing (去臺化)”, “sinicization” and for “brainwashing” the students by manipulating history in order to spread the “Greater China Awareness(大中國意識)”. The adversaries also slammed the Ministry for disrespecting procedural transparency when approving the adjustments and condemned the administration for appointing assessment task force members based on their pro-unification ideology rather than the individual’s professional backgrounds and qualification.</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Violent and Convoluted Changes (粗暴亂調)” vs. “Bringing Order to Chaos (撥亂反正)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />On January 27, two days prior to the Lunar New Year holiday, the Ministry of Education rushed through a review meeting and approved the “minor adjustments” for high school textbooks. The Ministry of Education officially announced the adjustments in late evening of February 10. The changes to the textbooks will be implemented this <a href="http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201401270032-1.aspx">Fall</a> for the new class of high school freshmen.<br /><br />The late night announcement of the textbook adjustments was interpreted by the opposition as yet another “sneak attack” by the administration to force the adjustments and to avoid public scrutiny. During a press conference at the National Taiwan University’s Alumni Guest House, university professors, high school teachers, students and civic organization members said the changes are nothing but “violent and convoluted”, and the Ministry of Education behaved like a bully by rushing through the public hearing and approving the changes immediately. According to the representative from the Civic Teachers Action Alliance (公民教師行動聯盟), some teachers were notified only three days prior to the public hearing and learned of the adjustments, unlike what the Ministry has claimed that the notification was released months ago. National Taiwan University history professor Chou Wang-yao (周婉窈), who attended the protest outside of the MOE on January 27, also indicated that changing almost forty percent of the wording of Taiwan’s history, when only single digit percent of the Chinese history should not be depicted as “minor adjustments”. The opposition also questioned the legitimacy of the changes and the lack of procedural transparency.<br /><br />Among the most controversial changes were, reference to China was changed to “mainland China (中國大陸)” instead of simply China. According to the opposition, referring to China as “mainland China (中國大陸)” implies Taiwan and China are of the same entity, and Taiwan is an island to the mainland. In addition, the Age of Exploration (大航海時代 ) is now changed to “The Han arrived Taiwan, Age of Exploration (漢人來台大航海時代)”, which according to history experts do not make much sense. Moreover, “Japanese Governance Period (日本統治時期)” is now changed to “The Japanese Colonial Governance Era (日本殖民統治時期)”. The “Qing Dynasty (清朝)” is now the “Qing Court (清廷)”, and the Cheng Family Dynasty (鄭氏統治時期) has been changed to “Ming [dynasty’s] Cheng Governance Period (明鄭統治時期)”. Furthermore, the Dutch and Spanish governing period (荷西治台) is revised to the Dutch and Spanish invasion period (荷西入台).<br /><br />The critics argue that changing the name for the Cheng Family Dynasty period to the Ming’s Cheng Governance Period suggests when Cheng Cheng-kung (鄭成功 )established control over Taiwan, Cheng, a Ming Dynasty loyalist, did it as a representative of the Ming Dynasty. This adjustment, the critics say, implies China’s territorial ownership of Taiwan. According to history professor, Lee Hsiao-feng (李筱峰) of the National Taiwan University of Education, this particular change is historically inaccurate. Lee points out, when Cheng Cheng-kung arrived Taiwan, he founded a new kingdom in which he named Dongdu/Eastern Capital (東都)in the southwest part of Taiwan. Cheng’s son, Cheng Ching (鄭經) than changed the name of the kingdom to Dongning (東寧). The Kingdom of Dongning was then succeeded by Cheng Cheng-kung’s grandson. Cheng Ching once declared, said Lee, “Dongning is far out in the sea. It is no part of the territory of China. We have our own aristocracy. We have our own culture and these compare favorably with those of China (東寧遠在海外,非居版圖之中,王侯之貴吾自所有,衣冠之盛不輸於中土)”. For Lee, such adjustment is made to advocate President Ma Ying-jeou’s “Greater China” ideology and an effort by the KMT government to pander to Beijing’s unification ideology.<br /><br />In addition to the revision on historical terms, critics also slammed the Ministry of Education for removing the term “White Terror” from the “Civic and Society” textbook and replacing the term with “The Government’s excessive used of power to oppress the citizens (政府濫用權力對人民的迫害)”. According to Professor <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gpbVT6GKU">Hsueh Huah-yuan</a> (薛化元), Director of the National Chengchi University’s Taiwan History Institute, the section with discussion and critique of the development of human rights and civil society and movements after World War II were also removed from the “Civic and Society” textbook.<br /><br />In response to its critics, the Minister of Education, Chiang Wei-ing (蔣偉寧), whose professional degree is civil engineering, says the adjustments were legally and lawfully proposed, discussed and passed to ensure the curriculum reflect the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2014/01/140127_taiwan_history_text_book.shtml">spirit of Constitution</a>. The minor adjustments of the high school textbooks, according to the Ministry of Education, are the administration’s attempt to “bring order after chaos (撥亂反正)”. Chiang further argues that there isn’t any “de-Taiwanization as the opponents claimed but “a bit more ‘de-Japanization’.” The Ministry of Education’s Director Secretary, <a href="http://newtalk.tw/news/2014/01/27/43983.html">Wang Jough-tai</a> (王作臺), an Atmospheric scientist, also says the previous textbooks placed too much emphasis on the arrival of the Dutch and Spanish, whereas the Han population arrived Taiwan even earlier than the Europeans. According to Wang, the Dutch and Spanish were invaders of Taiwan, so the language of the textbook should reflect them as such. Wang also emphasizes that the previous textbooks excessively beautified Japanese colonialism and failed to emphasize the Japanese oppression of the population on Taiwan.<br /><br />On the other hand, critics argue the claim the adjustment was made to adhere to the Constitution is deceitful. The Republic of China Constitution was adopted in 1947, but members of the aborigine tribes and the Austronesian languages had been prospering on Taiwan for thousands of years. Moreover, critics also question the extent to which the Japanese rule can be tweaked to relate to the ROC Constitution.<br /><br /><b>Unqualified taskforce and Lack of Procedural Transparency</b><br /><br />Another reason for the tremendous backlash on the “minor adjustments” is the composition of the ten-member assessment taskforce appointed by the Ministry of Education. The ten task force members are divided into four sub-groups: Chinese language, history, geography and civic education. Critics point to the lack of professional background and ideology biases among the task force members, questioning the extent to which none of the task force members is a historian and none possessed educational and historical professional background.<br /><br />The most controversial appointment was the convener of the task force. Wang Hsiao-po (王曉波), who is a Chinese language and Chinese philosophy professor at Shih Hsin University. Wang is also the Vice Chairman of the <a href="http://www.onechina.org.tw/">Alliance for Reunification of China</a> (中國統一聯盟). In addition, Chinese literature professor, Hsieh Ta-ning (謝大寧) Fo Guang University, is also the Secretary General of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LATHXH">Chinese Integration Association</a> (兩岸統合協會). Pan Chao-yang of the National Taiwan Normal University’s Department of East Asian Studies, once remarked Taiwan shouldn’t form alliance with the United States or Japan against China; otherwise, Taiwan would become <a href="http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1022/0/4/5/102204593_2.html?coluid=93&kindid=2910&docid=102204593&mdate=0818002404">traitor to the Han ethnicity</a>. Pan also advocated <a href="http://mag.chinareviewnews.com/doc/93_2910_102672515_1_0810004118.html">education reform</a> in order to “bring order to chaos” and textbooks in Taiwan should be co-authored by academics from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.<br /><br />The division of the sub-group was also the subject of great criticism. Economics professor, Chu Yun-peng (朱雲鵬) was a member of the history sub-group and was also a member of the civic education sub-group, along with National Taiwan University political science professor Bau Tzong-ho (包宗和). Four out of the ten members are Chinese language and philosophy professors with no historian specializing Taiwanese history.<br /><br />The opposition also accuse the Ministry of Education of bypassing procedures, hiding the changes and failing to notify high school teachers to participate in the public hearing. The opposition says the Ministry was only paying lip service to procedural justice. Working group convener, <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/02/11/2003583248/1">Wang Yin</a> (王垠) who is also a principal of national Yilan Senior High School, said he was unaware of the content of the changes until he read them in the newspapers. According to Fu Jan University Professor, <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/01/22/2003581859">Chen Chun-kai (陳君愷)</a>, teachers were informed about the public hearing only after the deadline for registration has passed.<br /><br /><b>On-going Battle</b><br /><br />Even though the Ministry of Education passed the textbook revisions, the battle between the administration and those who oppose to the changes is just beginning. William Lai (賴清德), Mayor of Greater Tainan, declared that his municipality will not adopt or implement the revised textbook guidelines. Subsequently, five other cities and counties governed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Greater Kaohsiung, Yilan, Chiayi and Yunlin, also refuse to implement the new curriculum. Meanwhile, university professors, teachers and students continue to hold public forums and <a href="http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/12177_10201023644788068_2037699321_n.jpg">discussion panels </a>to promote public awareness of MOE’s textbook revisions and to encourage citizens to sign an online <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19IbJ42R4T9Jx6qnONp-KEuyUmWcozicoHluataepMJU/viewform?edit_requested=true">petition</a> for the government to drop the changes.<br /><br />The DPP also filed a complaint with the Control Yuan against the Minister of Education for administrative errors. According to the DPP, it was the Minister’s intentional mistake that led to the passage of such changes. This past weekend, DPP legislators and the advocates opposing the “minor-adjustments” filed a <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/02/21/2003583998">lawsuit</a> against the Minister of Education for forgery of documents. According to the plaintiff’s lawyer, Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎), the 43-member panel at the meeting convened by the Ministry of Education on January 27 decided to withhold endorsement for the proposed changes, yet the Ministry concluded that the panel members agreed to the changes.<br /><br />Last Friday was the first day of the legislative session after the new year, and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) was questioned by the opposition legislators over the textbook changes, when Jiang said he couldn’t understand what was wrong with the textbook revisions and procedures. The Premier then voiced his unfalteringly supports the changes. Jiang said the previous textbook examines history through a Japanese lens, not the perspective of the ROC or Taiwan. Jiang proclaimed that history needs to respect the facts and if “we couldn’t follow through [with the changes], it would be <a href="http://www.stormmediagroup.com/opencms/news/detail/5d4c3aab-9ae2-11e3-b44e-ef2804cba5a1?uuid=5d4c3aab-9ae2-11e3-b44e-ef2804cba5a1">an insult to our ancestors and offspring</a>”.<br /><br />The Ma administration has already revised and implemented changes in high school textbooks in 2011, so there shouldn’t be an immediate or urgent need for more adjustments, especially conducted in such hurried manner. Interestingly, the revision of high school textbooks coincided with the administration’s acceleration of other agreements with China like the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement and the Trade-in-Goods Agreement. A recent <a href="http://www.tisr.com.tw/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TISR_TMBS_201402.pdf">poll </a>conducted by the Taiwan Indicators Survey Research (TISR), after Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Minister, Wang Yu-chi(王郁琦) met with Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, in China last week, 82% of those between the age of 20-29 reject eventual unification with China. Additionally, the population who identified themselves as Taiwanese continue to increase in Taiwan. The cultural, social and political climate of Taiwan and China could not be more different. Under current circumstances, “brainwashing” of Taiwanese to become more Chinese would more likely be unsuccessful.<br /><br />As the textbook adjustment battle continues, the DPP and KMT legislators came to a consensus last Friday to have the Ministry of Education invite history and civic education teachers, academics and members of the local government for a national conference to further discuss the adjustments. The DPP vowed to keep requesting the Minister of Education to report to the Legislative Yuan to answer questions regarding the adjustments before implementation. The issue of textbook adjustments will be an important issue to watch for the current legislative session in Taiwan as well as the progress of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement.</span></div>
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Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-43032088665902942822014-01-16T12:11:00.000+08:002014-01-16T16:19:17.550+08:00Disgrace in Academia - Smearing of a Democracy Icon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, at the University Administrative Meeting, the
National Cheng Kung University’s administrative committee dismissed the name
“Nylon Square or the Southern Bayan Square (<span lang="ZH-TW">南榕廣場</span>)” for the newly
finished plaza at the University – the reason being “Nylon Square” was too
political.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all, 3521 students voted
in the plaza-naming event sponsored by the University, and 971 students voted
to have “Nylon Square” as the name for the new plaza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The student’s decision to put “Nylon Square” as one of the
names in the lot was straightforward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nan-Jung “Nylon” Deng was<span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> a
democracy advocate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More specifically,
as the </span>editor-in-chief of the Freedom Era Weekly (<span lang="ZH-TW">自由時代周刊</span>),
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">founded by Deng in 1984, Deng was particularly
active in his quest to promote “100% freedom of expression”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Deng received indictment papers for “Attempting
to Commit Treason (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">涉嫌派亂罪</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)” from the Taiwan High Prosecutor’s Office in
January 21<sup>st</sup>, 1989 for publishing then-Constitutional scholar Ko
Sei-kai’s (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">許世楷</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">) “Draft for New Taiwan Constitution (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">新台灣憲法草案</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, advocates of
Taiwan independence can still be charged under criminal code no.100 of the “Treason
Punishment Act (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">懲治叛亂條例</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">),” as the Kuomintang government still yet to
abolish the “Period of National Mobilization to Suppress Community Movement (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">動員戡亂時期</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)”. After seventy-one days of barricading himself in his magazine’s
office, Deng self-immolated when the police tried to smoke him out with fire
and attempted to force their way into Deng’s office to arrest him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deng’s sacrifice is now regarded as one of
the most seminal moments of Taiwan’s democratization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, the administrators and some
participants of the administrative meeting at the National Cheng Kung University,
where Nylon Cheng once attended, disagreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The University President refused to admit the school’s refusal to
acknowledge the votes from the student is undemocratic and warrants an
apology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He further joked that it
doesn’t matter what the plaza is called, as some people still refer to “Liberty
Square” as the “Chiang Kai-shek Memorial”, there is nothing preventing the
students from calling the plaza “Nylon Square,” even if the name was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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history professor, Wang Wen-hsia (王文霞).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
claiming she’s been teaching 19<sup>th</sup> century European history, Wang
described the naming controversy as a failure of education in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wang expressed her doubts on Deng’s
contribution to Taiwan’s democratization, arguing that Deng wasn’t the only one
responsible for advocating freedom of press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wang further compared Deng’s self-immolation to that of a “Muslim
Suicide Bomber </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(伊斯蘭的炸彈客)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">” and depict Deng’s behavior as someone throwing a tantrum after
not getting what he wanted, like a young man who decided to commit suicide
after his girlfriend left him, or a child who kills his parents after his
parents refused him money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wang then
argued Deng’s self-immolation is anti-democratic and demonstrated Deng’s lack
of respect to life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After reading the <a href="http://newtalk.tw/news/2014/01/16/43692.html">transcript</a> of Wang’s rant
and listening to the <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/qwer1295">recording (From 19:40)</a> of her tone, I was left appalled and
flabbergasted. Wang claimed historical inaccuracies to the other meeting participants' presentation of what happened to Deng on the faithful day of April 7<sup>th</sup>,
1989, yet she provides no clarification or evidence otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also attempt to cast doubt on whether the
police did use fire tactic to force Deng from his office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wang further criticized students and society
in general for not understanding the values of democracy and contended Deng’s
behavior was violent and also an escape to the problems he was facing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wang’s reference the “Muslim Suicide Bomber”
reflects her own ignorance to Middle Eastern politics, the Islamic religion,
colonialism and the roots of suicide bombing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is essentially prejudice and racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am not even sure if Wang even understood the extent to which
individuals who decide to give the ultimate sacrifice arrive such decision for
a cause they considered so important to the collective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The light-hearted, half-joking tone when she
said, “He’s just like those suicide bombers mah~” said it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also a demonstration of her own
arrogance, callousness and disregard to Deng’s surviving family members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, there was political science professor
Jaung Fwi-taur (莊輝濤), who said “academia shouldn’t involve itself in ‘political
conflicts’.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this left me wondering, if academia is
supposed to be neutral and shouldn’t involve itself in political conflicts as
Mr. Jaung claimed, then what is the point to even have a political science
