Mon, Feb 28, 2000 - Page 1 News List

228 Incident remembered

NATIONAL HOLIDAY Fifty-three years ago today KMT forces began summarily executing thousands of Taiwanese. The purge has never been forgotten, but it is only now that people feel safe enough to remember

By Yu Sen-lun  /  STAFF REPORTER

Another high point of yesterday's activities was the donation of the manuscript of a book Formosa Calling, Chronicle of Taiwan's 228 Incident written by New Zealander Allan James Shackleton. The book was kept as a family file in New Zealand for almost 50 years.

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