htmlFebruary 28, in the eyes of most mainland people, it is just an ordinary day. If there is any difference, this month is the shortest of the year. In a non-leap year, the 28th is just the last day of February. However, in Taiwan, this day has a unique significance. In addition to the emergencies 70 years ago, there is also a special holiday born due to commemoration.
After Taiwan's liberation in 1945, the Kuomintang authorities' corrupt and autocratic rule caused dissatisfaction and resistance from the Taiwanese people. On the evening of February 27, 1947, several anti-smuggling personnel and police officers from the Taipei Monopoly Bureau seized 40-year-old widow Lin Jiangmai selling smuggling cigarettes near Yanping North Road in Taipei City. The law enforcement process was rough and Lin Jiangmai was injured. The onlookers couldn't stand it and surrounded them. When the investigation personnel escaped, they shot and killed Chen Wenxi, a citizen who was watching the fun. This incident became the fuse, triggering a large-scale armed riot, and causing the "February 28 Incident" that swept the entire island. After the incident broke out, the Communist Party of Taiwan also intervened in some areas, such as Xie Xuehong and Yang Kehuang, who led the "Three Two Incident" in , Taichung, and . The Kuomintang authorities then began a full-scale suppression.
The number of casualties caused by the "228 Incident" has always been different. Some people say less than a thousand people, while others say that there are as many as hundreds of thousands. Taiwan’s administrative agencies set up a “228 Incident” commemorative foundation to handle the victim’s application for compensation. The number of cases of compensation was 2,288, of which 862 were found to be victims of death and missing. Of course, the number of compensation cases is not the same as the actual number of suffering. The real historical situation still needs historians to explore more convincing records to show their credibility.
28 on the eve of the arrival of 28th, Tsai Ing-wen also said that she would conduct a thorough investigation. She posted on Facebook that the Taiwan authorities will continue to investigate the truth with the most cautious attitude, clarify the responsibility for the "228 Incident", and change the current situation of "only victims and no perpetrators".
There is no need to say the so-called "perpetrator" clearly, and I also know that she aimed the Kuomintang, because no matter how she was involved, it would not be the DPP. After all, there was no DPP at that time. Their usual plan is to shape the Kuomintang as the culprit, provoke hatred from other provinces to bully the people of their provinces, and then build a historical view of "anti-China" and "Taiwan independence". They pointed the "culprit" of the incident at Chiang Kai-shek, believing that Chiang Kai-shek should bear the greatest responsibility by appointing the commander of the 21st Division, Liu Yuqing, and his troops to Taiwan to carry out massacres and suppression work in the villages, and that they should bear the greatest responsibility, while military and political personnel such as Chen Yi, and Chen Yi, and should bear the "secondary responsibility".
Taiwan's cultural and historical worker Wu Zhizhang quoted Chiang Kai-shek's hand-written hand-in-hand telegram: "Taiwan Chief Chen should strictly prohibit military and political personnel from exercising revenge, otherwise they will be considered as a crime." He believed that from the direct evidence of the hand-in-hand telegram or other indirect evidence, Chiang Kai-shek was not the executioner of the "228th" executioner. Whether Chiang Kai-shek directly ordered the suppression remains to be verified, but it is an indisputable fact that the Kuomintang, which was in power at that time, had an unshirkable responsibility. With this alone, the DPP can lead the fire to the Kuomintang and execute the Kuomintang in the name of "investigating the truth."
(Photo: Chiang Kai-shek's hand-in-chief)
The main goal of the "228 Incident" is to drive corrupt bureaucrats out of the government. The essence is to "officials force the people to rebel", which is in line with the surging democratic movement of "anti-hunger, anti-persecution, and anti-civil war" in the mainland. This is a historical grudge between the Kuomintang authorities and their compatriots in Taiwan, but it is not that their compatriots want to betray the motherland, nor that they want to seek "independence" or a colony of which country they want to become. The idea of shaping "228" into is that the people of Taiwan demanding "Taiwan independence" and getting rid of the bullying and exploitation of "foreign regimes", is nothing more than using this issue that has entangled Taiwanese society for 70 years to fulfill the purpose of "Taiwan independence".
State 0A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council An Fengshan pointed out in a regular press conference on the 22nd that the "February 28 Incident" that occurred 70 years ago was a just action by Taiwan compatriots to resist autocratic rule and fight for basic rights, and was a part of the struggle for the liberation of the Chinese people.For a long time, this incident has been exploited with ulterior motives of some "Taiwan independence" separatist forces on the island. They distort historical facts, provoke conflicts among provincial people, tear apart the Taiwanese ethnic groups, create social confrontation, and promote "Taiwan independence" and separatist activities. The intention behind it is very despicable.
Looking at the practices of the Democratic Progressive Party and deep green forces such as the "independence faction", how many are looking for the historical truth?
htmlOn the 21st, the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yongkang Park, Da'an District, Taipei City was first sprayed with protest words such as "228 culprits" in red. Then at 2:28 pm, a man surnamed Lin climbed directly onto the head of Chiang Kai-shek's bronze statue to pull away to "excreate protest." Is this vulgar approach and this unreasonable behavior the attitude you should have in the face of history? Dare to say that it is to uphold justice for the "228th"?
commemorating "228" is not to create new hatred or to tear apart society, but to heal the wounds of history with correct understanding and resolve the resentment of ethnic groups on the island.
When it comes to manipulation by the "Taiwan independence" forces, you must not be lenient when it is time to seize the right to speak!
(Author Pan Ning, producer of "Strait Shinkansen")