department at NCKU?</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The field of
political science IS all about conflicts - from Constitutionalism to Public
Policy, Public Administration to International Relations and Comparative
Politics and even Political Philosophy.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theories of Political Science are derivation of clashes of tradition,
class struggles, and confrontation between states, individuals and
agencies.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For someone who supposedly is
a teacher of political science to deliver such comment, one has to wonder what
is he teaching to his students in his classes then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is good to see the students of NCKU, with
support and along with students from other universities and faculty members have
been and are fighting back.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An alumni
took down the characters for “Retrocession” last week on the NCKU’s Kuang-Fu
campus to demonstrate the term “retrocession” is also a political term devised
by the Kuomintang government to demonstrate Taiwan’s return to the Motherland,
China.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students also advocated the
removal of Zhong-Zheng Statium (中正堂), as Zhong-Zheng is the name of Chiang Kai-shek,
who did commit mass murders in both China and in Taiwan.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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NCKU administrative meeting were, the positive aspects from the plaza naming controversy
at NCKU is that it brought the authoritarian apologists to the surface and let
the public hear them through their own mouths. The </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">controversy created a platform for youths and the general public
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visitors pay their respect to Nylon Deng at the Deng Liberty Foundation on the day of Deng's death</td></tr>
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Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-80600678498952176872013-12-01T11:48:00.002+08:002013-12-03T21:04:12.273+08:00Bigotry and hatred under the Sun <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a sunny Saturday, upset with the Legislative Yuan's passage of the first round of review to revise Civil Code 972 to legalize same sex marriage, religious groups, mostly
Christians, mobilized to come to Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard to voice their
opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The rally participants arrived by busloads. </span>According to the organizers,
the event drew 300,000 participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
calculation being on the ground was between 10,000 and 20,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to head to the area for an observation, because I
learned not only will the anti-same-sex marriage groups would gather in front of the
President’s Office, supporters of the amendment and same sex marriage will also
stage their demonstrations by holding placards in the peripheral areas near
Ketagalan Boulevard and using placards to form the characters for “Equal Rights
to Marriage” at the Legislative Yuan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must say, since I’ve been conducting fieldwork on the
quality of democracy in Taiwan and observing social movements in the past few
years, I’ve never experienced (made to feel so unwelcome) or seen anything like
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon arriving the
Ketagalan Boulevard area, I observed rally participants in different groups
entering the open area on the boulevard, most of them carry self-made signs or
placards from the organizers that said, “I want a Daddy and a Mommy”, “Made in
Mommy and Daddy”, “Against Civil Code 972 Amendment”, “Stop Sexual Liberation”,
“Safeguard Marriage”, and “Safe Guard Family”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some carries signs with insulting and prejudicial slogan like “Same-sex
union means promiscuity” or “Against legalization of promiscuity”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">I made it not even
half way up the boulevard toward the stage, where members of the Coalition for
Happiness of Our Next Generation and the Safeguard Our Family Alliance were
practicing a dance, I was physically blocked by two men with earphone pieces in
their ears and armband stickers that says “Order Maintenance Squad (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">糾察隊</span>)”.
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">One of them said to me, “You cannot take photos
freely here, and you cannot be here (</span><span lang="ZH-TW">這裡不能隨便照相,你不能來這裡</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">)”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the first time in Taiwan that I have
been stopped told at a demonstration that I cannot photograph or go where I
wanted to on a public street. After telling the two men I am an academic researching
Taiwan’s civil movements, as the organizers have repeatedly claimed themselves
as (and not as a mobilization of Christian groups), the men spoke to someone “higher
up” in their small microphone and finally let us through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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children, most of whom weren’t old enough to understand the purpose of their
outing, quite a few young adults, chattering with each other, making jokes and
playing with their cell phones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and Nursery rhyme “My Lovely Family” were played
repeatedly while I walked around the premise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You have to speak Chinese!”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I headed away from Ketagalan, I saw members
of the Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church (同光同志長老教會) standing with a rainbow flag,
a rainbow-colored cross and placards in support of same sex marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked toward them to take some photos but
then realized I was surrounded by the anti-same sex marriage participants,
along with the members of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After surrounding the church members for about ten minutes, one members
of the “Order Maintenance Squad” said to the rest, “Move in closer!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the group of about thirty closed in on us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“These people are encircling us so closely, they are not leaveng me any space
to take photos”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also with the “Order Maintenance Squad” sticker on her arm said to me loudly in
Mandarin, “You need to speak Chinese here!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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around and asked, “I know how to speak Mandarin, but why shouldn’t I use my
first language to communicate?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hear myself getting louder, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are in Taiwan, we are not in China!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
the hell are you talking about?” I looked her straight in the eye and said
loudly in which I find her slowly backing away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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should speak Chinese”, she insisted and started turning away from me to face
the stage far away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is Taiwan, and a democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have no right to tell me which language I
can use to communicate with!” I dropped her the last sentence and continue documenting
what was happening in front of me with the church members.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, I couldn't help but think, so, not only others' rights to be married should be dictated by the rhetoric of these rally participants, even one's freedom to communicate in a particular language is subject to screening as well?</span></span></div>
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Central Library, I saw a small group of the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil
Partnership Rights being surrounded by fifty men with “Order Maintenance Squad”
on their arms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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press conference, the fifty men moved in toward them to prevent the small group
from going anywhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The men formed
a human wall, blocking any one and everyone from moving on the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some members of the Alliance broke free of
the wall but were chased down and encircled again by the “Order Maintenance
Squad”, while the police officers stood by and did nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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these squad members all wore white hats and white facial masks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wouldn’t say a word yet they held hands
to prevent individuals whom they deemed not to be on their side from freely
walking on public streets or even leaving the rally premise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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by one of the squad members, as he was down, they held hand and stood over
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them remarked in Taiwanese, “Wow,
he’s difficult to catch!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought,
these people are ordinary citizens with no law enforcement authority over
anyone, how is it legal and appropriate for them to chase down other citizens
who they thought were in disagreement with their religious or political view?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hours I was at the event. While the event organizers on stage attempted to paint the
façade of happiness, unity, harmony, morality, family values to cover up the
underlying hatred, bigotry and discrimination, others with different stance were prevented from approaching the premise. The supporters of same sex marriage with their placards were surrounded, chased down, tripped over and stopped by self-righteous citizens who somehow thought they have the right to act and play law enforcement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I heard rally participants compared homosexuality with Zoophilia (or
bestiality), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calling homosexuals
unnatural and sinful, and saying same-sex marriage supporters have AIDS while
thanking and clapping for each other for attending the event. One woman, also with a mask, kept trying to move around me so she could yell at a young gay man, saying, "Because of you, Taiwan will become promiscuous! (都是因為你們,台灣都可以雜交了啦!).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did my best to prevent her from getting closer to the young man while shooting photos of the same-sex marriage advocates, because I understand fully, even though the young man seemed very confident and proud of who he was, the ugly words would still hurt, and that woman screamed at them with no other intention than to hurt. What made a person think it is appropriate to insult and degrade someone who is different than they are, I don't know, and I will probably never know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What also boggled my mind was the inaction of the police officers on scene. Going through my photos, I saw many police officers just standing on the street corner or on the periphery of the area where anti-same sex marriage supporters bullied the gay rights activists, yet I didn't see any police officers intervene or help the gay rights activists escape the white-masked human circles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I observed Taiwan’s democratization and
democracy for quite a few years now, but I have never seen anything like the rally I experienced yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My encounters with Taiwanese are often
friendly, embracing and helpful, but not yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Now </span>I saw a different face of Taiwan, which I am confident,
is not<i> THE</i> face of Taiwan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very
unfortunately, on Saturday, I discovered a gang of bullies, who would stop at nothing to prevent
those who have different religious or political and police stance from expressing them and are actively preventing other citizens to have the same right to marry
and to form<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> f</span>amilies as they can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For video of the members of the "Order Maintenance Squad" preventing other citizens from holding placards, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-oGGYhbrrw">here</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cc0FUJmJQI&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Video of members of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coalition for Happiness of Our Next Generation preventing PNN journalist from interviewing a young woman with a different opinion.</span></a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young lesbian swarmed by a group of more than twenty, while the police on the right watched</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I've always been very supportive of the government until they did this to me", Mr. Lee said, as he swiftly rolls the dough, pressing it flat, folding it and then rolling it again into the shape of a rope. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Business is picking up gradually. I've cultivated some new customers. Some old customers from the neighborhood would come buy rolls from me from time to time, but this shop is out of the way, and the rest is about NT$30,000 per month. I don't know how long I can sustain the business, but I'll do it until I can't or until I have to move again". Mr. Lee lets out a long sigh and shook his head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Lee or Brother Lee (李哥), as residents of the Huaguang Community call him, was born in the community in 1958. Brother Lee's father, or "Gong Gong (公公/Grandpa)", was a police officer from the Jiangsu Province in China. He and his wife came to Taiwan in 1949, after the Nationalist Chinese Party (KMT) lost the civil war to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They settled in the Huaguang Community and purchased a small, modest house, where Mr. Lee Senior sold clay oven rolls for more than three decades. Brother Lee picked up his father's trade after Mr. Lee Senior retired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I approached the shop, I saw Brother Lee making his famous rolls and listening to Taiwanese songs by my favorite Taiwanese singer, Jiang Hui (江蕙). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Come! Eat some rolls first!" Brother Lee puts two rolls in the small paper bag and stuffs them in my hand, "Try a sweet one and a salty one. They are warm and crunchy!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brother Lee opened his new shop two months ago, and he sells several kinds of rolls. The rolls are all covered in sesame. The longer shaped one has melted sugar inside. The gooey sugar seeps out when one bites into the roll. The round one is salty and is generously laced with green onion. Mr. Lee also makes rolls stuffed with red bean paste, and he also makes chewy green onion flat bread where the dough bounces inside of one's mouth when one eats it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You know I went to Jiangsu twice, one time for sightseeing, and one time to take care of my mother when she fell ill there during a visit", Brother Lee said, "My mother never wanted to go back to China to stay, now that people are free to do so. She said everything she has and know is here. My father was more nostalgic. He wanted to be back, especially when he expired. Both of my parents passed away at an old age. They were both in their 90s. Fortunately, they were gone before the government tried to take our home; otherwise, they would probably be devastated and suffer like the other elderly from the community".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I tried to sneak back to my home to make rolls after we were evicted, but the Civil Executioners caught me and screamed at me to leave". Brother Lee lights up a cigarette, gazing into the distance, "They were making fun of us during demolition day (April 24th), including the Borough Chief. They were smirking and saying, 'We told you to leave earlier. Why fight this? After all your efforts, we are still here, tearing down you house. Hurry up and pack your crap and stop being so pathetic. Did you know? your houses are the easiest to tear down'".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I don't know why the government did this to us. We are law abiding citizens, making a honest living. We never did anything to harm anyone else. We pay taxes. So, why treat us like we are some kind of beggar or criminals? You know that old lady from the soy milk breakfast place who died the day of demolition? The government people said she died because she was already in poor health, and no one asked her to come witness the demolition anyway". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"But, " Brother Lee finishes his cigarette and starts to make a new batch of rolls again, "We all have to start again somehow, right? Some friends told me about this new shop. It costs a lot to rent, NT$30,000, and I make about NT$2,000 on a good day. I also have to pay for electricity, water and material. It'll not be easy to maintain my new shop, but I'll keep going and not give up". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I bid goodbye to Brother Lee, I said I would come back again and also tell my friends about his new shop. "Yes, now you know where I am, come and eat rolls again!" Brother Lee said with a smile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been following the eviction and forced demolition of the Huaguang Community since February and observed more than three demolitions. The authorities and some members of the media have painted the residents as greedy, difficult, money-hungry troublemakers who refused to move from their "illegal" households. Nothing could be further from the truth. The residents work just as hard as everyone else to make a living. They understand nothing is for free and don't want anything for free. The residents settled in the community because of Taiwan's political past, and they were permitted to reside in the community until last year. President Ma Ying-jeou and his political associates often like to say they are only acting in accordance to law (依法行政); however, the law is made for the people. When one takes the human and humanity from the law, the law is nothing but a soulless shell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further reading on the eviction and demolition of Huaguang Community, please read previous blog entries:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/04/one-day-in-huaguang-forced-eviction-and.html">One Day in Huaguang - Forced Eviction and Demolition </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/05/destruction-delayed-anxiety-continues.html">Destruction Delayed, Anxiety Continues - The Huaguang Community update</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/06/razing-huaguang-another-round-of_28.html">Razing Huaguang - Another Round of Demolition</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/08/farewell-march-for-huaguang-community.html">Farewell March for the Huaguang Community </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is my latest article published by University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute on the protest marathon on October 10th. This entry contains additional photographs from the protests not included in the <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2013/10/15/national-day-protest-day/">original publication</a>.</span></div>
