A proposed amendment to the Political Archives Act (政治檔案條例) should be swiftly reviewed and passed by the legislature to bring fairness and justice to people affected by the 228 Incident and the White Terror era, the New Power Party (NPP) said yesterday.
“We have been focusing on issues related to transitional justice, from changing the function of the Chiang Kai-shek (蔣中正) Memorial Hall, removing symbols of the authoritarian regime, redesigning the national currency, expunging criminal records from household registration documents of political prisoners and defunding maintenance for the mausoleums of Chiang and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國),” the NPP said in a statement.
“Aside from remembering the people killed in the 228 Incident, the legislature should review the proposed amendment to the Political Archives Act and pass it at the third reading before legislators finish their term this year,” it said. “This is the way to advance transitional justice.”
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“Victims of the 228 Incident and the White Terror era can then finally have justice,” it said.
The government’s promotion of transitional justice is about seeking truth, which would help Taiwan become a real democratic country, said NPP Legislator Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華), who attended the government’s commemoration ceremony of the 228 Incident in Tainan on her final day as party chairwoman.
Premier Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) should stop delaying the progress of policies on transitional justice, she said.
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