With the loss of their main breadwinner, the family found itself in financial difficulties, she said. Wang had seven children, the youngest just four years old, and Huang’s mother was 18 when he was taken away.
Like other victims’ families, Huang said she wanted to know more about what happened to her grandfather.
“The government has never told us why he was taken away or what happened to him afterwards,” she said. “It is still a mystery why he deserved all this and where his body is.”
Huang said she did not hold grudges against the KMT because it was history. She also believes that both the KMT and the DPP governments have made efforts to help victims’ families come to terms with the tragic past.
However, Huang said she would like to see the government visit more families to collect more first-hand accounts of the victims. She said that the official chronicle on her grandfather was incorrect, but the family’s complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
Huang’s mother, who witnessed the arrest of her father, however, has never forgiven the KMT, Huang said.
Huang said she could understand why her mother was still bitter about what happened, but she would like to see more people work together for the future of Taiwan so that the sacrifices her grandfather and others made would not have been in vain.
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