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As President Ma Ying-jeou touted economic liberalization, cross-Strait reconciliation and “a rational civil society” in his “National Day” speech, the surrounding area near the President’s Office, where the “Double Ten National Day” ceremony was held, was neither tranquil nor celebratory.<br /><br />A total of six organized protests with support and endorsement from many civic organizations inspired tens of thousands of citizens to congregate at several locations in the vicinity of the President’s Office. The heavy law enforcement presence, occasional clashes with the police, miles of bolted-to-the-ground barricades and razor wire combined with the celebratory music, synchronized dancing children and jovial announcements on the other side of the barricade to make the celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the Republic of China one of the most bizarre events one can witness. On location, it felt as if one is experiencing a parallel universe where the mechanically jubilant side was, or selected to, ignore the furious screams and battle chants of the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article provides a snap shot of the civic organizations’ demonstrations on “National Day” and concludes with some analysis on the impact and implication of the protests.<br /><br /><b>The Black Island Nation Youth Front (黑色島國青年聯盟)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Members of this overarching group are students from Taiwan’s top universities. The group</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was founded with the goal of maintaining Taiwan’s democratic quality, which includes lobbying and protesting the Service Trade Agreement with China, which the current administration is aggressively attempting to push through the Legislative Yuan. The group condemns the Ma administration’s endeavor as lacking procedural transparency and institutional checks and balances. The Black Island Nation Youth Front is endorsed by several campus groups from universities such as the National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National Tsing Hua University, National Cheng Kung University, to name a few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Black Island National Youth Front has been holding panels and discussion groups on university campuses on the impact of signing the Service Trade Agreement with China in the past few months with the most recent activity being a three-day workshop on the agreement. Academics such as the chairperson of the NTU Economics Department, Jang Show-ling (鄭秀玲), Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) of the National Chung Hsing University, Department of Applied Economics, Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), Research Fellow of the Institutum Iuriprudentiae of Academia Sinica and Wu Jieh-min (吳介民), Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology of Academia Sinica, were all among the participants and lecturers at the workshop.<br /><br />The group argues that the extent of the current agreement with China is nontransparent and decision making has only involved specific members of the KMT. The Legislative Yuan is to only serve as rubber stamp for such agreement. The Front also condemns Kuomintang legislators for cramming eight so-called public hearings for the members of impacted industries in three days without giving ample preparation time or even notification to the hearing participants. The “public hearings” were also closed to those who were not invited.<br /><br />The student members are also highly critical of wiretapping by the government, and the administration’s use of the courts and harsh criminal charges against protesters and political dissidents.<br /><br />The Black Island Nation Youth Front occupied the stage to the “National Day” ceremony late evening of October 8thand attempted to hold a two-day sit-in until October 10th. The students held banners with slogans such as “The President Destroys the Constitution, How can one Celebrate?”, “Executive, Legislative, Judicial – Ma’s Evil Three-in-One”, and “Ma, Wu, Jiang step down!”<br /><br />Students came back to occupied the East Gate, after being expelled by the police, until the morning of October 10th. Another violent clash between the students and the police officers occurred in early morning of October 10th when the students and a small truck with speakers from the Safeguard Miaoli Youth Alliance attempted to move to the front of the barricade. The police forcibly towed the truck leaving many students injured. The protest in front of the barricade at Ketagalan Boulevard lasted for another five hours, and the students moved to the Legislative Yuan to join Citizen 1985’s flag rising ceremony.<br /><br />The Front’s next activity will be continue to monitor the progress of the Service Trade Agreement in the Legislative Yuan and to lobby legislative members to demand the administration to renegotiate the agreement with transparency.<br /><br /><b>Citizen 1985 (公民1985)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The “October 10th, We are all Citizens (十月十日,天下為公)” flag rising ceremony from Citizen 1985 drew more than sixty thousand people to the event, making the demonstration the largest one on October 10th. Many civic organizations such as the Taiwan National Alliance (台灣國陣線), Taiwan Rural Front (台灣農村陣線), Black Island Nation Youth Front, Taiwan Society, Taiwan Friends Association (台灣之友) all endorsed and encouraged their members to attend the flag rising ceremony.<br /><br /> Citizen 1985 is the little known civic group founded by netizens who were quite adamant on remaining anonymous, for the alleged reason that they do not wish to take attention away from the issues at hand. The group was responsible for the rally to demand truth behind Corporal Hung Chung-chiu’s (洪仲丘) death and to reform the court martial system that has been implemented for the past 57 years. The Corporal Hung rally drew a quarter of million participants to Ketagalan Boulevard on August 3rd of this year.<br /><br />Citizen 1985 held a “Citizen flag (公民旗)” rising ceremony on October 10th at 10 minutes past 10 o’clock. After the organizers raised the “Citizen” flag, they also hoisted the Kuomintang (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) flags, sowed together, half staffed, a controversial move that symbolized the two parties as equally incapable and corrupt.<br /><br />Citizen 1985 called for revision of the Referendum Act (公民投票法) , the Election and</span><br />
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Recall Act for Public Servants (公職人員選舉罷免法) and for lowering the threshold for public subsidies of political parties and legislator-at-large. The organization also calls for renegotiation of the Service Trade Agreement with China with no backroom dealings.<br /><br />The demonstration ended with the participants, again, all wearing white shirts, walking to Liberty Square and then occupying the steps to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, creating quite an impressive visual.<br /><br /><b>Other Demonstrations</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were four other smaller scaled protests in the same vicinity as the President’s Office </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on “National Day”. The anti-nuclear power activists and their supporters also raised the organization’s “No Nuke!” flag at the Legislative Yuan and kicked off the anti-nuclear power march around Taiwan with its first stop at the site of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The National Alliance for Workers of Closed-off Factories (全國關廠工人陣線) scheduled a shoe drive at Liberty Square for the organization’s demonstration next month. The organization’s original plan to surround Sun Yat-Sen Memorial on September 29th was cancelled after the Kuomintang postponed its National Congress meeting to November 9th in Taichung. The shoe-throwing activity was inspired by National Tsing Hua University student Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷), who hurled his shoe at the Miaoli County Commissioner, Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻), when Liu attempted to enter the home of Chang Shen-wen (張森文), owner of a local pharmacy whose home was forcibly demolished by the county government and was found drowned two months after demolition, to pay his respect. Demonstrators at the National Alliance for Workers of Closed-off Factories were able to throw shoes at photos of politicians, including President Ma Ying-jeou, Vice President Wu Den-yih and Premier Jiang Yi-huah.<br /><br />The Citizens’ Alliance to Depose Ma (公民行動倒馬聯盟) printed its special red white and blue “National Day” placards for the organization’s protest at the Legislative Yuan. Lastly, members of the 908 Taiwan Nation (908台灣國) and the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan (公投救台灣聯盟) marched back and forth on Chung Shan South Road with 908 members carrying a coffin for President Ma Ying-jeou and an urn for Premier Jiang Yi-huah.<br /><br />The demonstrations ended late afternoon before the National Day Gala.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Observation and Conclusion</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> In the recent demonstrations, including the many on “National Day”, if one is to evaluate the success of the protest by the sheer number of participants, then Citizen 1985 should be considered as most successful. The group attracted a quarter of a million people to attend the Corporal Hung Rally on Ketagalan Boulevard on August 3rd and sixty thousand citizens for the flag rising ceremony on October 10th. However, numbers alone should not serve as indication to the effectiveness of demonstrations. Exceedingly generalized, overarching, all-inclusive yet ambiguous demands of Citizen 1985 would make it difficult for the organization to hold all the involving government institutions and politicians accountable. It would also make it difficult for the organization to encourage and divide the task of monitoring government institutions and politicians among its members and supporters. The low participation threshold and cost enabled the organization to entice citizens to come out and join the rally; however, without follow ups, continuous monitoring and turning all the demands into political advocacy, the asks would only fall short.<br /><br />As a new civic organization, there is great room for improvement if Citizen 1985 seeks to play the role as an organization of “Citizen Awakening”, to educate citizens who otherwise would not take to the streets and to hold politicians accountable for their action. For example, during the group’s three rallies, Citizen 1985 organizers repeatedly emphasized members of the group and its supporters as “high quality citizens” who are also “rational”, “reasonable”, “non-violent” and “peaceful”. This depiction of the organization’s members is all-good, but exclamation as such also implicitly depict the other civic groups and their members, who have been lobbying and advocating similar issues for much longer and more consistently, as not of “high quality” or are irrational, overly emotional, and violent. In addition, organizers of Citizen 1985 also insisted for the rally participants to march directly and quickly to Liberty Square after the ceremony in front of the Legislative Yuan and not join or participate in the activities of other organizations.<br /><br />While members of Citizen 1985 might be all well intentioned, divisiveness within social movements is not conducive to generate pressure for the government to be responsive and attain policy change. This might, on contrary, play into the administration’s favor, making all social movements and civic groups easier to dismiss.<br /><br />That said, small-scaled yet consistent protests with elements of unpredictability to keep law enforcement and the administration on their toes in combination with outreach and lobbying responsible politicians and political parties should be much effective.<br /><br />Protests in Taiwan on issues such as Service Trade Agreement with China, land expropriation, forced eviction and demolition of people’s homes, and nuclear power will continue in the upcoming months, with the next large-scaled protest on November 9th, the day of the Kuomintang National Congress. The Ma administration has to and should address the discontent of the public soon if the president doesn’t want his approval rating to further plummet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned what I fear the most after lunch yesterday. Mr. Chang's body was found face-down in a drainage ditch near him home. Even then, I thought to myself, maybe they made a mistake. We'll soon receive a correction message on the matter. What came next was the opposite. It was confirmed. Mr. Chang was indeed gone. Cause of death: drowning. The police are still investigating how.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I arrived Taiwan three years ago for research and data collection, I was shocked by a Youtube video showing excavators being driven into acres of rice paddies, flipping and digging up crops that were almost ready to be harvested and police officers holding back elderly crying farmers and preventing them from going after the excavators to stop them. I later discovered the incident happened in Dapu Borough of Jhunan Township of Miaoli County. The county government sought to acquire those land to make space for an expansion project for the Jhunan Technology Park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I heard the residents of Dapu were coming to the Executive Yuan to protest the forced eviction and demolition of their homes in the subsequent month, I was surprised, as I thought then-Premier Wu Den-yih had promised the residents could keep their homes and land. Commissioner Liu even apologized for his brutal acts. Well, all the government officials involved reneged on their promises. Wu, now Vice President, even said he has never promised anything, but the official document issued by the EY demonstrated otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw Mr. Chang during the first day of protest, he looked worrisome but was in good spirit. He didn't remember me at all, so we reintroduced ourselves. He was his usual caring and kind self, constantly asking other protesters, who were mainly students, if they had enough food or water. He even shoved a few plastic cups of water in my hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the government refused to retract the demolition notice, Mr. Chang's smile disappeared. He became silent, often sitting India-style under the tent but didn't speak to anyone. His eyes constantly in a daze, usually looking downward. In the three days in front of the Executive Yuan, I observed the disintegration and destruction of a man, psychologically, physically and emotionally. Mr. Chang collapsed and lost consciousness when police expelled him from the Executive Yuan. He collapsed again the following week and was rushed to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Taipei. There he would say for weeks, before he was released to go back to Dapu. Mr. Chang was diagnosed with severe depression, paranoia and said he had thoughts of suicide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, a day before Mid-Autumn Festival and two months to the date of his home being demolished, Mr. Chang left this world. He left no note and took nothing with him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">County Commissioner Liu tried to go to the Chang household to light an license last night and was driven away by the students and supporters. Someone threw a shoe at him and hit him in the head. Everything was a bit too little, too late. Commissioner Liu could have preventing all this, yet he chose self-interest and greed over humanity and compassion. He and his minions bullied the Changs until Mr. Chang was completely broken and no longer the man Mrs. Chang could recognize. Some are those within the central government. They all have a role to play in Mr. Chang's end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't want to go into the discussion of land grabbing and government responsibility now. At the moment, I want to bring attention to Mr. Chang, as a great and loving father, a family man, a man who was hardworking and with ethics, who was always there to lend a helping hand to his neighbors and others who were experience hard times and always greeted people and his pharmacy patrons with a pristine, white smile. His sudden departure remains unacceptable to many still and he will be greatly missed. Many have already vowed to carry on the fight, and I have no doubt they would do so, and I sincerely hope those who are responsible for Mr. Chang's demise get what they deserve, in this life or the next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Chang Sen-wen (張森文) of the Chang Pharmacy (張藥房) in Dapu Borough of Miaoli County has been missing since early this morning. According to his wife, Ms. Peng Hsiu-chun (彭秀春), Mr. Chang left the house in the wee hours of the morning without his bike and hasn't been seen since. Their son is filing a missing person's report with the police.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last round of demolition of the Huaguang Community will be between August 27th and August 29th, though demolition has been temporary suspended due to Tropical Storm Kong-Rey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 27th, residents of Huaguang Community and their supporters marched on the streets of Taipei to protest the eviction and forced demolition of Taipei last mainlander community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've written quite a few entries on the case of Huaguang Community and the plight of its residents. If the reader is interested in learning more about the controversy surrounding Huaguang Community's demolition, here are the links to my previous entries on the subject:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theparticipantobserverblog.blogspot.tw/2013/05/destruction-delayed-anxiety-continues.html">Destruction delayed, Anxiety Continues</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 27th, at around 8:30am, participants of the march started to arrive at the corner to Aiguo East Road (愛國東路) and Hangzhou South Road (杭州南路). Most of the organizers have been holding an all-night vigil the night before. Students were busy setting up the registration table and handing out placards, stickers and ghost money for the event. They also set up a shrine of "Residence Justice (居住正義) for participants to mourn the loss of the right to residency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were two groups of marchers for the Huaguang Community. One is the usual group of participants holding placards and banners. The other group is made up of fifty volunteers, mostly students. They would carry the rubbles, doors, window frames and other furnitures from the demolition site through the streets of Taipei to demonstrate the suffering of the community residents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was observing the students getting ready, a man's loud voice made me turned my head. I saw Mr. Chen standing there, carrying a photograph of his deceased mother. His voice trembling with anger and sadness, Mr. Chen told the journalists on scene the tragic story of his mother, Mrs. Cheng, who fled to Taiwan with the KMT troops, after the Nationalist Chinese Party lost the Civil War in China. Mrs. Cheng became a maid and also earned money from washing dishes. She was able to purchase a small house in the community and had been residing in her house for the past five decades. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Mrs. Cheng was 85 years old, the Ministry of Justice filed a suit against her for illegally residing and profiting from government land. Mrs. Cheng lived under tremendous anxiety and stress after that. During this year's lunar new year, a mysterious fire broke out near Mrs. Cheng's home. Mrs. Cheng became even more stressed when she had to observe the charred remain of her neighbor's property on a daily basis. Eventually, Mrs. Cheng passed away at the age of 91. Before she died, she asked her son, "Why is the government doing this to me? If they want me to leave, why can't they at least help me a little? Why do they have to sue me?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sun was scorching. The fifty volunteers, carrying heavy articles on their backs, marched slowly on the streets of Taipei, capturing attention from everyone passing by, including Chinese tourists. When the marchers arrived in front of the Executive Yuan, there were three silent performers on scene already. One wore a suit of ghost money, one had a snail shell on her back, and the other was covered in fake blood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The marchers made their way around the silent performers to stick ghost money on President Ma Ying-jeou, Vice President Wu Den-yih and Premier Jiang Yi-huah's photographs, then moved on to Ketagalan Boulevard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I broke with the marchers and went back to the Huaguang Community to witness the demolition, and there were plenty. The first thing I saw when I approached the community was what's left of Chen Bei Bei (Uncle Chen)'s home. Chen Bei Bei's home was a land mark of the community, because of the beautiful plum three in front of his home. He used to make plum jello from the juice he gets from the plum. Chen Bei Bei is also known as "Uncle Plum". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What are you going to do now?" the young police officer asked curiously and insensitively. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They are sending me to a community for old mainlanders soldiers outside of Taipei," Chen Bei Bei replied, "But I don't tell the people I know that I am paying rent. I tell them I am paying the mortgage to my new home, because I don't want people to know I don't have a house anymore". