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Formosa Betrayed by George Kerr

2-28 Massacres: Remembering the dark side of Taiwan’s history

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February 28, 2012March 1, 2019 Trista di Genova 2 Comments 2-28 incident, 2-28 Massacre, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Taiwan, Chen Yi, Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan, City of Sadness, Formosa Betrayed by George Kerr, Kuomintang, Lee teng-hui, Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 Ài Líndá, Taiwan martial law, White Terror

Feb. 28, 1947. A confrontation occurs between agents of the Monopoly Bureau and a woman cigarette vendor; in their view she is illegally selling cigarettes, and they try to confiscate her life savings. Onlookers intervene on her behalf and one officer opens fire as they flee, killing one of the

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