White Terror

February 28 Incident 1947-1987 WHITE TERROR

February 28 Incident

1947-1987 Republic of China (Taiwan) was once a nation plagued with corruption, mass vio- lence, and totalitarian rule. In Taiwan, the pe- riod immediately following the 228 Incident is known as the “White Terror” for the massive suppression, murder, and imprisonment of po- litical dissidents, or anyone who the Kuomint- ang (KMT), known as Nationalists in English, perceived as a threat to its one-party rule. The Martial Law that was implemented in the after- math of the incident was not lifted until 1987.

February 28 Incident The KMT has man- aged to rule the island with its strict hands for more than fifty years, and the period of the KMT rule from 1947 to 1987 is widely known as the “WhiteTerror”era.Undertheruleofthe KMT, civil and political liber- ties of the citizens were restricted.

1947-1987 Victims of the 228 Incident were shot, tortured and killed in on the streets by soldiers – the first time for Taiwanese people to experi- ence a time of anything close to war. People just Published a newspaper of announcing that these seven people who disappeared, and ran away will be found eventually and got shot because of their crime. stayed missing un- til they were sen- However, a greater terror sown across Taiwanese tenced or their body society was person to person disconnect and an overall was discovered. The manipulation of humanity. The government encouraged friends and families people to report their family and friends as “commu- of these victims re- nist spies,” and secret agents interrogated people us- mained in the dark ing both torture and also forms of mental manipulation. for the rest of their lives, not knowing what had happened, and in many cases whether the miss- ing were still alive.

February 28 Incident They + Had KILLED People

1947-1987 People striking back for their families and rights.

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