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You know, life is like a journey". Chen Bei Bei continued to say, "You get to stay in one place for a while, but when the time is up, you have to leave, and I am leaving". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was very difficult to not shed any tear when witnessing such scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then moved to the Jinhua Street side of the community and heard some people arguing. It was the owner of Sun's Buns (孫記包子店) and the executioners from the court. Mr. Sun insisted that because he is still in the process of appealing his case with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice could not demolish his store. They did anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was taking photos of the demolition, words come that the students rushed in and took over the court yard of the Ministry of Justice. After protesting for a while and demanding someone from the MOJ to come out to speak to them and accept their plead letter, 500 police officers, including the riot police, grabbed all the students, stuffed them in the police bus and dropped them off at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial on the other side of town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came home with a sense of loss, and I am still recovering from the images of demolition, crying residents and students carrying heavy furniture under the brutal sun. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget what I saw and learned in the past few months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The students vowed to continue fighting for the community members, as most of them still have to pay the tremendous fine the government imposed on them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The students are now having public discussions at places like the Taipei Main Station and Ximending to inform the public about the Huaguang Community and the very basic right of an individual's ability to choose where he wants to live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Tuesday lunch meeting on campus just a few minutes minutes prior to the scheduled press conference of fourteen NGO and civil organizations before the "Experimental Hearing on Safety Distance on Wind Machines". The event was sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (經濟部) and hosted by the Bureau of Energy (能源局). Since I investigated and wrote about the issue of wind turbine distance and the Yuanli Township resident's struggle with government agencies and the German wind power company, InfraVest, over the company's endeavor to erect wind turbines the residents claim to be too close to their homes, I rushed across campus to check things out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon arrival, I observed the Yuanli Township residents and representatives from environmental and human rights NGOs were already there. I walked into the lobby of the lecture hall and saw one can sign up to attend on site, so I did. There were also quite a few individuals standing and sitting in the lobby already. Strangely, most of them were either playing with the cell phones or just standing around, not speaking to anyone, looking bored. I then discovered these individuals were all there to sign up as speakers at the hearing. The organizer would not let me take a photograph of the roster, but there were quite a few "Vest (威)", as in "InfraVest", as part of those individual's affiliated companies. (Note: InfraVest has different affiliated local companies for all its local projects. For example, the local company responsible for the project in Taoyuan County would be called "TaoVest (桃威)". In the case of Yuanli, the local InfraVest company is called "TongVest (通威)" in reference to the Tongxiao Township). After the experimental hearing started, I examined the seats for the speakers, quite a few individuals I saw in the lobby were nowhere to be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the press conference went on, I saw a dozen police officers arrive on scene and move into the lecture hall where the "hearing" was. The atmosphere immediately tensed up when the police officers arrived. Participants looking at each other, probably wondering the same thing I was questioning in my head, is there a need for this much police presence at an experimental hearing about wind machines? Are they here because the residents of Yuanli are here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the press conference ended, I walked into the lecture hall to find a seat. I entered the lecture hall and discovered there were police officers, CID officers, campus security as well as individuals with "work badges" standing all around the room. One would assume some high level government official was going to be present at the experimental hearing for the organizers to have such large presence of security. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is grounds for grave concern, as the large police presence would ultimately intimidate ordinary citizens who would otherwise express their opinion on the issues to be discussed. I'm not sure keeping citizens at bay was what the host of the event intended, but the large presence of police officers was entirely unnecessary and inappropriate. It also demonstrated the Bureau of Energy's insensitivity to citizens and lack of awareness on the importance and guarantee of participation in democracy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, it gets worse, as the experimental hearing proceeded, the CID officers station at both sides of the lecture hall filmed those who raised their hands to question the legitimacy and procedural flaw of the experimental meeting. I naturally assumed the CID officers would turn their camera on everyone who spoke; however, I observed them placing the majority of their concentration filming the participants who were raising question about the experimental hearing, the Yuanli Township residents and their supporters. Even though the CID officers left after the first session, they have already effectively planted the seeds of intimidation in the minds of hearing attendees, as the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attendees understood their faces were already documented camera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As many of the participants pointed out, the Bureau of Energy only sent out notice for the experimental hearing less than five days prior to the hearing, so many organizations and individuals who have employed felt they did not have ample time to prepare for the hearing. Moreover, the presiding chair of the experimental hearing was the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Energy, and the rest of the panelists were also from the same Bureau. There were no independent expert on the panel. Then, how does one have a productive discussion on safety distance of wind turbines? The organizer did not have an answer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the hearing went out, I realized the government bureaucrats had little or no idea which articles of the <a href="http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawContent.aspx?PCODE=A0030055">Administrative Procedure Act (行政程序法) </a>to follow, as all government sponsored hearing should. The chair of the hearing kept referring to his subordinate associate to answer the audience's questions. I felt like, since this is ghost month, I was experiencing the "ghost maze (鬼打牆)", which is the traditional belief that a ghost was trying to manipulate one's senses, so one feels like she is in trapped in a maze, encountering similar and repetitive paths but can't get out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chair and his associates kept mentioning the President's Human Rights Advisory Committee as basis and reason for the experimental hearing. Then, when the audience question the legitimacy of the hearing and whether the conclusion of such hearing is binding in any way, the chair said, since Taiwan has no regulation for safety distance of wind machines, the was no need for such hearing but the experimental hearing would follow the Administrative Procedure Act. Then, the MC intervened and answered the participant's question that the hearing didn't have to follow the Administrative Procedure Act, because the government didn't legally have to have the hearing in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confused yet? And this was all prior to the registered speakers spoke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When questioned again on why the Bureau of Energy decided to hold the experimental hearing, the panel again referred to the President's Human Rights Advisory Committee's recommendation to have the hearing and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">admitted the discussions of the experimental hearing would be documented as reference <i>if</i> the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">government</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ultimately</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> decides to consider implementing any </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">policy</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> regarding safety distance for wind </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">machines</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in Taiwan. Ironically, the information document the Bureau distributed to hearing participants was titled, "Experimental Hearing on Policy of Safety Distance for Wind Machines" yet the hearing will have no effect on policy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The audience had a point. Safety distance of wind machines is an important issue that affects all - the residents living near the wind machine, the environment, Taiwan's source of energy and those who are in the green energy business. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It became quite clear, after all the discussion, that the experimental hearing was not binding at all, and what was said during the hearing, while being recording, might be forever tucked in the back of the government's public document </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">archive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, a lawyer proposed the motion to end the hearing on the spot and have everyone come back when the government officials were more aware of which procedure to follow and for what purpose the hearing is held. Some audience members seconded the motion, but the presiding chair overruled it and insisted to proceed with the experimental hearing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is a waste of everyone's time!", Wang Yun-yi, the Vice President of InfraVest exclaimed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No, it's not" said Echo Lin from the Environmental Jurists Association, "Hearing procedure is an important issue and a problem for this event, and we need to sort things out first before anything can proceed".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The experimental hearing proceeded as the presiding chair wanted. As expected, it became a vent-fest for all parties involved, from township residents, NGO group members and wind power company representatives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My experience as the experimental hearing raised serious doubt in my mind on the sincerity of the administration to address the issue of green energy. If the administration endorses green energy, as President Ma said when he visited the <a href="http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20130810/240303/">wind farm in Penghu</a> a few weeks ago, then the Ministry of Economic Affairs should take the safety issue of wind turbine seriously, as there have been conflicts between wind power companies, the way those companies conduct themselves in townships and the residents living in close proximity of those wind machines. MOEA, EPA and the Bureau of Energy are all aware of this on-going issue, yet only non-binding experimental hearings here held without discussion the extent to which the government agencies would push for any policy regarding safety distance or address the dwindling land mass to erect any more wind turbines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see the struggle for the township residents continue, as the environmental and anti-nuclear energy groups agonize over the the advocacy of and push for green energy, and the government, once again, remain stagnant. It is my sincerely hope that, after all the questions raised and discussion on transparency and procedure, the officials who were present at the meeting would learn something and make the necessary improvement for the next formal public hearing on this issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) The Yuanli Township residents sued InfraVest Wind Power Co. for infringing on the quality of their lives in April, and they asked for the court to order InfraVest to stop building additional wind turbines in their town. The first day of court for the Yuanli residents was yesterday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August 18th was the deadline issued by the Taiwan Rural Front (台灣農村陣線/TRF) for an </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">official government response to the Dapu Borough forced demolition last month. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Predictably, the only responses from the current administration were statements critical of the methods of protest in the past month (Egg and paint throwing, placing the "Yesterday Dapu, Today the government (今天拆大埔, 明天拆政府)" stickers on public gates and walls, and spray painting the sidewalks and public facilities) and the extent to which government buildings need better security. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aside from the series of small protests through the month of July and August, the Taiwan Rural Front also planned two large-scale protests, one in Miaoli County (right in front of the Miaoli County government's building) and one in Ketagalan Boulevard. I wasn't able to attend the music event/funeral for County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung last Friday. From the videos from reporters who were at the scene, the event looked like a success. It was one of the biggest anti-establishment rallies in Miaoli's history, drawing more than one thousand participants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rally was peaceful with an estimated 20,000 participants, larger than the organizer expected. Although the number of participants were much smaller than the "Justice for Corporal Hung" rally a few weeks ago, the energy, compassion and excitement of the crowd was much more evident. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director Ko I-chen (柯一正) and Wang Shau-di (王小隸) went on stage to sing "Do you hear the People Sing?" with a group of Anti-Nuclear Power advocates. Director Wang's presence was especially significant, as she was the daughter of National Chinese Party (KMT) military strongman and mainlander, <a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E7%8E%8B%E6%98%87">Wang Sheng (王昇)</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was surprising to me were the number of self-help groups there were. One after another, members of the self-help groups went on stage to testify in front of rally participants their stories of land grabbing. The speeches were emotionally, especially coming from elderly farmers, who has been farming on their land for decades and then were driven out by the government in the name of "progress", "development" and "modernity". It was also surprising to find the majority of self-help groups came from Miaoli County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the rally came to an end, host and mistress of ceremony, Professor Frida Tsai, asked the participants to march down Zhongshan South Road and relocate to the Executive Yuan for an overnight sit-in. I moved ahead of the marchers to get a better view of the crowd and to take some photographs. At that time, I couldn't help but wonder, how the TRF could symbolically "tear down the government", when there were already hundred of police officers waiting for them in front of the Executive Yuan? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The marchers approached Xuzhou Road (徐州路), and a political science student from the National Taiwan University (NTU) and member of the Taiwan Rural Front asked the crowd to stop moving forward to wait for the rest of the group. From the changing mood and energy in the air, I realized something was about to go down. I looked toward my right at the Ministry of Interior, there were only a hand full of police officers guarding the gate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Incredibly, the students sat in front of the building as the organizers requested. A few eggs were thrown but the behavior was immediately stopped by the organizer. No windows were broken, the gates were intact and no one entered the building to cause any damage to the offices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The TRF protests are the most unpredictable and creative protests I have witnessed here in Taiwan - from the students pretending to be Chinese tourists, so they could approach the Executive Yuan, which is significant and says a lot to the current administration's attitude toward Chinese tourists verses students from its own country, to allowing law enforcement to think the protest would be one location instead of another. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The administration still chooses to not address the issues at hand. Commissioner Liu went into hiding and refused to answer any question from the media. President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that the Miaoli County Government is the appropriate party to handle the current situation in Dapu, and the Miaoli County Government is indicting students and suing them for damage of public property and obstruction of justice. Minister of Interior, Lee Hung-yuan (李鴻源) complained about the occupation while asking the protesters if they would do the same thing to McDonald's. Lee also said there is nothing wrong with the Land Expropriation Act, and it shouldn't be amended. According to Lee, the executive of such Act is the problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly, lets not forget that the Dapu residents whose homes were destroyed and their land taken have yet to receive any compensation from the government and the justice their rightfully deserve. While there are many other cases in Taiwan deserving of attention and advocacy, the Dapu case will be an lingering issue until the government deals with it. The residents are living in rented apartments for the time being. While keeping pressure on the government on Dapu, the TRF is proposing a comprehensive plan to lobby for amendment to legislation, to change government taxing policies and to advocate for those who are ultimately affected by the government's land grabbing policies countrywide, for example, aborigines from Taitung's Red Leaf (紅葉) were invited and traveled six hours on train to attend the rally last Sunday to testify and protest the acquisition of their land to make a hot spring resort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What happened to Public Television System reporter Edd Jhong today at the Executive Yuan was not the first occasion police officers actively barred journalists from doing their job since last year in Taiwan. Police officers were seen aggressively preventing journalists from documenting a protest or physically trying to remove them from the a protest scene or just flat-out deny them entry to cover a breaking story, because their names are not on "the list".