The 228 Incident (228 Massacre) - 60 years on, Part 1/3

[changchangchanger]

stupid americans, for purposely letting kmt escape to taiwan

[leejh27]

It was an armed uprising. What they fail to emphasize is that the mobs which were later headed by committees had taken guns from the police stations and were taking over government institutions like airports and such. This was not a protest. It was an uprising to essentially overthrow the ROC provincial government in Taiwan province. It was after the committee heads insisted in its demands to Nanjing that the committees continue to hold the weapons that the troops were sent.

[Micklol]

...umm...I didn't mean to be insensitive but what use is this without English subtitle?

[TimMaddog]

It might be useful to people who are bililngual. ;-) I'd do the subtitles myself if I had the time and ability, but at the present time, I can't.

Anyway, I've added more to the description in the sidebar. (Click the "more info" link.) Sorry for not doing so a long time ago.

[artimeis]

Wait, it was an armed uprising? Stupid, badly produced, shouldn't even mention the arm uprising. If it was, then you really can't say it is a massacre.

[TimMaddog]

Gotta give artimeis an "F" for effort. It was the Chinese Nationalist Part who had the machine guns.

[artimeis]

Your point? I bet there were more people on the Taiwan side. Also, I just say this part is bad, rest of stories are good. I will not promote any denial of 228 and I do believe it happened.

[TimMaddog]

artimeis wrote: "then you really can't say it is a massacre," then s/he wrote: "I will not promote any denial of 228." Can you say "contradiction"?

[onepoundYAY]

US government is liable to Taiwan 228 Massacre, for it is General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific, who issued an order to request CKS' KMT party regime to enter Taiwan to accept the Japanese surrender in 1945. During the bloody Taiwan 228 Massacre in 1947 and the subsequent white-terror era for over 39 years long, thousands innocent Taiwan civilians have been killed and more jailed.

[MarkSynthesis]

Perhaps the US should have been able to realize that a increasingly desperate, Fascist government would eventually murder its citizenry in desperation, just as every Fascist government in history had. At the same time, I understand that the United States had a limited number of options.

Taiwan could not be left with Japan, as they lost the war. And independence is out of the question. Perhaps a bad judgement call on the part of the US, but I'd blame the KMT first, for obvious reasons.

[icefrappe]

independence was out of the question at the time mainly because taiwan had never been an independent country save for the shortlived republic of formosa of 1895 and they wanted to reward chiang kai-shek for fighting against the japanese.

the US failed to realize that taiwanese are not chinese. this massacre is the driving force of taiwanese nationalism and self-identity

[killerbug881]

FUCK you. you do not understand the whole thing. those people die in 228, you do not know how many people been kill by those people first, they get killed, that is what they should get. I really do not understand, those stupid Taiwanese

they like to kiss Japanese, but the Japanese treat them as second class citizen, they rather want to be a second class citizen than been a Chinese. even the Japanese prostitute do not want to be fuck by them,

[TimMaddog]

Thank you for yet another display of complete ignorance by the Taiwan Haters Club.

[TaiwaneseAmerican]

Brave Taiwanese.