Taiwanese-Americans Remember Massacre

“Immigrants from Taiwan are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 228 Incident, a brutal crackdown that began on Feb. 28, 1947 and led to the massacre of as many as 30,000 people in Taiwan by the Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government… Until the late 1980s, when the first Taiwanese president took office, anyone who talked about the massacre would be persecuted. At a memorial concert at Stanford University on Feb. 25, about 300 people gathered to hear Taiwanese musicians. Another concert was staged on Feb. 28 in Los Angeles, where Taiwanese-Americans lit 600 candles to commemorate the anniversary. Family members of victims spoke at press conferences in cities across the country from New York to Los Angeles.”