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(DECEI|BER 1991 _ JI,NE 1992'

Dec 91: started a christmas care letter writing campaign to political prisoners the in Taiwan. A1r Taiwanese churches in Toronto responded to this call and sent cards and letters prisoners to political in Taiwan. ilan 92: rssued a statement on January 9, 1992, in protest against Beijing authorities for phyical manhandling and expulsion of three members of the canadian parriament, Mrs. Beryl Gaffiney, Mr. Svend Robinson and Mr. George This incident scott. was an unprecedented diplomatic scandal. The Taiwanese Human Rights Association of Canada condemned B eijing a u t h o rit ie s ' d is re s p e c t for human rights and mistreatment of these three courageous Mps. Ms. P .L. Lin, was in t e rv ie we d b y ra d io s t a t io n CHRY o f Toronto to express the vi-ews of THRAC on this incident. g, 1gg2, Feb 92: fssued a stateme n t o n ' F e b ru a ry in p ro t e s t the recent arrest o f a jo u rn a lis t , Ms . S t e lla W. C" Ch en by th eKMT regime in Taiwan. she was first harrassed by the KMT regime when she reported inappropriate practices procedu re s a g a in s t o p p o s it io n of judiciar le a d e rs . she subseguentry established the organization for TaiwanNation Building to advocate Taiwan independence. Feb 92: Several members of Taiwanese Human Rights Association of canada met with members of parliament in ottawa in February, 1992. A b rie f in g o n h u ma n rig h t s is s u e s in Taiwan was presented, as well as the status of Taiwan among the international communities: GATT and United Nations. Feb-Flar 92: co-sponsored the first Nationar TaiwaneseCanadian Cultural Convention from February Zg to March '1, 1992 in O t t a wa . t h is ma rk e d t h e 125th r Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the 30th anniversary of Taiwanese-Canadian Association. The major events included the Memorial session for V ictims of February 2 8 , 1 9 4 7 ma s s a c re ; s p e c ia l guest speeched by Local Government Officials, Professor from the university of ottawa, Members of P arliament, and F e d e ra r Mu lt ic u lt u ra lis m o f f ic ia ls , the Music for Equality and Unity, Banguet, and Talent shows. This event attracted approximately three hundred audi.ence At the Condention, Ms . p . L . L in p re s e n t e d a wa rd s t o Professor Robert Huang and Albert Lin. As founder of the A-cA and THRAC, their vision, courage, dedication and contributions to the Taiwanese Communitites in Canada make them well dese rv in g o f t h e a wa rd s . several members of THRACvisited the Tu cheng Detention p io f . center while they we re in T a iwa n wit h chang, Dr. wang, Dr.K uo a n d p ro f . L e e t o e x p re s s o u r s in c e re support for their struggle for an independent and democratic Taiwan.

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922 Join effort with other campaign ads to rescue ploitical 92: Held mernbers ureetings. rights activist, from Taiwan

organization prisoners

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Invite Ms. Chen, a human as guest of Honour. members into groups.

ON-going

THRAC Care Task Force organized

Distrubed on-going mailed TAIWAN COMMUNfQUE to concerned organj.zations and individuals in Canada Human Rights organizations, churches, Members of Parliament, Federal re s e a rc h officials, scholars, in s t it u t e s , and International Committee for Human Rights in Taiwan, EC the HAGUE, the Netherlands.

POLITTCAI,

PRISONERS RECENTLY RELEASED IN TAIWA}I

' Under the pressure groups and at of domestic opposition groups and individuals including urge of international the various human rights associations, Annesty International, and other dignitari-es from all over churches, politicians, the KMT Government finally amended the notorious the world, code which initially 1 00 of the criminal imposed article penalties defined sedition. on loosely the amended code and association expression from sedition excludes peaceful pe n alties. of the amendment, nine political As a result dissidants for sedition who were imprisoned or under indictment charges, the amendment went into effect on May 18, were released after political prisoners 1992. The following of Taiwan have been released. recently 50 year old Kang-lu Wang, and Author. Plant Physiologist 53 years old. !lr. Hwa Huang, Magazine E d it o r, a n d P e a c e A c t iv is t . A uthor, 41 years o].d. Chen, Ms- Wan-chen and Newspaper Publisher. Author, Journalist, 36 years old. Dr. Pei-Horng Kuo, Engineer and Newspaper Publisher. Civil Professional tee, 38 years old. Ying-Yuan Professor of Hea1th Adrninistration, Professor Assistant Univ. of South Dakota 47 years old. Dr. Long-Jun Hsu, Association Dentist in Taj-wan President, 47 years old. Lin, Yong-Shen l{r. Taj.wan rndependence Activist. 41 years old. Cho, Mr. Wu-Chien News p a p e r e d it o r, a n d Ma g a z in e P u b lis h er . S tatistician, 33 years old. ur. Kai-shih Chiang, Reformer. and Non-violent Author Dr.

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DR. GEORGET.H.

