Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947.
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Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
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02 · Where & name
Taiwan
Written in its own script on record as 和平紀念日.
03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947. In local script on record, it is written 和平紀念日.
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Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947. Proposals to establish Peace Memorial Day as a holiday began in the early 1990s. It was passed as a national memorial day in 1995 and as an official public holiday in 1997.
A couple years after the Kuomintang government took over the administration of Taiwan from Japan, rampant corruption and heightened inflation led to a general dissatisfaction with the new government. The February 28 incident in 1947 began the Chiang Kai-shek-led government's mass killing of civilians, which continued into a period of political persecution known as White Terror. The imposition of martial law became one of the longest in world history.
In February 1987, before martial law was lifted, the 228 Peace Day Association was formed by members of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights and various other human rights groups. On 28 February 1995, 48 years after the 1947 incident, President Lee Teng-hui made a public apology to families of victims and the whole country on behalf of the government. On 23 March 1995, the February 28 Incident Disposition and Compensation Act was passed in the Legislative Yuan, and Peace Memorial Day was officially recognized as an annual memorial day.
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Peace Memorial Day is public holiday in Taiwan, commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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