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last March, at the forced demolition of the Wang Family's apartment in Shihlin District to make way for an urban renewal project called "Wenlin Yuan (文林苑), police officers shined flash lights at journalists' equipments to prevent them from filming and photographing the removal of protesters who were mainly students, and the demolition of the apartment buildings. Police officers also blocked access to reporters by keeping them away from the area of demolition. (The video of police officers with the flash light can be found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn97kPbydjY">here</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 27th of this year, during the forced demolition of the Huaguang Community, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">five or six police </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">officers were seen surrounding one journalist while attempting to take their cameras from them and dragging them away from the protesting students. Male police officers were also seen following and physically blocking a female reporter from documenting the protest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During another wave of demolition at Huaguang Community on April 24th, the police blocked off the area for demolition twelve hours prior to the destruction, causing some of the residents of Huaguang unable to return to their homes. The same night, a plain clothes police officers guarding the wired gate also wanted to check the journalists' credentials, and if he didn't recognize the media company, they told the reporter that he/she is not on the list and denied them entry. Quite a few journalists had to call their office and have the office verify their identity to the Daan District Police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning before the demolition, Journalists were again asked to prevent their credentials to exchange a press pass issued by the Taipei Prison. Some journalists passed the check, but some were asked to leave. I overheard many journalists complaining, saying they have never experienced such scrutiny before. What is the Ministry of Justice afraid that the journalists would do? Document a demolition that the Ministry claimed so confidently to be completely legal? Or did the government not want the public to see property owners being hassled out of their homes by the civil executioners from the Court without completing their packing, or a home owner sitting on the ground, in front of her belongings and home crying?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, on July 18th, during the forced demolition of the four homes in Dapu Borough of Miaoli County, protesters demonstrated in front of the President's Office. After the police buses arrived but before the police began grabbing the protesters and stuffing them into the police bus, the commanding officer spoke into the microphone and gave order for the other officers to "Encircle the media" and to "Keep them out (from the protesters)". The command escalated the confrontation, now between journalists and the police, as the journalists all tried to still stay on scene to document what happened. I heard the confrontation between Michael Cole and the Two-line-three-star police officer not far behind me, where the police officer told him to leave, because "<a href="http://fareasternpotato.blogspot.tw/2013/07/things-coming-apart-dapu-outrage-as.html">this is not [his] country</a>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 23rd, a reporter from Taiwan Lihpao (台灣立報) was kept from covering the protest of Dapu supporters in front of the Department of Health and Welfare. After presenting his press credential, the police officer still wouldn't let him through and sneered him, <a href="http://www.lihpao.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-131697">"Reporter my fart (記者個屁啦!)"</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, a plain clothes man who refused to provide identification ordered six other police officers to forcibly remove Edd Jhong of PTS from the Executive Yuan courtyard where he was covering the breaking news that more than twenty Dapu Borough supporters entered the premise of the Executive Yuan and threw eggs and paint balls at the EY building. The police's reason for manhandling Jhong? Jhong should've registered with the Executive Yuan's press office first. Jhong replied, "How am I supposed to register when the news is breaking right in front of us!?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The active prevention of journalists from documenting an event is not an isolated incident now. What is also very disconcerting is the presence of plain clothes, unidentified men, who are often more aggressive and physical with protesters and journalists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media freedom is essential to a consolidated, high quality democracy. It is as important as having a free and lively civil society, an autonomous and valued political society, rule of law and core institutions such as political parties, elections, electoral rules and legislatures. The media is the channel through which current events and opinions of the people are formed, transmitted and exchanged. Journalists are essential, because they are the eyes of the citizen, as it is impossible for the citizen to be everywhere, at breaking event to learn about what's happening. An authoritarian regimes would always try to monopolize the media and eliminate the journalist's ability to report what is actually happening, so it is easier for the government to manipulate public opinion toward its favor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recent targeting of journalists is a disconcerting trend. It signals a deterioration of Taiwan's hard-earned democracy and the infringement of the basic rights of its citizens. This kind of behavior by the government and the law enforcement officers it employs should not be tolerated. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20130815/242958/3/%E3%80%90%E7%9F%AD%E7%89%87%E3%80%91%E6%8A%97%E8%AD%B0%E5%A4%A7%E5%9F%94%E5%BC%B7%E6%8B%86%E3%80%80%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85%E9%81%AD%E6%8B%96%E7%88%86%E5%8F%A3%E8%A7%92">Additional video of Edd Jhong's ordeal at the Executive Yuan today.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Update: </span>The <a href="http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2013/new/aug/16/today-life2.htm">Zhongzheng District Police Chief</a>, in response to inquiries over the manhandling of Edd Jhong, said he has no authority over the <a href="http://www.spc.gov.tw/">Special Police Sixth Headquarters</a>, and he also suspected Edd Jhong of throwing paint along with the protesters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Department of Cultural Affairs of the Taipei City Government decided a month ago that the southern wall of Taipei Prison, the Prison Director's Residence, the Public Bath House and twenty Japanese-style house on the east side of the Public Bath House in the Huaguang Community to be historic. The Ministry of Justice will not be able to demolish the identified structures at the end of August. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to the historic sites, a group of volunteers are also working tirelessly to save the plants of the community. Huaguang Community is said to have over fifty different kinds of plants, including trees as old as eighty years old and is habitat to twenty species of birds. Since March, twelve of the ancient trees have died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of July, the remaining residents of Huaguang Community received notice from the Ministry of Justice stating the last round of demolition and eviction will be executed from August 27th to 29th. There are approximately twenty residents left in the community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, residents and former residents of the Huaguang Community went to the Ministry of Justice to protest the fine imposed on them by the government for "illegally profiting" while residing on government land. Residents whose houses were demolished in the previous mouths still face large sums of fine. The residents and former residents either have their bank accounts frozen or have money automatically withdrawn from their accounts. Mr. Wu, for example, who lived in the community for four decades owned a small tailor shop. He was fined six million NT for having his small business there. He now lives with Mr. Chiang (Chiang-bei-bei), who was also a resident of Huaguang but came to Taiwan with the Nationalist Chinese government, in public housing for impoverished individuals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moreover, the Yu family will also be evicted at the end of this month. The second son of the Yu family is the sole breadwinner. His NT$30,000 (US$1,000) per month salary, has to support four members of his family, which include an ailing father who requires constant oxygen support, an older brother who is mentally challenged and their mother. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government imposed a two-million-NT dollar fine on this family, and NT$10,000 (US$333) is automatically taken from the young Mr. Yu's paycheck every month. Without any kind of assistance, Mr. Yu will not be able to afford the NT$13,000 per month rent for public housing while also supporting his family members. So far, there hasn't been any response from any government agency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've written many articles on the plight of Huaguang Community since I began observing the case in February. So far, I have not seen any sincere effort from the government to assist the residents, who are tax, bill paying and hard-working citizens of this country. The residents ended up at the Huaguang Community because of Taiwan and the region's historical past, and the government, under both KMT and DPP administrations, tolerated their residency for decades while collecting business and property taxes, electricity, water and gas money from them. It's inconceivable to me that a government with a president that constantly lauds the two human rights covenants, the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenants of Civil, Social and Cultural Rights (ICCSCR), would be so indifferent and apathetic toward the neediest group of citizens. On the other hand, looking at the recent cases of forced demolition and eviction all in the distorted name of progress and modernity, I shouldn't be surprised at all. </span></div>
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Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-31929940230815263982013-08-05T10:38:00.004+08:002013-08-06T10:24:48.522+08:00The "Big Citizen is Watching You" Protest for the Death of Corporal Hung Chung-Chiu (洪仲丘) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowing there would be a big turnout but not exactly the extent, we arrived at Ketagalan Boulevard an hour before the start of the event on Saturday. As we got out of the taxi, we discovered Ketagalan Boulevard was already filled with people in white. Waves of white shirts continued to move into the area, and soon, vicinity in front of Jing-Fu Gate(景福門), Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall were filled with rally attendees, and late arrivers took up spaces on Renai Road, Xinyi Road and Zhongshan S. Road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the second protest for the death of Army Corporal Hung-Chung-chiu. The first one, held on July 20th in front of the Ministry of National Defense, was attended by approximately 30,000 people. Unsatisfied with speed of investigation and the lack of clarification on the extent to which Corporal Hung was sent to confinement three days before discharge and forced to perform exercise while being denied water, which eventually led to his death, Citizen 1985 organized the second protest and called for a hundred thousand people to join. A quarter of a million turned up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Politicians from two parties, the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Democratic Progressive Party, went on stage to address the crowd, all promised to support reform of the military, especially the military's court system. The crowd answered back with repeated chants of "Keep-Your-Promise (說到做到)!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most moving and heartbreaking moment came when Corporal Hung's family members went on stage to thank the participants for their continuous support and encouragement. Corporal Hung's mother spoke for a few minutes and again called for answers to her son's death and punishment for those responsible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another emotional moment came when the organizer asked family members of other soldiers who died of mysterious death while in service to come on stage to stand together in solidarity. Parents of a few soldiers spoke, including the parents of Chen Jun-ming(陳俊銘), whose body was discovered under his blanket with thirteen stab wounds, and his death was ruled a suicide by the military.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The protest ended with the participants singing the Taiwanese version of "Do you hear the people sing?" while turing on the flashlight on their cell phone to symbolize stars in the sky and providing light for Corporal Hung's spirit to travel to the other world. Again, another incredible sight to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The majority of the participants were young, and for many of them, it was their first time taking to the streets. The composition of the crowd is quite different from the university student protests I have been observing in the past few months. It is more similar to the crowd of the Anti-Nuclear Power rally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Ma Ying-jeou, Minister of National Defense Andrew Yang and former Minister of National Defense Kao Hua-chu all attended Corporal Hung's funeral on the following day (August 4th). After paying his respect at the alter, Ma visited the parents of Hung, who, by tradition, couldn't be at the funeral or bury their son. In the Hungs living room, Ma rambled on for more than twenty minutes while the parents barely made eye contact with him. The Uncle, who has been the family's spokesperson and has been on television for the past month, wanted to express his frustration and demand for further investigation and clarification. As he began to speak, Ma cut himself and asked, "And who are you?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ma was heckled everywhere he went, including on the day of the rally, as he retreated to Alishan with Premier Jiang Yi-huah. Citizen 1985 encouraged rally participant to follow President Ma with the big citizen eye to remind him of his responsibility to the citizens and the people are indeed watching him. Citizen 1985 also encouraged everyone to express his opinion when passing through the building of the Ministry of National Defense. This is the second civil movement to ask citizens to remind government officials of their obligations. The first was the supporters of Dapu Borough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, at the Legislative Yuan, Anti-Nuclear Power supporters and members of Referendum to Save Taiwan Alliance (公投護台灣聯盟) and 908 Taiwanese Nation (908台灣國) managed to remove all the metal gate to the Legislative Yuan and clashed with police officers numerous times, as the Legislative Yuan held its extra session. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than one hundred students from some of the most prominent universities in Taiwan came to the front door of the Legislative Yuan to protest against the Service Trade Agreement the Ma administration signed with China on June 22nd of this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From personal experience, as I used to teach a 8:00-8:50am class before assuming my post in Taiwan, the physical function and intellectual capabilities of most college students at 8 o'clock in the morning are next to none. What I found upon arriving the front gate of the Legislative Yuan; however, are a group of bright-eyed, smiling students already busy working on the logistics of the protest. The students planned the protest before the scheduled public hearing on the Service Trade Agreement at the Legislative Yuan's Internal Administration Committee. The students also request to have permission to attend the public hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were many familiar faces from the Anti-Media Monopoly Movement last year and many new faces as well. Not only were the students worried that the Anti-Media Monopoly Act would be thrown out during the extra legislative session, they are also extremely concerned with the signing of the service pack, which will allow Chinese companies access to various media outlets in Taiwan, such as the print industry, photography industry and graphic design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beginning of the protest was like any other. Students were ask to sit with members of </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">After a series of short speeches and small songs, the students received word that the National Chinese Party legislator, Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), who presided over the meeting rejected their request to send representatives to attend the public hearing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The student leaders pleaded again for the opportunities to participate and were turned down yet again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The students then decided to resort to more drastic measures. Many of them climbed over the front gate of the Legislative Yuan. Since most of the police officers were positioned at the front gate, they were not prepared for the students to go over the gate from all sides. Many students made it to the other side and headed directly toward the legislative chamber. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">While the police inside of the Legislative Yuan gate were busy catching the students, another wave of clash broke up on various places along the gate as more students again attempted to climb over the wall. One police officers </span><a href="http://newtalk.tw/news/2013/07/31/38726.html" style="line-height: 18px;">were seen</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> jumping on top of a pillar and pushing one protesters off. I also observed a few police officers losing their cool while attempting to remove the students from the gate. Even when the commanding officer ordered the lower ranking officers to back off, some were still aggressively moving toward the students, some shoving hard with their shields.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I was behind a group of protesters on the left side of the gate when I observed one member of the special police, called on scene to provide backup and assistance, clamped both of his hands together with his right elbow raised, as he move in on the students. He then started elbowing the students as he pushes his body forward. I moved close to him and said to him in a voice loud enough for him to hear, "Are you even supposed to be doing that? Is this behavior part of the protocol now? Stop elbowing people! You are not supposed to do that!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Legislators are preparing to vote on the Nuclear Power Plant No.4 Referendum Act (核四公投案) in the morning. Members of the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) are sleeping inside the Legislative Yuan for the night with intent to take over the speaker's podium to block the vote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">There were other non-student members present at yesterday's protest. The most prominent one being members of the Taiwanese Hip Hop group, Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤), whom I met on many occasions on the street. Members of the group are dedicated to social causes and would show up at protests to perform or to join in on the protest. I especially enjoy their 2007 songs, "Civil Revolt (官逼民反) and "Your name is Taiwan", which are also the crowd's favorites at protests. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">As the Ma administration pushes forward with the Service Trade agreement and holding public sessions in front of local markets and temples to promote and explain the agreement, one observes an increasing number of academics and members of the industry coming out to oppose the Service Trade Agreement. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The Chair of the Economics Department at the National Taiwan University, Professor Jang Show-ling (鄭秀玲) came out publicly against the Service Trade Agreement, stating the agreement would affect more than one thousand industries and millions of workers in Taiwan. She also accused the Ma government for covering up and being dishonest to the public on the impact of signing such agreement. Professor Jang's powerpoint presentation from her panel discussion on July 25th over the impact of the Service Trade Agreement can be found <a href="http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ntuperc/conference-1-files/20130725_3_1.pdf">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">President Ma Ying-jeou also portrayed the controversy surrounding the signing of the Service Trade Agreement as the battle between those who are spreading rumors and those who try to clarify them. He specifically directed his criticism to "a certain Economic professor from a public university".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the number of academics, students, artists, authors coming forward to voice their opposition to the Service Trade Agreement, the largest opposition party has been visibly absent. Chairman Su Tseng-chang was seen visiting factories and holding discussion sessions with members of different industries to listen to their concerns, but more should come from the opposition in proposing a concrete plan to deal with trade with China or just with China. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further reading:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Associated Press report - <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/scuffles-erupt-over-taiwan-china-trade-pact">"Scuffles erupt over Taiwan-China Trade Pack"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wealth Magazine (財訊) article on why Professor Jang Show-ling, Chairperson of the Department of Economics at the National Taiwan University decided to step forward to oppose the Service Trade Agreement: </span><br />
