Each year, the anniversary on Feb. 28 of the infamous 228 Massacre opens briefly a window on Taiwan's tragic past exposing the exiled Republic of China ruling the island as an imposed regime. Chiang Kai-shek's embattled Kuomintang troops, losing a civil war to Mao Tse-tung's Communist revolutionaries, was provided a safe haven in Formosa, as Taiwan was then called, follwing World War II. The occupying Chinese forces, imposed on the Japanese...
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