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標題 [轉錄] "The Formosan Genocide", a Proper International Title <70 years of 228 Incidents>
時間 2017-02-11 Sat. 00:47:41
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Calling the Recognition to the Formosan Genocide
(Original title: "The Formosan Genocide", a Proper International Title)
This year, 2017, is the 70th anniversary of the
Formosan Genocide, commonly known as "February 28 Incident", "228 Incident", or sometimes "March Massacre".
The 1947 genocide is usually referred as "February 28 Incident", a belittled name accepted by Formosans (or more commonly, Taiwanese) due to the tyrannical oppression during the
White Terror Era by the perpetrators:
Chan Kai Sheck Ruling Clique of Kuomintang (KMT, also known as the Nationalist Party of China), while international community also neglects the genocidal nature of the incident.
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Genocide is a violation of International Law and there is no limitation of prosecution as it is the most heinous crime against humanity.
The idea of "language" is much equivalent to "ethnicity"; if people can communicate with each other via their own native languages, those languages are considered as the same language (but may be different dialects); if failed to communicate, those languages are not
mutual intelligibile and hence considered as different languages. For example, both Yi-lan Taiwanese and Lu-Kang Taiwanese are dialects of Taiwanese; likewise, Ssu-Hsian Hakka and Hai-lu Hakka are both dialects of Hakka. However, Taiwanese, Hakka, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghainese are different languages within Sinitic languages spoken by different groups of Han peoples, just like English and German are different languages within Germanic languages spoken by different group of European people. In addition, the difference between Taiwanese and Hakka are actually greater than the difference between English and German. To sum up: the idea of "Han peoples" and "Sintic languages" are somehow like the idea of "European peoples" and "European languages". Not to mention that most of Taiwanese are descendants of Austronesian peoples, an ethnic group completely different to Han people.
Therefore, the 228 Incident is the same kind of crime as the
Holocaust because it is Chinese perpetrators' crime against Taiwanese people.
In addition to its genocidal nature, it should be noted that Japan did not formally renounce its authority on Taiwan until the
Treaty of San Francisco was ratified on 28th April, 1952. Regarding this fact, it means that Chan Kai Sheck Ruling Clique massacred Taiwanese, who were still deemed as Japanese civilians by International Law during the 228 Incident. This act is considered as a war crime for killing civilians of a surrendered country. It is sometimes questioned if 228 Incident contains Chan Kai Sheck Ruling Clique's hatred to Japanese, considering Taiwanese had been heavily influenced by
Japanese culture during Japanese Era.
Chan Kai Sheck not only came to Taiwan to disarm Imperial Japanese Armed Forces under the request of Douglas MacArthur, then Supreme Commander of Allied Force, with the order of Harry Truman, but he was also the leader of China, one of the founding countries of United Nations. Hence, he should have been restrained by related international treaties.
Hence, Taiwanese should file a lawsuit in
International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ever since the early modern period, the history of Taiwan features considerable numbers of massacres. Prior to resistances and rebellions against Japanese Colonial Government, which ended up with several ten thousands deaths of Taiwanese, there was a continuous killing since the era of
Kingdom of Tungning to
Manchurian Empire. During Manchurian rule, the colonial government implements despotic policies, causing "Three years an uprising, Five years a Rebellion". This shows Taiwanese's nature of revolting against tyrannical rules and, unfortunately, the fate of on-and-forth genocides. This is why there are so many shrines in Taiwan, as they were built as condolence for the fallens.
The Formosan Genocide of 1947 bring the calamity of colonial history to a whole new level. There were hundreds of thousands Taiwanese killed during the Pacific War and after the World War II, instead of having a post-war peace time to rebuild the society, Taiwanese were once again victims of genocide. This time, it was Chan Kai Sheck Ruling Clique, a group of Chinese claiming themselves "countrymen" of Taiwanese, who conduct the massacre.
It is said that killing is a norm in the history of China. Just take a look in it since early modern era, there are
Chang Hsien-chung's massacres in Sichuan province in late Ming Emire (millions of death),
T'ai P'ing Rebellion (at least 20 million to even 100 million death),
Boxer Rebellion (more than 100 thousands death), and Cultural Revolution and "Three Red Banners" (millions of deaths). Some argue that it is no surprise for Chinese to see Chan Kai Sheck's crime against Taiwanese, or
Mao Zedong's crime against Tibetans, let alone "only few thousands" of death in
Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Taiwanese must get rid of this tyrannical violence of Sinitic Culture as this is the one and the only approach for Taiwan to escape the vicious spiral and become one of the modern civilizations in the world.
Taiwanese must rename 228 Incident into Formosan Genocide in order to regain the collective memory of Taiwanese, protect the freedom, defend the integrity, gather Taiwanese from every corner in the world, enhance the national consciousness and identity recognition as Taiwanese, which will ultimately lead to the establishment of a true independent sovereign state of Taiwanese instead of a "host" of Republic of China brought by Chan Kai Sheck Ruling Clique.
Formosan Genocide Recognition is imminently needed.
"Formosan Genocide", as a proper title, will let the international community to recognition the genocidal nature of the 228 Incident, as well as learning the fact that Taiwan is never a part of China since it come into existence. This is the most effective self-proclaim for Taiwanese against the annex of China in the guise of "unification".
This renaming process is a part of
transitional justice, just like we Taiwanese have been insisting on investigation into the true killers behind the genocide for so many years. It is also demand that Kuomintang must return all of the unlawful confiscation from victims of White Terror. Most of all, lobbyist groups should be assembled in order to call recognition of Formosan Genocide among the international community, just like how the Armenians have been doing: calling the world to recognition of
Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, which ultimately gains massive supports from more than half of the member states in the United Nations. If this is failed to achieve, Taiwanese not only fail themselves, but also contempt the witness of
George Kerr and Allen Shackleton as recorded in their books
Formosa Betrayed and
Formosa Calling respectively.
It is looking forward to see a remembrance of the Formosan Genocide at 70 in every corner in Taiwan on 28th February 2017.
The last but not least, the promotion of renaming and recognition to the Formosan Genocide in the world are highly expected to come.
Tek-Khiam Chia, Secretary General of Southern Taiwan Society
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If you love freedom, respect the integrity and honor, and treasure values of lives, let us commemorate and promote the proper international title of the "Formosan Genocide". Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much!
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※ 作者: Ctea 時間: 2017-02-11 00:47:41
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※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-02-11 00:42:29
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