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Critics pan probe of 1980s murders

CONCEALED EVIDENCE? Wu Nai-teh, a research fellow at Academia Sinica, said a special investigative panel had ignored new facts in the suspected political killings

By Loa Iok-sin  /  STAFF REPORTER

Michael Lin (林世煜), an independent researcher into political persecution during the Martial Law era and a volunteer at the Dr Chen Wen-cheng Memorial Foundation, said the renewed investigations were not aimed at discovering the truth of the matter.

“They reopened the investigations only to close the cases,” Lin said. “They obviously just wanted to prove that security agencies were not behind [them].”

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