These two videos are very controversial in this island. The embed links are also requested to be removed from the youtube so that I can not show the video directly here. 228 now is our national peace memorial day, a holiday. For over 50 years ago, several hundreds and thousands people are killed because of the demonstration to the new government. This history had been hidden for so long, over 40 years, by the government. Our people did not dare to mention anything about this. Today Taiwan people finally get our freedom to discuss our past; however, the competition of the two political parties, it makes every discussion is so controversial. I feel such attitude to against understanding our past is sick, even though they are political controversial. None of historians can be pure objective. Every interpretation implicitly has its own perspective. For such important hidden tragedy of our nation, we should listen to as many studies or reports as possible to help us understand the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFpdWktVxc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjrg-DV-GgA&feature=related
Sunday, December 9, 2007
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