<a href="http://www.wealth.com.tw/index2.aspx?f=401&id=3381" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">媽媽教授鄭秀玲 - 洗頭洗上火線 看服貿內容「簡直要昏倒」- 不說出來睡不著覺</a><br />
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<a href="http://disp.cc/b/163-6fyI" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lazy Man's Guide(懶人包) to Service Trade Agreement. </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four days after the demolition of the Miaoli Dapu residents’ homes, activists, supporters and the residents came to the President’s Office again and this time, to issue an ultimatum to the central government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activists and residents brought the remains of the Chang Pharmacy and displayed them on Ketagalan Boulevard. Old photographs of the Chang family - Mr. and Mrs. Chang’s wedding, Mrs. Chang with her first born, family vacation and good old times. There was also a pot and a pan, a water flask, a bowl, legal documents from the on-going lawsuit with the county government, and Mrs. Chang’s ripped and torn clothes – one of her favorite shirt, and another she didn’t have a chance to wear before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs. Chang, or Peng Hsiu-chun(彭秀春), was being interviewed by reporters when I arrived. I was relieved to see her looking better than I expected; however, I also know she is doing everything she can to hold herself together, just as she has done in the past three years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The press conference started on 10 o’clock. The organizer asked Peng to say something everyone. Mrs. Chang told the horror story of leaving her home in the morning and coming back in the evening, finding the home she lived and raised three children in demolished and all of her properties gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Miaoli County Government’s website, County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung(劉政鴻), in a press release on the July 18<sup>th</sup> demolition, stated the county government has hired “professional moving company” to pack the Chang’s belongings and keeping them in storage. What is even more outrageous is the money the Miaoli County Government offered the Chang’s for their land, NT$ 24,2000, is the same amount, the county government is charging the Changs to demolish their homes. In other words, the Chang family would receive no compensation for the government taking their land and destroying their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On demolition day, the workers were seen packing what they perceived as valuables, like refrigerator, television and other appliances. Remains of the Chang’s house were trucked over to three different dumpsites 30 minutes from their homes and dumped on the premise, along with personal items the Changs had. Volunteers and Peng Hsiu-chun dug and sorted through the rubbles all weekend in hopes to salvage some of her belongings. Fortunately, Peng was able to find a bag of her hold photographs, a pair of old gold cufflinks, some old coin collections from her children and other things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Members of the Laid-Off Workers Alliance(關廠工人陣線) were also at the press conference to lend their support. Taiwan Rural Front (台灣農村陣線) spokeswoman, Professor Frida Tsai(蔡培慧), issued an ultimatum to the central government, especially to President Ma Ying-jeou, Vice President Wu Den-yih, Premier Jiang Yih-huah. Professor Tsai said the Dapu residents and their supporters are giving the central government until August 18<sup>th</sup>, exactly one month to the date of demolition, to respond with solution to resolve the matter; otherwise, the group calls for supporters to “Tear down the government”. The group chanted the movement’s slogan, “Today Dapu, Tomorrow the government (今天拆大埔, 明天拆政府)”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These words of former Peruvian President Óscar R. Benavides seems fitting in describing what has been happening in Taiwan in the past few weeks with regards to the Dapu demolition case. Law enforcement at the direction of the National Security Bureau have arrested professors, students and supporters for demonstrated at locations where the president, vice president, the premier and the Miaoli county commissioner attended events. The charges ranged from violation of Public Safety Act, obstruction to police business to violation of the Parade and Assembly Act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday (July 23rd), supporters of Dapu residents went to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (衛生福利署), where President Ma and Premier Jiang were scheduled to be at the opening of the new ministry to voice their discontent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I arrived Ta Cheng Street (塔街) in Tatung District, there were already tremendous police presence. As soon as I approach Ta Cheng Street, a line of police officers blocked my path, as scuffle broke out simultaneously in different surrounding area.</span></div>
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“Are you a student?” one of the police officers asked me.<br />“No, I’m not a student”, I said.<br />“You’re not a student?” he asked again, looking me up and down.<br />“Really, I'm not a student, but I’m happy that you thought I look like one”, I said jokingly. <br />“It’s those professors,” he said to me, “they bring these students here, create all kinds of ruckus and they don’t take responsibilities for the students behavior. There are formal procedures to follow, and they are allowed to express their opinion in the designated area”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As the cop was finishing his sentence, I heard loud chanting and four police officers carrying Hung Chung-yen(洪崇晏), a student of the National Taiwan University, from the other side of the street and dropped him on the ground right in front of me. Chung-yen got up and immediately held up his banner again and started chanting, “Rebuilt Dapu!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I returned to the line of cops and started snapping photos of students being chased, surrounded, pushed back and carried away by cops. I also saw the police erected the warning sign to ask the protesters to leave. The protesters didn’t listen and kept chanting, “Today (you) tear down Dapu, Tomorrow (we) tear down the government!” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Ay!” I heard a long sigh coming from a skinny cop standing in the police line. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What’s going on? You seem to have something on your mind”, I said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If I were off work, I’d go with them,” the cop said, “I'll tell you one thing, I am moved by is the students’ passion and determination”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was completely surprised by this police officer’s candidness. The same police officers would later told Hung Hsiang (洪箱)</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the chairwoman of the Wanboa Community Development Association, that his heart was with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another more senior looking police officer also told me he has seen increasing protests in recent years and months. "It's ok, I'm out here standing around, so I can lose some weight", he said. I have to say, most of the police officers I met were polite and professional. Some are even very helpful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then heard loud female scream, and I saw Chung-yen, who was protesting further ahead fell back to the ground. The police officers prevented me from approaching the crowd to investigate, but a few minutes later, an ambulance sped toward us. As we moved to the side of the road, I realized the ambulance was for Chung-yet. I found out later that Chung-yet had split his head open on the sidewalk, after the police tackled him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The line of police blocking me was called toward the Ministry building where the president was, because more protesters have managed to move closer to Ministry building. As I moved with the police toward the protesters, I saw two police officers dragging Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆), the convener of the Youth Alliance Against Media Monsters, away from the crowd. Fen-fan threw both his hands up, shouting the slogan, as the police dragged him away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also learned later, the police also dragged Professor Hsu Shih-jung (徐世榮) of the National Chengchi University away rather brutally, once to move him even further away from the police barricade and the second time, to move him to a police vehicle putting him under arrest. The police said at the time of arrest Professor Hsu was in violation of the Public Safety Act. Just Professor Hsu was sitting on the sidewalk and chanted a few slogans as the president’s motorcade went by? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prosecutor released Professor Hsu twelve hours later without charging him with any crime due to insufficient evidence. <br /><br />What I also discovered, after monitoring so many protests in the past months, is the presence of plain clothes unidentified men at these protests. Most of them look mean and thuggish. I’ve seen them at the demolition of Huaguang Community, and I saw them again yesterday. Those men not only refused to identify themselves when asked, they were also extremely aggressive and rough with the young protesters. They’d push, shove, drag and pull the protesters to remove them from the scene. I saw a man in a white t-shirt pick up a small female student and threw her against a wired fence at the Huaguang Community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was also an unidentified man who gave the order to arrest Professor Hsu and to drag the students away. The same man also refused to identify himself. The students later tracked him down as a commander from the Tatung Police District.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many academics, including law professors have signed petitions condemning the behavior of the police and the National Security Bureau. As of now, the list of names continues to grow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Undeterred by yesterday’s events, the students were at it again today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After finding out the Miaoli County Commissioner was scheduled to come to the Legislative Yuan to promote the pears of Miaoli County, the students gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan to protest. Legislative assistants also came out of the gates of the Legislative Yuan to demonstrate support for the Dapu residents. Commissioner Liu didn't show up at his own event, but reporters later discovered he was hiding inside the Legislative Yuan barber shop, getting a hair, a massage and having his earwax removed. Liu also told reporters he has no regret tearing down the Dapu residents’ homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were two other protests today. One in front of the Kuomintang headquarters, where the central standing committee was meeting, and another one at Howard Civil Service International House where Vice President Wu Den-yih(吳敦義) was an attendee to an event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dapu supporters have promised to bloom like wild flowers (遍地開花), and they are keeping their promise. The protesters also demand four things from the government:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Apologies from President Ma, Vice President Wu, Premier Jiang and County Commissioner Liu and compensate the victims of forced demolition.<br />2) Return the acquired land to the residents.<br />3) Investigate the legality and possible corruption involving County Commissioner Liu’s development projects.<br />4) Amend the Land Expropriation Act to protect the public rights<br /><br />Tomorrow, film directors and other members of the art industry will hold a press conference in support of the Dapu residents. <br /><br />The protests for Dapu demonstrated that civil society in Taiwan is very much alive and well. The quality of Taiwan’s democracy is maintained through civil and political participations like these. This is one fortunate thing that stemmed from the tragedy of Dapu. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be continued…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early
Saturday morning, tens of thousands protesters, most of them wearing white,
held a protest rally in front of the Ministry of National Defense (MND). The protesters demanded MND to provide truth
under of a young soldier’s horrible death at the hands of his superiors. The protesters were unsatisfied with the
speed of MND’s investigation and the lack of arrests three weeks after Corporal
Hung’s death. The event was sponsored by
an activist group named “Citizens 1985”, with 1985 as the number to the Ministry
of National Defense’s anonymous tip and complaint line. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past few
weeks, the death of Army Corporal
Hung Chung-chiu (洪仲丘) of the 542<sup>nd</sup>
Brigade, a graduate student from the National Chung Kung University’s Department of Transportation and Communication
Management Science, is the most talked about and discussed news in Taiwan right
now. Not only does the case involves military officers violating protocol when sending Corporal Hung to confinement,
it also involved cruel and excessive punishment imposed on Hung, even after
he raised his hand several times to request a break. And worst, the drilling officers denied him water after
Hung begged for some on several occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cause of Hung’s
death, according to one of Taiwan’s most respected media examiner, Kao Ta-Cheng (高大成),
who also attended Hung’s autopsy at the request of the victim’s family, was
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), which was triggered by
rhabdomyolysis and heat exhaustion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rhabdomyolysis is
the breakdown of muscle fiber, which leads to the release of muscle fiber, a
protein named “Myoglobin” into the blood stream. Myoglobin is damanging to the kidney, and
rhabdomyolysis is caused by heat exhaustion.
When DIC is caused by rhabdomyolysis, it leads to the formation of small
blood clots inside of the blood vessels throughout the body. As these clots destroys the coagulation
proteins and platelets, blood is unable to clot and abnormal bleeding occurs under
the skin and through the body. According
to Dr. Kao, Corporal Hung received 12000CC of blood transfusion at the
hospital, which amount to double an average adult’s blood volume. In other words, Corporal Hung’s body no
longer was able to clot his own blood.
Upon arrival, Corporal Hung’s body temperature was 44℃, where 38℃ is already considered as feverish. When one’s body temperature is around 41℃,
the possibility of death increased to 30%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father, who was
a graduate of Kaohsiung Medical University, continues to shake his head as he watched Dr. Kao’s presentation on Corporal Hung’s physical condition on television. “The boy died a horrible death,” my father
exclaimed, "This shouldn't have happened".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The official
investigation by the military’s prosecutor’s office is still on going. As of now, the Vice Commander of the 542<sup>nd</sup>
Brigade and staff sergeants were detained.
There is also suspicion of military personnel tampering with the
evidence, which include a key video of Hung’s last days and the minutes leading
up to Hung’s dispatch to the hospital.
The country eagerly awaits the official investigative report from the
military’s prosecutor’s office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we approached Bo-Ai
Road on Saturday morning, one can already hear the loud sound from the activity
truck. Passersby wore various white shirts moving in unison toward the front door of the Ministry of National
Defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I arrived the
designated area of the protest, there were already a lot of people there. The composition of the crowd consisted mainly
young men. There were also young women
mixed in the crowd, but another very visible group of participants were
mothers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spotted Huang Mama,
Chairwoman of the Human Rights for the Armed Forces (<span lang="ZH-TW">軍中人權促進會</span>), whose son also
died of very suspicious circumstances, standing near me. Our eyes met, and I greeted her briefly and
utter a few words of encouragement. She
nodded, smiled and continued monitoring the protest. Through the protest, I saw her facial
expressions changed from contemplative to smile to pride and sometimes to
sadness with tears in her eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were also many parents of soldiers who died under suspicious circumstances at the protest. One of the most visible was Mr. and Mrs. Chen, whose son reportedly committed suicide under a blanket, in his dorm room with others sleeping right next to him. According to the ministry, Mr. and Mrs. Chen's son used a box cutter to sever his right carotid artery and wind pipe, three times, and then cut his own arms ten times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very quickly, Bo-Ai Road was taken over by
participants with no space to move. The
participants extended to as far as I could see.
It was an incredible scene. At
around 11am, the organizer announced that the number of participants had
exceeded 30,000 thousand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the skit, where young men doing push-ups begged for water with the drill sergeants loudly refused, organizers and
participants also sang songs for the armed forces with modified lyrics. The actors also recited the water verse from the military before drinking water several times. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The signs of this rally were less colorful than the other rallies, but the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">messages were clear. The public wants the truth without any coverup. </span></div>
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Corporal Hung’s uncle, who, since the tragedy, has become one of the family’s
spokesperson (another one is Hung’s older sister), went on the activity truck
to thank the participants. The rally
attendees responded with words of encouragement, cheer and applaud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very soon after the organizer made the announcement that the
attendees would stay in front of MND for as long as it requires to have someone
with high enough ranking to come out and receive the petition letter consisted of
three demands, the organizer informed the participants that someone significant has arrived to
receive the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then saw a solemn looking Andrew Yang (楊念祖) climbing up the truck. The organizer
announced to the crowd that it was the deputy minister who would collect the
plead letter. The crowd erupted in
cheer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew Yang accepted the letter from the
organizer and addressed the crowd in a determined voice. He asked the crowd to give the MND once more
chance to properly conduct its investigation and to right the wrong from the
time on. He promised justice for Corporal
Hung and his family. Deputy Minister
Yang then apologized on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were reasonably anger from the crowd; however, I also sense the feeling of support for the Ministry of National Defense and especially members of the military, as many commented that members of the military are the ones who were, are and will defend Taiwan against external threats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rally ended on a positive note as the
participants disbanded for a few hours of rest in preparation of the vigil for
Corporal Hung and other soldiers who died under suspicious circumstances while
serving in the military. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About seven thousand showed up for the candle
light vigil, including Corporal Hung’s older sister and uncle. The road in front of the Legislative Yuan was
filled with participants. The
participants used candles to form the characters for “Justice”, “Human Rights”
and Truth” and to surround Corporal Hung’s portrait. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As investigation of Corporal Hung’s death continues,
there is some hope for more transparency of the treatment of members of armed
forces and the call to end corruption.
