The Cabinet yesterday announced the three final nominees for the yet-to-be-formed transitional justice promotion committee, which is to investigate political repression during the Martial Law period with the aim of bringing about social reconciliation.
The Cabinet has proposed Yang Tsui (楊翠), an associate professor of Sinophone literature at National Dong Hwa University, Academia Sinica ethnologist Peng Jen-yu (彭仁郁) and former Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation chief executive Yeh Hung-ling (葉虹靈), Executive Yuan spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said.
The Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), passed in December last year, stipulates that the committee must consist of nine members, to be nominated by the premier and approved by the Legislative Yuan. It must not include more than three members from the same political party and at least three members from each gender should sit on the committee.
The commission has been entrusted with making political archives more readily accessible, including the retrieval of those kept by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT); removing remnants of authoritarian rule; redressing miscarriages of justice; producing a historical report on the period and promoting transitional justice.
On March 31, the Cabinet nominated former Control Yuan member Huang Huang-hsiung (黃煌雄) as chairman of the committee and Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Chang Tien-chin (張天欽) as its vice chairman.
It also nominated pastor Eleng Tjaljimaraw (高天惠) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, Judicial Reform Foundation member Greg Yo (尤伯祥), Academia Sinica Institute of Taiwan History director Hsu Hsueh-chi (許雪姬) and National Taiwan University history professor Hua Yih-fen (花亦芬).
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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