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EDITORIAL: Let's feed Chiang to the historians
How history should treat Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) has become a political issue in the run-up to national elections. This issue -- which involves transitional justice, party history and tradition, ethnic relations and election interests -- is not as black and white as either revering or denouncing Chiang would suggest.
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LETTERS
The name game
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The legacy of Chiang isn't worth the debate
By Chen Yi-shen 陳儀深
THIS YEAR, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government finally set its sites on the Chiang Kai-shek (CKS) Memorial Hall.
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Forgetting Myanmar all over again
World powers, the UN and ASEAN were talking tough over Myanmar's brutality, but with the passage of only weeks it turns out they were all talk
By Seth Mydans
The streets are quiet in Myanmar. The "destructive elements" are in jail. The international outcry has faded. The junta's grip on power seems firm.
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The academic who coined the `French paradox'
Caroline Fournet's career in human rights law was partly inspired by tales of Nazi horrors and French pragmatism
By Chris Arnot
The Holocaust cast a dark shadow over Caroline Fournet's French childhood and shaped her future career.
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Ordinary Portuguese confront a colonial past
By Barry Hatton
The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped on jungles where guerrillas sheltered, and grass-hut villages torched with cigarette lighters.
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