Ma, CCA chief ‘Killing human rights’

Protesters demand preservation of Chingmei martial law courtroom and prison memorial

By Dennis Engbarth
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Page 4
2009-04-30 12:28 AM

Over 50 former political prisoners and human rights activists demanded that Council of Cultural Affairs chairperson Huang Pi-twan resign for "wiping out history" and "murdering human rights" in a rally outside the CCA offices in Taipei City yesterday afternoon.

The protest, which included representatives of the 1950s White Terror Victims Association, the Association of Concern for Taiwan Political Victims, the Association of Elderly Political Victims, the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the Mainlander Taiwanese Association and the Taiwan Truth and Reconciliation Association, took place one day before a CCA public hearing on its decision to change of the name of the Taiwan Chingmei Human Rights Memorial to the Chingmei Cultural Park.
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要人權！要歷史！要園區！
–要求國家人權園區法制化記者會

拜會文建會後新聞稿

針對原「台灣人權景美園區」，更名與變更用途一事，幾個政治受難者團體與關心台灣民主化、人權運動的民間團體，在今天（4/23）早上於立法院召開記者會抨擊文建會的決定。

＊ 不分國籍、藍綠、省籍 跨越政界、學界、文化界踴躍連署

記者會上民間團體公佈了短短幾天內就匯聚的大批連署支持名單，包括數百名不分省籍與意識型態的政治受難者，與民間各界人士包括國民黨立委徐中雄、鄭麗文，民進黨立委王幸男、翁金珠、高雄市長陳菊；學術界如葉啟政、錢永祥、許雪姬；藝文界人士有導演侯孝賢、萬仁、鄭文堂，作家朱天心、吳晟、詹澈、李昂，攝影家潘小俠、邱萬興、謝三泰等，甚至連蔣家後代蔣友柏亦連署支持。同時國際人權團體也已加入連署。 Read the rest of this entry »

抹煞人權記錄，抹煞反省的必要

聯合聲明

由文建會規劃管理的原「台灣人權景美園區」與原「台灣人權綠島園區」，是載滿統、獨、左、右政治犯前輩受難記憶的地方，紀念了戒嚴時期約14萬名遭拘禁與1059位遭槍決政治犯的血淚歷史，提醒台灣社會人權得來不易。但這兩個在台灣歷史佔有關鍵地位的場址，文建會卻在未經社會參與討論的情況下，將其更名為「景美文化園區」與「綠島文化園區」，其中「景美文化園區」現正規劃由文化藝術團體申請進駐，將此地原來的歷史、人權意涵抹煞殆盡。這讓所有關心台灣民主化、人權歷史者深感痛心，我們鄭重呼籲文建會應懸崖勒馬，廣納各界意見後再行規劃。
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Council draws fire over human rights park plan

By Loa Iok-sin and Rich Chang
STAFF REPORTERS
Saturday, Apr 18, 2009, Page 1

“It is ridiculous that the Ma government wants to delete this part of history.”
— Yao Chia-wen, former Examination Yuan president

Civic groups, lawmakers and former political prisoners yesterday attacked the Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA) for turning the site of a former military detention center used to jail political dissidents into a cultural park to house art and performance groups.

Before becoming the Taiwan Human Rights Memorial (台灣人權景美園區), Taipei’s Jingmei military detention center was used as both a place to try and temporarily detain political dissidents before sending them to prison or to be execution from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
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