Francis Fukuyama wrote a very famous saying in his book "Political Order and Political Decline ", "Every grain of dust in the era, when it falls on an individual, is a mountain." This is true. Historical events are just a passage for today's people, but for those who witnessed the time, they may have been a sway of life.
Zhang Changmei: It's so hard to live
Zhang Changmei's story is recorded in the book "Liumagou No. 15: Green Island Girls' Team and Others".
Zhang Changmei is just an ordinary high school girl, very ordinary, just like every high school girl around her. At the beginning of the enrollment, the Student Union (called Student Autonomous Association in Taiwan) began the selection work. Zhang Changmei, who was curious about the student union, participated in the selection and was very lucky to stand out and successfully joined the association. Afterwards, Zhang Changmei began a campus life that took into account both sides, one was learning tasks and the other was student affairs. For Taiwanese students, this was the most normal daily life.
On this day, Zhang Changmei, who was in class, was suddenly called by the principal to ask questions. Zhang Changmei, who was anxious along the way, kept reflecting on whether she had done something wrong in daily life, and she couldn't figure it out after thinking about it. After the principal finished asking questions, two fierce strangers suddenly appeared and took her away without saying a word.
On the way, Zhang Changmei, who was unruly, realized that her arrest was for "participating in the rebellious organization", and the so-called rebellious organization was the student union where she participated.
Zhang Changmei was arrested, and her family knew nothing. They just suddenly found that their youngest daughter, who should have gone home for dinner, had not come back. I couldn't wait any longer, so I went to the school to search and found that my daughter "disappeared out of thin air". When I asked the school for an explanation, the school was hesitant and was anxious when asked, so I revealed some speculations in a vague and mysterious manner.
Long Yingtai (center) accompanied Zhang Changmei (left) to check the list of white horror deaths
In fact, the family members were quite clear about Zhang Changmei's whereabouts. For Taiwanese people at that time, "someone disappeared out of thin air" and "someone confirmed death" could almost be equated, but they were unwilling to believe that this disaster would actually come to their daughter.
Zhang Changmei in prison lives in fear of "may die tomorrow" every day, and she has to deal with sudden and inexplicable interrogation and beatings at every moment. Sometimes, Zhang Changmei would think, "Just die."
In that prison, there were much more pitiful people than Zhang Changmei's experiences. A pregnant woman in Rokka, a mother who is strongly surviving with her children, and a young man who was executed because he might have read a book. In Zhang Changmei's memories, the two things that scared her the most were two places, one was " Secret Bureau ". Every time she went to the Secret Bureau, she could hear the shrill sound of the perpetrators going to torture and the innocent people begging for mercy. Another place is Military Law Department . When detained in the Military Law Department, if you hear the guards approaching at night, you will be so scared that you will be trembling. "The most fear of walking to our door is that you will ask someone to go to the shooting."
Later, Zhang Changmei was sent to Green Island, which is a place where political prisoners are imprisoned. Surprisingly, life in Green Island is relatively safe. You can go to class or talk to classmates, because there are few girls on the island, and you can always see boys lined up to salute on the way to fetch water. "It's quite fun."
Green Island Prison
On Green Island, Zhang Changmei met a young mother Ding Yaotiao. The Ms. Ding and her two-year-old daughter survived in prison and tried her best to survive. One day, Zhang Changmei saw Miss Ding being taken away with her daughter in her arms. After a while, an officer walked back alone with her two-year-old daughter.
The girl's voice was shrill, which was unbearable to hear. Afterwards, Zhang Changmei learned that Miss Ding had been executed by shooting. The two-year-old girl died in prison with her biological mother in person.
Among these people, Zhang Changmei is lucky enough to survive until she is released from prison. Although Ms. Zhang needs to face her family who has been away from her for twenty years and face the already changing society again, she also has to face the "care and return visits" from spies from time to time.
