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Apr 30th, 2009 by tahr

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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Council draws fire over human rights park plan

Apr 18th, 2009 by tahr

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. Read the rest of this entry »