White Terror (Taiwan)
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The White Terror was the political repression of Taiwanese civilians and political dissenters under the government ruled by the Kuomintang. The period is generally considered to have begun when martia
The Horrifying Inspection by printmaker Huang Rong-can depicting the February 28 incident
Martial law order taiwan may 1949
Presidential decree on 13th June 1950: Prosecuting Communist Bandits and spies during the Anti-rebellion Period
28-yr Ting Yao-tiao before execution after her toddler born in prison was forcibly removed
Chiang Kai-shek
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Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was the President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and the head of the Nationalist government from 1925 to
White Terror (Taiwan)
…Most of those prosecuted were labeled by the Kuomintang (KMT) as "bandit spies", meaning communist spies, and punished as such, often with execution. Chiang Kai-shek once said that he would rather "mistakenly kill 1,000 innocent people than allow one communist to escape". The KMT mostly imprisoned Taiwan's intellectuals…
Chiang (right) with his mother, Wang Tsai-yu (middle), who holds his son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang's then-wife, Mao Fumei, is seated left (1910)
Chiang in 1907, a student at the Baoding Military Academy
Chiang (top left) with other Chinese classmates in Japan, 1910
Chiang in 1911, an artillery officer in the Imperial Japanese Army