228 Incident and White Terror

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Now Taiwan is a thriving young democracy. But that wasn’t always the case. Today on “228” day in Taiwan, or “Peace Memorial Day”, we examine the nation’s dark history and ask what’s standing in the way of reconciliation. Guests Lai I-chung - Prospect Foundation President - Former Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Japan special assistant - Former Taiwan Thinktank Vice President - Former Cornell University Visiting Researcher Chenlung Kuo, United Daily News Deputy Editor-in-Chief Albert Chiu, Tunghai University Political Science Professor Peng Jen-yu, a Former Transitional Justice Board Member and currently Academia Sinica Associate Research Professor in Ethnology and a Convener of Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychology's task force for political trauma and healing