Dozens of people mobilized by the White Justice Social Alliance yesterday staged a protest outside the Taiwan Civil Government’s headquarters in New Taipei City’s Banciao District (板橋) over remarks by one of the group’s members, Hung Su-chu (洪素珠).
“Hung Su-chu, come out! Hung Su-chu, come out!” the angry crowd shouted as they demonstrated outside the group’s headquarters.
“I want Hung to come out and face us, because she bullied an older man,” a 60-year-old protester surnamed Cheng (鄭) said. “If she thinks she is right, she should come and talk to us.”
Photo: Ho Yu-hua, Taipei Times
“Hung has repeatedly insulted waishengren (外省人), many of whom are so old that they could not even protect themselves and became victims of ethnic discrimination,” an 81-year-old protester surnamed Hsu (許) said.
The term waishengren is used to refer to people who fled to Taiwan with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime in 1949.
The alliance organized yesterday’s protest after Hung uploaded a video of herself asking an older veteran how long he has been in Taiwan, accusing him of having made no contribution to Taiwan, but having everything provided by Taiwanese, and telling him to go back to China.
In reference to the Taiwan Civil Government’s view that the Japanese emperor still holds sovereignty over Taiwan and the US has the right to occupy Taiwan and should create a civil government to administer it, the protesters stepped on Japanese flags and held signs that read: “We are grateful for the contributions of veterans” and: “The slaves of Japanese pirates should get out of the Republic of China [ROC].”
“We will destroy your ‘national flag’ soon, why not come out? Where are your Black Bear Troops?” alliance spokesman Chen Chien-hua (陳建華) said to members of the Taiwan Civil Government, who were separated from the protesters by a wall of police.
The group claims it has established its own armed forces, which it has named Black Bear Troops.
The protesters held ROC flags and sang the ROC national anthem.
While Hung’s name and condemnation of her actions were rarely mentioned, the protesters repeatedly hurled insults at the group’s members, such as “Japanese pirates” or “Japanese ghosts,” while saying that the ROC has sovereignty over Taiwan.
Despite a few minor scuffles when individual protesters tried to breach the police barricades, the protest remained mostly peaceful and lasted for a little more than an hour.
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