President Ma went to visit Corporal Hung’s family yesterday as he
promised a thorough investigation and to reveal the truth of Hung’s death. Lets see if President Ma keeps his promise on this
occasion, his past records notwithstanding. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Ketty W. Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13137884584424243919noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93589841580817541.post-60585756695857168682013-07-21T18:41:00.003+08:002013-07-25T08:20:03.911+08:00Standing on the Side of the Egg - Forced Demolition of Dapu homes a government sanctioned robbery?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Back off!</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back
off!</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give her some air!</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give her some air!” as a blue shadow
fell right in front of me, I heard a man scream from my right side.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reporters, protesters and shielded police officers were still pushing toward one another.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moments earlier, I saw the same blue shirt
sprinted from my left toward the Presidential Office, followed by a blood
curdling scream I would never be able to forget for the rest of my life, “My
home!</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are tearing my home!</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s too late now! My home!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was Mrs. Chang (Peng Hsui-chun <span lang="ZH-TW">彭秀春</span>), whose home was
being demolished by the Miaoli County Government, as the protest in front of the
President’s office was happening. As Mrs. Chang ran toward the Presidential Office, she was met
with several police shields, pushing aggressively and pressing down on her body. Mrs. Chang's face and hair were completely wet. It was difficult for me to tell whether the droplets on her face were tears or sweat. Probably both. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slim and frail Mrs. Chang was
overwhelmed by the force from the police shields. She stumbled and fell at my feet. She soon lost consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There really wasn't any time for me to think, as I observed a group of men, some with shields but mostly with cameras and other media equipment descended on Mrs. Chang, attempting to snap a few shots of her laying on the ground. Then, a small, elderly man (later I found out he
was from Miaoli) came out of nowhere and grabbed my left hand with such firm grip I thought he would
crush my hand bone. The small man planted his legs firmly into the ground while holding out his arms and yelled, "Back off! Give her some air!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I held onto the
elderly man’s hand and tried my hardest to not fall on Mrs.
Chang, as the weight of reporters and their equipments piling on my back. I could feel my old left shoulder injury hurting, and my left arm felt like it was being pulled out of socket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The minutes felt like an eternity, as the
elderly man and I held hands until the crowd receded I’d pay the price of achy back, legs and arms
for the next two days, but it’s ok. I wast about to let anyone inflict more injuries on this poor woman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of where one stands on the demolition, the fact is, Mrs. Chang and his husband had been living under tremendous stress for the past three years, afraid something bad would eventually happen to the home and land they've been living in for the past three decades. Mr. Chang now suffers from severe depression and is now also exhibiting the symptoms of paranoia. Mr. Chang has been committed to a hospital in Taipei since early July, after his psychological and physical break down after being dragged away from the Executive Yuan the evening of July 3rd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dapu Borough residents received notice from the county government last month, asking them to either evict themselves
by the 5th of July or suffer the consequence of forced demolition. The
central government, specifically, Vice President Wu Den-yih’s (吳敦義) denied he has broken any promises, even as the official document from the Executive Yuan stated the residents of Dapu were to keep their land and homes. In a predictable manner, Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻), taking Wu's words as permission to destroy, utilized the most despicable strategy and means possible to demolish the residents homes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As expected, while the Dapu residents and
their supporters came to Taipei for a press conference to plead with the
central government to stop demolition, Liu sent in hundreds of police officers as enforcement,
firefighters and workers with heavy machinery to raze the resident’s
homes. Without even allowing the residents to pack their personal belongings, the demolition crew destroyed
the homes in less than two hours. </span></div>
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took over Ketagalan Boulevard and moved their way toward the President’s
Office. The police attempted to separate
and block the protesters with no avail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A group of students carrying a giant plastic sheet with slogan and painting of
Dapu sat down right in the middle of Ketagalan Boulevard while chanting, “Keep your
promise! Keep the Houses! (<span lang="ZH-TW">信守承諾</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">原屋保留</span>!)”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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group of protesters were able to make their way to the Presidential
Office, also chanting the same slogan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protesters clashed with the police several times before Mrs. Chang showed up
and was knocked unconscious. After the
ambulance took her to the hospital, the police called in two police trucks to
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was especially rough with the protesters that day. The commanding officer told the police
officers to circle the protesters and keep members of the media from the circle, sparking
complaints from the reporters. Then, the
police officers took the young protesters away one by one, stuffing them inside
the police bus. Many of the protesters
opened the windows on the bus, so they can continue to display their protest
signs and chant their slogans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lots of tears at the Presidential Office protest. It was difficult not to be moved by some of the scenes, even as an observer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toward the end of the protest, Professor
Frida Tsai(蔡培慧) of the Taiwan Rural Front (台灣農村陣線) was beside herself. With tears streaming down her face, she
called for Taiwanese to come forward to protest the cruel, inhumane and illegal
way Commissoner Liu has destroyed the Dapu residents’ homes. She also called for guerrilla-style protests from then on. She said, what was
being torn down was not only the Dapu residents’ homes but Taiwan’s democracy
as well. Professor Tsai also said academics, lawyers, students and the Dapu residents have always honored Taiwan’s democratic
procedures. They went through negotiations,
filed lawsuits, protested peacefully and received official documents from the
Executive Yuan promising the residents their homes, however, the government and
officials kept none of its promises. Therefore,
it is now time for the protesters to adopt more drastic strategies and impose their own rules to let the government know such
behavior is intolerable. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Update] - Students and other Dapu supporters followed the President, Vice President, the Premier and the County Commissioner everywhere they go all weekend. They held placards, shouted and threw hog feces and eggs at the officials. Four students went to Commissioner Liu's home at 6am and threw paint at his home. Liu was said to come out of the balcony in a fury, calling the student activists "Shameless (無恥). <a href="http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010374194">Yang Ru-men (楊儒門), the Rice Bomber (白米炸彈客)</a> also threw a paint bomb at the President's Office on Friday night. </b></span></div>
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of Mrs. Chang and her son going through the rubble to collect their personal
belongings were gut-wrenching. Legally,
before any eviction, the enforcer needs to allow the evicted reasonable time to
pack their belongings before eviction, and in this case, demolition. County Commissioner Liu did none of
that. Mrs. Chang and the other Dapu
residents didn’t even have time to pack a change of clothes or even their
underwear, as they said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In what’s
left of the Chang’s home, one could see blankets, quilts (Mrs. Chang’s hobby),
teddy bear, children’s books, blouses and Mr. Chang’s suits, all soaked in
mud. On Friday afternoon, as Mrs. Chang,
her son and their supporters were trying to recover what they could from the
rubble, Commissioner Liu again sent in police officers to surround the pile of
rubber to prevent the Changs from obtaining their property and documenting
their loss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protesters went in front of the Kuomintang Headquarters on Friday night for another
protest, where they threw eggs at the KMT headquarters building. Ma’s campaign office for his chairmanship,
where he is running unopposed, was also egged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A student representative from Tainan spoke at the evening press conference in front of the KMT headquarters and quoted world renowned Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami (村上春樹), to explain her participation in the protest. She said, "在高大堅硬的墻和雞蛋之間, 我永遠站在雞蛋那一方 (Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg)". As soon as she said the word "egg", eggs started flying before the police officers were able to put up the egg-net. Most of us ended up in the line of fire. I am very glad; however, those weren't stinky eggs like the ones the Miaoli Yuanli resident threw at the Ministry of Economic Affairs a few weeks prior. That kind of stench can stick with one for days. </span></div>
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and her supporters continued their sit-in at the leftover 0.3 ping of her
property, as the students trailed the four major government officials responsible for the Dapu demolition. The last I heard, event schedules of the four were being posted on social media to encourage citizens to join the protest.</span></div>
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compassion and humanity from other citizens.
Many people went to Dapu on their own to help the Changs and others
salvage their property. Many donated
money, and many also showed up to volunteer to stay with the families, as their
recover from the shock and trauma. Many
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visited a paper factory near her home in Taichung. This woman had no protest experiences and
being a mother of three prevented her from participating in any of the
protests. However, when she learned
President Ma was going to attend an event at a venue approximately ten minutes
from her house, she decided to speak her mind.
As she and her young son saw the President coming toward them, the young
mother screamed, “Mr. President! Hi Mr.
President!” As President Ma approached
her, she shouted to him in her trembling voice, “Today you torn down Dapu, Tomorrow we tear down the
government!” President Ma was quickly whisked by
security while looking stunned. The
young mother later posted an entry on social media saying she sincerely hopes others can
join her. A few celebrities and film
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been a dozen protests throughout Taiwan, targeting the President,
Vice President, the Premier and the County Commissioner. The Taiwan Rural Front and supporters of Dapu
vowed the protest will keep happening until the issue is resolved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The case of
Dapu has proven to be one of the most difficult cases I’ve monitored since
2010. Imagines of excavators bulldozing
and destroying the Dapu farmers’ crop two weeks before harvest still play
vividly in my head. Words of Mrs. Chu,
who committed suicide by drinking herbicide, still resonant. Now, Mrs. Chang’s brown sugar green bean
soup, her humble demeanor and soft voice will also forever be with me, along with
her heartbreaking scream, pleading for the powers that be to spare the home she
worked so hard for and raised her family in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dapu constitutes government-sanctioned
robbery. The residents whose homes were being demolished were not appropriately compensated. NT$900,000 will not allow the Chang family to start a new life with a new house and store. The central government
tolerated and endorsed the Miaoli County Commissioner’s vendetta against hard-working
citizens who refused to participate in the commissioner and his cohorts’ endeavor in their distorted interpretation of democracy, modernity and progress. The case of Dapu, like many other on-going cases, is an embarrassment to Taiwan’s democracy and to Taiwan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, Miaoli County government placed half-page ads titled, "The county government has the obligation to its residents to provide a safe road", in Taiwan's major newspapers, Liberty Times, United News Daily, China Times and Apple Daily. The ads reportedly costed four million dollars total. The ads accused Mr. and Mrs. Chang of the Chang Pharmacy (張藥房) of disregarding public road safety with their insistence to not demolish their own homes and move out. The ad also included a photograph of an 18-wheeler making an U-turn, crossing several lanes of traffic, as evidence of the Chang's home preventing smooth traffic flow. What the ad didn't include, was the Miaoli County Government sent another 18-wheeler three days ago to test that same corner, and the truck successfully made an U-turn without a problem. The students taped the traffic test <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvz11DwCvH4">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot has happened in the Dapu Village of Miaoli County in between and since the demonstration last weekend. Student supporters formed watch groups to guard the homes of the residents. Someone from the watch group always stays awake and would notify the others if he sees demolition crew or notice any police presence. Patrollers in cars or on mopeds are also monitoring the surrounding area for suspicious activities. That's how things stand for now in Dapu. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some notes on what has been happening in the past week. It is by no means everything that happens, as the situation is complicated and ever-changing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it has become evident that the decision flip-flops, and the different versions of stories from the Vice President, the Premier and the County Commissioner in the past week were all smokescreens to the real decision and final on Dapu village, which is evict the residents and demolish their homes no matter what. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 4th, soon after the demonstration that led to clash between the students and the police, Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) was said to place a call to Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) and asked him to <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/07/05/2003566377">suspend demolition</a> of the four families' homes, pending yet another government official meeting. Wu then told the media that he <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/07/06/2003566482">has never broken any promises</a>, and the homes would not be demolished on July 5th. The media was quick to report Wu's statement as a "dramatic turning point" for the Dapu residents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wu's statement did nothing to relinquish the Dapu residents' anguish. The student advocates quickly pointed out that the official document issued by the Miaoli county government never specified any date for demolition. The July 5th deadline was only for the residents to demolish their homes on their own. If the residents failed to do so, the county government would the demolish their homes by force. The county government is also charging the residents a demolition fee. For example, the county government requested the Changs to pay NT$242,000 by September 15th, for the government to tear down their shop and home for the past three decades. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 5th, more than 1,000 students and supporters drove, chartered buses and took trains to Miaoli for another demonstration at the homes of the residents whose homes the county government is determined to demolish. The county government now says the demolition is necessary due to "public safety" concerns, more specifically traffic safety. The county government alleges the four houses are in the way of a road-widening project, and if the homes were not demolished, traffic accidents are bound to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Individuals came from as far as Kaohsiung and Taitung to lend their support to the Dapu residents. Mr. Chang of the Chang Pharmacy (張藥房) and his son broke down in tears several times during the demonstration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that same day, Mr. Chu Bing-kun (朱炳坤) received another official notice of demolition from the county government. This time, the demolition notice included the small convenience store his mother committed suicide in three years ago. Upon learning the government's attempt to demolish the store, Mr. Chu became extremely emotional and swore he would fight to the end to protect his property. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, when reporters called the county government for verification, the county government official told the reporters that they merely made a typo of the door number of the home that is to be demolished. When the reporter asked if the county government would apologize to Mr. Chu for their mistake, as Mr. Chu was scared of out his wits, the government official hung up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a buddhist prayer to the gods, the protesters moved to County Commissioner Liu's home in Houlong Township. Liu's home is located in the area designated for the Miaoli High-speed Rail Station. The County Commissioner applied for permission for his own home not to be demolish under the reason that his home is an residential artifact (古蹟建築) and was granted permission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Commissioner Liu's only intention is to preserve his ancestral home, no one would blame him. However, Commissioner Liu was also seen on a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBlAvXjvRk">video</a> answering question from a Miaoli County legislator, on Jun 27th, that the acquisition of the land in Dapu would generate NT$200 billion (US$666 million) for the county, and the entire </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chunan Township project would help generate NT$150 billion (US$5 billion). Commissioner Liu said he </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plans to sell the land he acquired, including the land surrounding the HSR area, after the HSR came through and the price of the land in the surrounding area has risen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA9yBjEWIDQ">video</a>, County Commissioner Liu was seen telling another legislator not to worry, because he would "give birth to a lot more land" (for the county to sell to repay the debt).