Taiwan 228 Massacre 60 Years On: 1947-2007 (紀念康阿裕)

In remembrance of Mr. Kang A-Yue (康阿裕) and his elder brother, Mr. Kang A-Zhen, who were two of the thousands victims of Taiwan 228 Massacre in 1947. After living in fears over the past 60 years, Mr. Kang A-Yue (1932-2007) passed away at 76 in early June of 2007.

The true story told here is about Mr. Kang A-Yue, a man from Ilan County (宜蘭) of Taiwan, who was 16 years old at the time of the Massacre. On March 18, 1947, he was forced to bury 7 other countrymen LIVE who had been rounded up by the KMT/ROC government soldiers, in front of a local Ma-Zu Temple. Then, he and his brother were beaten to unconsciousness and left for dead. His brother didn't survive.

Those seven innocent Ilan men (who were considered by the KMT Party Regime to be local leaders) were beaten and buried LIVE by KMT soldiers simply because the KMT Party Regime was then executing the "town-cleansing" routine (as they frequently did in the civil war of China) to eliminate any possible resistance to the one-party ruling and future dominance of the KMT Party in Taiwan.

A-Yue hid out for over a decade after that, living in the wilderness for all that time. The scar on his left cheek came from the bayonet of a KMT soldier. When they were rounded up, KMT soldiers bound their hands and feet with metal wires THROUGH their palms and legs.

We wish Kang brothers find eternal peace in heaven!

This video file was re-edited based on a special presentation "228: 60 Years On" produced by Miss Y-L. Chen of Sanlih TV in Taiwan on the 60th Anniversary of Taiwan 228 Massacre (2/28/2007).

This year 2007 A.D. marked the 60th Anniversary of Taiwan February-28 Massacre in 1947. Many Formosa (Taiwan) residents who had actually witnessed the cruelties of the Massacre are still living today, but sadly in the past 60 years and even now, very few of these witnesses were willing to tell their children what they had seen in the Massacre.

Note: Dr. Margaret Lu (郭勝華), an only child and a posthumous daughter of one of these seven innocent Ilan victims, has established "Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan" blog: (in English)
http://massacreinmarch1947taiwan.blogspot.com/

Refs (in Chinese):
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/twn228care&article_id=8612320
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/228-228/article?mid=189&prev=193&next=145
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/228-228/article?mid=123&prev=145&next=120
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/228-228/photo?pid=188&prev=185&next=190

Refs (in English):
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/twn228ch&article_id=7217207
http://www.taiwandc.org/228-intr.htm
http://www.romanization.com/books/formosabetrayed/index.html

Correction: Mr. Kang was actually born in 1932.

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[Armageddon11011989]

sigh... at least the government acknowledge its crimes and compensated the people. They still could have done alot better. 12,000 HKD? thats not even funny... The Communist government would never do something like this... admit to their crimes.

pray for the victims and their families. But remember to let nothing like this will ever happen again!

[onepoundYAY]

To Armageddon11011989: The ROC Regime that had butchered thousands of Taiwan innocent civilians in Taiwan 228 Massacre was then led by the KMT Party. To date, this super rich KMT Party in exile has not confessed the criminal acts of Taiwan 228 Massacre (for which the KMT Party should be held responsible) and has not repaid any penny to the victim families, out of the huge ill-gotten assets of KMT Party.

It is Taiwan tax payers who have paid the compensations to the victims' families, not KMT!

[Emnsta]

these acts sound exactly like what Communists and Japanese would do... this news station is Taiwanese by the way. dont think that KMT is bad, its much better than Communism, i do not understand what this massacre was about. Compared to what the Japanese and communists did, this was nothing. RIP, people of this massacre, the communist massacre, and the Manchurian massacre

[onepoundYAY]

To Emnsta: Should your parents or children get kelled in this Taiwan 228 Massacre, you would not have said easy that IT WAS NOTHING!

[OwnageEh]

Rest In Peace.

[AnarchyEchelon]

fcking kmt -.-

[FirefliesSoar]

@Emnsta first, learn what happened, then you have a right to say this

[BAIYUE1]

TAIWANESE IS TAIWANESE ,IS NOT HAN CHINESE

[gto1159]

台灣中國一邊一國

[KaneNodCABAL]

KMT,

Killer, Monocrat, Thief!

[lanuiiohu]

killing is wrong!

[zzztop105]

I don't understand your logic. KMT deserved the credit for killing Taiwanese intellectuals and leaders to protect Taiwan from CCP? Chian Kai-shek is a murderer ever since he was a KMT member in China. He even killed his fellow comrades in power struggle. He beat up his wife and dragged her by hair down the stairs. If you don't know this history, go read his son Chiang Jing-kuo's diary. Trying to twist the history doesn't get you anywhere.