The legislature yesterday approved an amendment to the Act for Handling and Compensation for the 228 Incident (二二八事件處理及補償條例) that would require the Executive Yuan to establish a national memorial hall in commemoration of the 228 Incident.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus accepted demands by the the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus that the hall be established at the national level, not at the local level as the Executive Yuan initially suggested.
The amendment to the Act also stipulates that the Executive Yuan set measures to help the victims of the incident, who have been stigmatized as belonging to “mobs,” to restore their reputations.
Currently, Article 6 of the Act says that victims and their families can ask for the removal of incriminating records, but there have been complaints that records defaming the victims are still kept in household registration and judicial data.
“The lack of statutory regulations in the current Act is causing difficulty in clearing the victims’ reputations,” said DPP Legislator Wong Chin-chu (翁金珠), who introduced the bill.
The Memorial Foundation of 228 was set up in 1995 to handle monentary compensation and spiritual consolation for victims.
Following the passage of the amendment yesterday, the foundation will shoulder other tasks such as collecting historical data in connection with the incident, investigating the truth behind it, organizing activities in commemoration of the tragedy and hosting exchanges with international communities on education, human rights, history and culture related to the 228 Incident.
The 228 Incident refers to an uprising in 1947 against the KMT regime and the brutal crackdown that left tens of thousands dead and led to a nearly four decades of martial law.
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