ASSIGNING BLAME: The president had strong words for the former KMT authoritarian regime, and said many people who committed atrocities had not yet been punished
By Ko Shu-ling and Shih Hsiu-chuan
Former dictator Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) was a "murderer" and the people responsible for the bloody 228 Incident should stand trial for their crimes, President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday.

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NO REPARATIONS: The World Court also rejected compensation for Bosnia over mass killings in the 1990s, but criticized Serbia for not punishing the guilty
The UN's highest court yesterday exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnia war, but ruled that it failed to prevent genocide.

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After nearly a decade of trying, Japan has succeeded in establishing a network of spy satellites that can peer in on any point on the globe once a day, officials said yesterday.

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By Jewel Huang and Shelley Shan
If Taiwan and China reach consensus on negotiating the opening of cross-strait charter flights, "international" passengers -- including Chinese -- will also be allowed to take the flights, President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday in Taipei.

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The Japanese education minister has denounced Western-influenced individualism in schools, saying allowing too much freedom was like eating too much butter, newspapers said yesterday.

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