In the book, a young woman named Shi Shuihuan also records. Xiao Shi is already at work, but is not married yet. She sent out a total of 68 letters from home, all of which were sent to her mother, each of which contained a longing for her mother. Among them, the words " Mom, I'm sorry for you, I can't support you, Mom, I hope you are healthy, Mom, I miss you very much " appeared repeatedly, but the very simple words were unbearable to read suddenly.
In the letter, she also wrote, "Don't worry, mom, I believe that the judiciary is fair, the sir will restore my innocence, God will have justice, , which we will meet soon."
The last letter she sent only wrote the date and was executed before she could write it. She finally couldn't see her mother.
"I didn't sign, so I survived"
This is a story from 1950, from a memory of a Taiwanese netizen.
The protagonist was running several small boats at that time, doing some fishing business, and was a small boat owner. On this day, he had just walked to the door of his shop when suddenly several police officers came out from nowhere to ask him "what to do here." The owner of the ship was shocked. He knew something was wrong, so he just said that he came to the store to buy some fish.
The police told the ship owner, "Recently, some bandits and spies have been involved in fishing clubs. The fishermen have complex ideas and are easily incited by bandits and spies." The ship owner quickly said that he was not a fisherman, but a ship owner. But the police took the person away without listening to his argument.
This shipowner was sent to the truck compartment, with his hands tied up and his face covered. He felt that there was a lot of luck and was slapped all over. He thought to himself that he would be taken directly to Macho or the river bank to kill him. He was quite well-informed and knew that there were many such people.
Until he was taken to the torture room, he still felt a sense of falsehood of surviving the disaster. The interrogator is a kind and gentle person. He said kindly, "Don't be nervous, just ask a few things. Once you ask clearly, you will be able to go home."
But in fact, there was no decent interrogation at all. The interrogator just asked him to sign the document happily, and repeatedly emphasized that he could go home as long as he signed it. But he didn't even see the document. Whenever he wanted to see the contents of the document clearly, the police behind him would press his head on the table and smash it.
Interrogation officer said that these documents involve confidentiality and cannot be read, but as long as you sign, you can leave the interrogation room and go home immediately.
cannot sign unless it is absolutely necessary. The shipowner knows this very well. Signing in the police station is equivalent to pleading guilty. He has heard this statement many times. Seeing that he refused to sign, the interrogator and the police stood up and left, probably because of a cat's ease of catching rats. It may also be a mild means of interrogation.
Then, after staying in this dark basement for some time, the shipowner finally collapsed.
Just as the ship owner was about to sign, a policeman suddenly ran in and whispered to the interrogator. After saying that, the interrogator looked at the shipowner strangely, "What is your relationship with Director Huang?" The shipowner did not know this mysterious Director Huang, so he just shook his head. The interrogator then put away the documents and told the shipowner, "Someone is protecting you, you can go back first."
walked to the street, and the shipowner felt a sense of strangeness as if he was a different life. He rushed out and pulled his hand and shouted, "You are stupid, why don't you run quickly? Do you know how much effort I have to go to this place from the reporter and how much effort I have spent to entrusting Director Huang with the relationship?" The shipowner looked up and saw that he was a friend he knew.
A week later, the shipowner saw in the newspaper that several fishing club cadres were executed for collusion with bandits. Only happiness can be achieved after the disaster.
"Send you to prison, that's saving you"
Hu Zidan is Taiwan Navy second lieutenant. He was investigated because his friend was involved in a bandit and was later sent to Green Island. But on Green Island, Beard Dan still refused to give up. He gritted his teeth and learned English to the point where he was very proficient. He survived successfully to the prison by tutoring English for the warden's children. After being released from prison, I also found a good job with excellent English skills.
In his later years, Hu Zidan wrote a memoir and became famous.By chance, he met Judge Chen who convicted him again. With a complicated mood, Hu Zidan asked Lao Chen how he sentenced the case back then.
Judge smiled, "Brother, I've sentenced it very well. The above was going to shoot you, do you know? I really couldn't write and shoot you, so I was sentenced to ten years. sentenced you to save you, otherwise you have been shot. "
Author: Undecided
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