Taiwan Military Reserve Lieutenant General Huang Yibing: The Three Lions Mountain Artillery Fort is facing this situation because the Taiwan authorities and local counties and cities lack planning and execution. They only want to solve their own problems and treat battlefield historical sites as hot potatoes.
Following the "Xiamen-jinshui-tongshui ceremony incident" that happened earlier, something very strange happened again in Kinmen. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the "August 23" artillery battle, the "Kinmen Defense Command" recently quickly dismantled the Three Lions that fired the most artillery shells during the "August 23 Artillery Battle" in Kinmen and once appeared on the cover of the American "LIFE" magazine. The Shanpao Fort and the "Restore the National Treasury" in front of the mountain built in 1954 made the military comrades in the region furious. Lv Kunhe, the cultural director of Kinmen County, rushed to the site for a survey. Seeing the tragic situation, he couldn't help but choked with sadness.
According to Taiwan's United News Network reported on August 2, Lu Kunhe said that according to Article 15 of Taiwan's "Cultural Assets Law", buildings and historical sites that are more than 50 years old should be evaluated in conjunction with the Cultural Affairs Bureau before being demolished. However, the Taiwan military None of this has been implemented. The Cultural Bureau of Kinmen County had no idea that the military was going to demolish the bunkers. Lu Kunhe bluntly said, "The military is breaking the law" and he did not rule out imposing penalties.
Screenshot of Taiwanese media reports
The Kinmen Battlefield Historic Site Society stated that it learned on July 26 that the "Counterattack Treasury", "Rejuvenation Treasury" and "Sanshishan Howitzer Position" with cultural qualifications were about to be demolished. Due to the three Buildings in the camp area The objects all met the qualifications for cultural heritage review, so I hurriedly found old photos and video records, and reported them to the military through the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Kinmen University. Unexpectedly, the military responded: "It is impossible to have buildings over 50 years old." Therefore, Demolition procedures continued as usual, and three historic buildings were destroyed by heavy machinery.
All the historical battlefield historical sites of Kinmen Sanshishan Artillery Fort were destroyed, which is sad (Photo source: Lianhe News Network)
Dong Senbao, executive director of the Kinmen Battlefield Historical Relics Society, said that based on the According to the "Kinmen Defense Department" statistics table on the number of shells fired in the artillery battle, the Sanshishan howitzer position was the unit that fired the most shells in the artillery battle, with a total of 11,603 rounds (from August 23, 1958 to October 6, 1958). Japan), located in the northeast corner of Kinmen. This position was built in 1957 before the "August 23" artillery battle. The beams on the bunker still have the "spiritual slogan" of the Taiwanese army of "one call and a hundred responses, quick action and fierce attack" written on it. "Commander Hao Baicun mentioned that it has been 61 years since the bunker was built.
Seeing that the entire bunker had been demolished, and many precious historical relics turned into scrap iron and rubbish on the ground, the military comrades were very angry. Huang Yibing, the former "Deputy Commander of the Army Command" in Taiwan, bombarded him, Seeing it precious The historical and cultural heritage was abandoned and razed to the ground. As a soldier, I felt quite indignant, sad and regretful.
Although Shi Shunwen, the "Political Warfare Director of the Ministry of Finance and Defense", claimed that the bunker would be demolished mainly to return the land to the people, and an investigation was conducted beforehand, and it was not more than 50 years ago. However, as soon as he finished speaking, some military friends immediately took out photos showing the completion date of 1956 and directly slapped him in the face. The county cultural bureau also questioned that the military demolished it privately without reporting it in accordance with the cultural assets law. In this regard, Shi Shunwen said that before the "Ministry of Finance" demolishes any military buildings in the future, it will submit them to the local cultural authorities for review and approval, and then demolish them after assessing that they have no preservation value.
According to a report by Taiwan's "Free Electronic News" on the 2nd, Taiwan's Military Reserve Lieutenant General Huang Yibing issued a message on the evening of the 1st, saying that he only made a special trip to Kinmen last week to participate in the "Kinmen Camp Revitalization and Reuse" academic seminar. It was reported that the military ignored the coordination of the county cultural bureau and cultural heritage preservation groups and accelerated the demolition of military fortifications, positions, strongholds and gun forts that they considered unimportant.
He criticized that Sanshishan Artillery Fort faced this situation because the Taiwan authorities and local counties and cities lacked planning and execution. They only wanted to solve their own problems and treated historical battlefield sites as hot potatoes. If this situation develops, Kinmen's cultural assets will be destroyed and completely destroyed within 2 or 3 years.
He appealed to relevant units to immediately stop the demolition of all military facilities in Kinmen pending the completion of the assessment of cultural and historical value; and formed an "inter-ministerial" and cross-unit task force to comprehensively take stock of all military facilities in Kinmen; formed a review team to comprehensively Review the cultural and historical value of all military installations in the Kinmen area and distinguish ways of subsequent treatment. In addition, the "Cultural Assets Protection Regulations" should also quickly fill in the gaps and add penalties for "unauthorized demolition of historical monuments in battlefields".