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the evening of July 5th, the Dapu residents and their supporters learned the central government would not step in to prevent the county commissioner from demolishing the residents' homes. Vice President Wu told County Commissioner Liu to "handle the the case properly, since the county government is in charge of the project". Wu also insisted that the government did not overturn the decision to preserve the four homes and said he expected the county government to seek consensus with the residents involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, Executive Yuan's spokesperson Cheng Yi-wun (鄭麗文) said in a nonchalant manner at the EY's press conference that "there was no decision whatsoever at the meeting whether the four homes should remain or be destroyed". (The audio of the press conference, where the spokeswoman was weirdly bubbly and chuckled from time to time can be found <a href="http://picosong.com/R44H/">here</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), who has been somewhat silent on the issue, now also said, the matter is at the discretion of the local government. The Executive Yuan, said Jiang, will give the county government a free hand to carry out the <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/07/07/2003566538/1">demolition</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With permission from the central government, county commissioner Liu now says he is determined to demolish those homes and acquire the land. Liu also taunted the residents by <a href="http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130706/237127.htm">saying</a>, "The Miaoli people couldn't stand by and watch those who acted so pitiful and crying on TV to garner sympathy and demonize the county government. Regardless, I will demolish those houses".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday (July 8th), Miaoli politicians mobilized 1000+ people to attend a press conference to support the county commissioner. The press conference felt more like an election rally than an occasion for the Miaoli County government to explain its position to the press. Watching the crowd chanting in unison with their fists raised reminded me of a lynch mob of the American south, from the part of history that's shameful to most Americans, including myself. They were out for blood, because how dare these small business owners and farmers dare to say no to the county commissioner? Who has been portraying himself as the savior of Miaoli, the one who will bring in big companies, new residents and jobs and above all, "modernity" and "progress". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the press conference attendee wore the KMT "battle" vest, and some wore the same t-shirts. Most were middle aged and older.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One should be reminded that during Commissioner Liu's reign, he acquired and developed more than 30 plots of land for industrial and factory use; however, most remained unused and unoccupied, yet, he continues to acquire more land from the residents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the press conference on several occasion, the Miaoli County Council speaker, Yu Chung-tien (游忠鈿), led the chant, "Go Commissioner Liu! (縣長加油!)" to encourage the county commissioner. Yu also said it is the county council's job to mobilize the people who are supportive of demolition, and there it doesn't make sense for the government to not demolish those homes simply because those people protested. Both Yu and the head of the Chunan residents representative council, Lin Shu-wen (林樹文) said they plan to bring 50 busloads of people to Taipei for a counter-demostration. Lin said <a href="http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT2/8008513.shtml">the reason he decided to speak up</a> is because Taiwan has become too democratic but the voice of the majority who supported the demolition remained unheard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems to me that Speaker Yu, Head Council Lin and County Commissioner Liu unsurprisingly lack the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">basic understanding of democracy and the rights of individual in a democracy. Just because one is able to mobilize more people to show up at a press conference to agree to demolish four families homes doesn't lend the decision any legitimacy. In today's newspaper ad, the Miaoli government also contends that the Changs have a house elsewhere, so they shouldn't object the demolition of their current home. The issue here isn't whether the Changs have another home or another ten homes. If the Changs do not wish to sell the government their home at the price determined by the government, they don't have to, as the land and house were bought by the money they earned on their own from their pharmacy. To follow Liu's logic, anyone in this society can start a survey, in the name of public interest, to take votes from individuals to decide, say, Terry Gou of Foxconn give up half of his money to be distributed among individuals living below the poverty line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even if the Changs home will indeed block traffic in the future, the government should offer them reasonable compensation, so the Chang and start their lives elsewhere. As of now, the law doesn't require the government to offer market price when it acquires a citizen's property. There many other problems with Liu's "public interest" theory. I am only mentioning a few. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's also necessary to mention here that a former China Times reporter, who now works at NewTalk, discovered Mr. Lin also owns a land acquisition and development company with its office less than 100 meters from the Chang pharmacy. Conflict of interest here? Mr. Lin has since removed the plaque with his political title from the window of the office and is now saying the company is not his and he only borrows the office space for the purpose of constituents service. Some local residents came forward and pointed out that the "friend" who is listed as the owner of the company is actually Mr. Lin's second son.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, if one takes a walk or go for a car ride in the Dapu and Houlong area, one would constantly see ads spray painted on walls or placards advertisement for land development companies seeking to acquire land from the residents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this reminds me of the wild west in American's history, where the sheriff and his cohorts rule the town and dominated the town's resources and funds. Anyone who dares to oppose them would inadvertently suffer dire consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2013/new/jul/10/today-life3.htm?Slots=Life">Liberty Times</a> reported yesterday Mr. Chang of the Chang Pharmacy was sent to the hospital to receive psychological treatment after suffering some kind of nervous break down. I heard about the news the day before yesterday but was hoping the press doesn't pick the news up, as I feel Mr. Chang should be left alone for a while. It's been an extremely stressful three weeks for him, his family and the other residents, and they were already living under constant worry and fear in the past three years. Most of them have been taking antidepressant and sleeping pills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we speak, students and supporters of Dapu are holding vigils outside of the residents homes. They vow to continue guarding the houses until they couldn't anymore. President Ma Ying-jeou finally commented today that he also held the same position as Wu and Jiang, that the local government is responsible in settling the issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am wondering, though, with permission from the President, Vice President and the Premier, why doesn't Commissioner Liu just go ahead and forcibly demolish the homes as he promised? Why have the 18-wheeler do a test turn? And why have the 1000-persons "press conference"? Why the survey (with horribly formulated questions)? And why spent millions of dollars placing ads in newspapers? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Typhoon Soulik approaching, it is unlikely the demolition will happen this week. Will keep a close eye on what happens next week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Miaoli Dapu Incident (大埔事件) was the first social movement I followed and monitored when I returned to Taiwan after a few years of absence. I was intrigued by the number of youths and students involved in the rallies and demonstration for the Dapu farmers. The composition of the demonstrations was very different from the typical protests, where busloads of betelnut-chewing, chain-smoking and older protesters parachute from the south to Taipei to protest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon after that summer, I decided to apply for a visiting professor position with a Taiwanese university, so I can have an extended stay in Taiwan to conduct more research on Taiwan's democratic development and to further understand Taiwan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On June 28th, 2010, the Miaoli County Commissioner, Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) orderedthe excavation of farmland in the Dapu Village (大埔), without giving the farmers any notice. Many residents of Dapu Village formed the Dapu Self-Help Organization (大埔自救會) to campaign against the county government's plan to take over their farmland to make way for the Jhunan (竹南) Science Park expansion project. The Miaoli County government claimed it has completed the legal process of taking over the land, without the farmers turning in their deed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The imagines of the excavators turning over rice paddies of the farmers who refused to surrender their land, two weeks prior to harvest, and the heavy police presence at the scene preventing the farmers, most elderly, from going in their farm to stop the excavators, shocked the nation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 3rd, one of the elderly farmer, the 73-year-old Mrs. Chu Feng-min (朱馮敏), committed suicide by drinking herbicide, as she felt completely helpless and powerless in stopped the county government from taking her home and the land she worked her whole life for. Upon hearing the news, then-Premier Wu <a href="http://pnn.pts.org.tw/main/2010/08/03/%E5%90%B3%E9%99%A2%E9%95%B7%EF%BC%8C%E8%AB%8B%E8%81%BD%E8%81%BD%E6%9C%B1%E9%A6%AE%E6%95%8F%E9%98%BF%E5%AC%A4%E4%BB%8A%E5%B9%B42%E6%9C%88%E6%98%AF%E6%80%8E%E9%BA%BC%E8%AA%AA%E7%9A%84%EF%BC%9F/">commented</a>, "I understand this woman suffers from chronic diseases, maybe even depression, so I don't know the reason for her suicide…regardless, I am very sorry".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dapu residents and their supporters held demonstrations in front of the Presidential Office. The demonstrations drew large crowds, mostly young people, students and academics. They took over the Ketagalan Boulevard, held all-night vigils, planted crops on the boulevard, demanding the government to halt demolition and return the farmland to the farmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then-Pr</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">emier Wu Den-yih, now Vice President, held a meeting between government officials, the Dapu residents and their supporters, where he promised the residents can keep their land. An official document from the Executive Yuan showed Wu, who presided the meeting, concluded that the farmers' homes and land would be kept as they were (原地保留).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Two weeks ago, the Miaoli County Government delivered a renewed demolition orders to the remaining households in Dapu Village. The order set July 5th as the deadline for self-demolition and eviction. If the residents failed to do so by July 5th, the government will forcibly demolish the houses to acquire the land. The four families named in the demolition order are still involved in administrative suits against the county government. Those lawsuits have yet to be resolved, but the county government made the decision to issue the demolition order anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">On July 2nd, the Dapu residents and their supporters came to the Executive Yuan to stage yet another demonstration, pleading with the current Premier, Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) to keep the former premier's promise and to step in to halt demolition. The demonstrated lasted for three years, as protesters staged a sit-in named, "July 5th, Save Dapu (七月五, 救大埔)". There were many students and professors from the country's top universities participating in the protest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Just as everyone was melting under the sun after the press conference on the first day (July 2nd), a truck pulled up with chairs and tents. The truck driver said that an individual who wishes to remain anonymous had rented the tents and chairs for the demonstrators, so they wouldn't burn or suffer from heat stroke under the sun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">I met Mr. and Mrs. Chang (張森文, 彭秀春/Peng Hsiu-chun) of the Chang Pharmacy (張藥房), the deceased Mrs. Chu's son, Chu Ping-kun (朱炳坤) and many other demonstrators from Miaoli. Mr. and Mrs. Chang are two of the kindest and gentle people I've met. Both are soft-spoken with Mrs. Chang or Big Sister Peng (彭大姐) as everyone calls her, constantly asking the demonstrators to hydrate themselves and offering her famous sweet green bean soup (綠豆湯). The Changs worked to purchase the land, where they built their home and pharmacy for the past three decades. Together, they raised three children in that house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Mr. Chang often tries to put on a smile for us; however, it was not difficult to feel his despair, stress and concern. He told us that he only has 6 ping of his home left, after the government took the other 14 ping to make way for a road. If the Miaoli Government takes what it wants this time, the Changs would only be left with 0.6 ping of their home, about the size of half a bed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">What Mr. Chang said most often to us in the past three days was, "I am a law abiding citizen. I am also a citizen of this country. I work hard, and I never did anything wrong. Why are you doing this to me? What have I done wrong? Where are we going to go if you take my land and my house?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The police decided to remove the protesters by force on 4am on the third day of protest. Mr. Chang fought the police until they stuffed him and his wife into a police van. He then lost consciousness and has been catatonic since. Mr. Chang was still conscious when I finally saw him on a wheelchair being wheeled in by Mrs. Chang to the press conference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">At the press conference on the third morning, Mrs. Chang pleaded with the media to help her deliver her message to the power that be. She said she was afraid that her husband wouldn't last long if their house is taken away. She also begged the government to spare them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Most people were crying, as they listened to Mrs. Chang, and I also observed members of the press wiping their tears as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Mr. Chu, whose mother committed suicide three years ago, also pleaded with the government to halt demolition. He said, "Premier Jiang, you can easily save a life. Why don't you do it?" He tearfully told the press about his mother and life after his mother's death. He said he's afraid Mr. Chang will be like his mom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">After the press conference, without warning, the young protesters started climbing over the gate of the Executive Yuan while chanting "Keep the promise! Preserve the homes! (信守承諾, 原屋保留!). I saw quite a few students I know jumping inside the gate and started running toward the Executive Yuan building. All of them were caught by the police before they reached the building and pushed to the ground. Yet, they continued chatting the slogan. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5oQbFb_IpXF8Rzpi1AUCzARG0QmUJhgFK3XbTn9q18mrpCuh24E7ykFNK9u49Lrc1YAChjntOgFktWKOibvyy2dqQY3wyACcSfrYeGZ9V-XPw8JXmCpXM0L5KvnrCJBUFVZiO4TbT5s/s1600/IMG_0215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5oQbFb_IpXF8Rzpi1AUCzARG0QmUJhgFK3XbTn9q18mrpCuh24E7ykFNK9u49Lrc1YAChjntOgFktWKOibvyy2dqQY3wyACcSfrYeGZ9V-XPw8JXmCpXM0L5KvnrCJBUFVZiO4TbT5s/s320/IMG_0215.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">After the third day of protest, the government suddenly announced it will halt demolition on July 5th. The news reported it was Vice President Wu Den-yih who placed a call to County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung to not demolish the homes on July 5th and to have yet another negotiation meeting to resolve the issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Vice President Wu was quickly called out on his lies, again. The official demolition order never identifies July 5th as the day of demolition. It was merely the deadline for the families to demolish their homes on their home. The county government is reserving the rights to demolish those homes at any time after July 5th. The county government also reserved the right to the roads in front of the residents for the next two weeks to prevent further demonstration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Miaoli residents and their supporters are heading back to Miaoli today for an explanation tour of the area to be demolished and to further protest the central and country government's behavior. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The last I heard, Mr. Chang is now back home and is responsive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">There had been so many similar instances in the past year, of the government forcibly evict and demolish citizens homes to acquire land in the name of progress and modernization. The citizens affected were almost always the weakest and the neediest of society. Government officials, like county commissioner Liu, often tell them to be more understanding and considerate of public interest, to see the bigger pictures and not to stand in the way of development and modernity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The most hypocritical aspect about these forced demolitions and the responsible government officials is that they will never teach by setting example. For instance, County Commissioner Liu's family homes in Houlong Township of Miaoli County are sitting in the area designated for the Miaoli High Speed Rail Station. He requested for his family homes to be preserved and was granted permission to keep his own homes. In other words, the HSR station will have to curve around his homes when constructed. How about sacrificing your homes for the sake of progress and modernity, Mr. Liu? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The latest news this morning from Dapu is County Commissioner Liu has issued yet another official demolition order, and this time, to destroy not four but five of the resident's homes, adding Mr. Chu's convenience store to the list. The location of the store is where Mrs. Chu committed suicide three years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">I am not a religious person; however, I do believe there is a special place in the 18-level of hell for people like this. </span><br />
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