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Dr. George T.II. Chang, Chair^man of tVor].d United Fomosans for (wuFr), rndependence has been the driving force behind the overseas independence movement for more than two decades. YlttFr was founded in 1971 | through a merger of overseas Taiwanese groups set up in the 1960s in Japan, the United States, Canada and Europe. Its objective is to establish independent state of Taiwan with a democratic a sovereign, political multi-party system by peaceful means. professor Dr. a former Chang is and dean of chemical department engineering at Cooper Union University in New York, where he taught for 20 years before he resigned. in 1987 to work full time for WttFI. He went to the United States for advanced studies after graduating from National Taiwan University and received a PHD from Rice uinversity in Houston, Texas in 1966. Dr. Chang was arrested at Taipei International airport on December 7, 1991, after he flew in from Tokyo. He was returning to Taiwan after 30 years of exile in the United His return was an important part of a campaign States. launched'by. the WUFI leadership in the summer of 1990 to move the Central Headquarter back to Taiwan by the end of 19 9 1 . Dr. Chang has been charged with "illegal if convicted, he could and "sedition". life in prison. : entry into Taiwan" be senetenced to

Dr. Chang is currently suffering from heart problem, high blood presure and a tumor in his neck, extremely just last month. discovered Lack of rnedical attention in the detention center has prompted an island-wide for his bail on medical care. call Depite calls for parliament his release from many members of Taiwans' have refused the petition. the Taiwan authorities please send protest letters to the following:

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COMMTTNIQUE

Issue

54,

April

1992

1.

Electing

the

President,

direct

or

indirect?

A debate about direct presidential or indirect election errupted in March between the conservative and the progressive wings of the KI'IT party. A major faction within the regislative Yuan - the new KMT Alliance - came out in favor direct election, within the central standing committee of the KMT, ttMainstream Factiontt members of the spoke in favor of direct and 10 members of the conservative election faction favored indirect election. A compromj.sed resolution was drafted subseguent to a vote by the Central Committee which proposed that the method of election shall be decided by the new Assembly. National The DPP has opposition long called for direct presidential election. It favors a presidential system where power is divided among the executive, the legislative and the ju d icial branches. 2. KtfT threatens to disband DPP.

At its fifth Annual Convention, the Dpp adopted a clause in the party Chapter calling for of an ".. the establishment independent Republic and sovereigm of Taiwan and the enactment of a new Constitution, to be decided by the people of Taiwan in a plebiscite." itre potitiial Party Screening Committee issued warnings and threatened to disband the DPP unless it dropped the clause. The DPP ignored the warnings. On Feb. 1992, the KMT a u thorities abruptly. d e c id e d to d e la y the d e c is io n on disbandment indefinitely. 3. Demonstration for fndependence in Taichung

On Feb. 23, 1992, close to 401000 people dencnstrated government for its atternpt to against the disband the Dpp and urged the government to work towards rejoining the United Nations. The demonstartors include church groups, Buddhists Taiwan Association Professors, of University students, Taiwan Environmental Protection Union and others. 4. "Februrary 28" Comnemmorated

The 45th anniversary of the February 28 Incident was commenmmorated in a memorial concert service attended by families of the victims, the Presbyterian Church, the Dpp representatives and president Lee. The presbyterian church_ issue-a a statement ( 1) carring for: The end- of dr""-iEiJ"tion ;; ch-;e Kai_shek and his faniJ.y (2'r. Nationalization of the nilitary (3) ' Revivar of the true-i"ir"nese-ipirit. (4). Building a new Taiwan.

5. Governnent

comnittee's

report

on the February

zg rncident.

The crucial aspect of the conclusion of the committee,s placed blame of the final 1947 Massacre Governor chen yi, Generals Ko Yuan-fen and Peng Meng-chi. The statement, however was vague about chiang Kai-shek's role in the i ncid ent. 5. The DPP.goes to Washington A 30 member DPP delegation arrived in washington j-n March 1992, to seek international support for Taiwan,s bid to join , the United Nations and GATT. The delegates were well received by the U.S. Congress. In a congressional luncheon, Senator Kennedy expressed his concern about blacklisting of overseas Taiwanese. He issued a warning to the People,s Republic of China , that, according to the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, t h e U. S . ' s s wc is io n to establish diplomatic reration with china rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means. 7. Resolution on Taiwan blacklishing in U.S. Senate.

Three senators, Mr. Pel1, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Liebeman introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate, calling on the Taiwan authorities to stop bracklisting overseas Taiwanese. A similar resolution was introduced in the House by Congressman Solarz. Taiwan Conmunique is the anthorotive publication English you can subscribe on Taiwan's social and political situation. from THRAC at $2llyear.

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ltrant( you for your lttr of Januray i9, 1992, concrtllng trad6 betseen Taluan and Canida ;nd iTalrran th6 enclosed CoDmunlgui. I appreclate you taklng the tlue to rpress ydur vlers.-Iou! Ietter also raiaes a nulber of lsFues about Canadars rol.e ln prouotlng hulan rlihts and f a!! grateful-to you lor bilnglng thero to nyattentlon. f slll be sure to pasi on your auggistlons to roy colleagues durlng our dlscueeloni. Aga1n, thank you for vrltlng ue concernLng thls uatter and I uould llke to take ahis opportunlEy to uleh you vry success In your future endlavoure.-

Pi-LingLin, President Taiwanese Human RightsAssoc Box 67035,23fi) YongeStreet Toronto, ONT M4P lEO Dear Mr Lin, the I am*Titingto thankyouvcrymrrhforhavingtaken timc to write in supponofmy recent trip to Orina As you are awarthe brutality and death at TiannamenSquarcin June_1989 rightsinChina, of and rcPression deniat hutnan werebut a btoody ofthc profound illustration sinccthat time. Massiveviolations of which continue3 and indcedhasdeepened repression just freedom,werecondemned lastAugustby the humanrightsin Tibct, particularlyreligious Unircd Nadons SubCommissionon Minorities Tens of thousandsof political prisoners by continuc to bc hcld in harshconditioruin Chincseprisonsasdocumented thc September in you report of AEncaty Intcmational I canassure that my colleagucs the New Democratic Party and I wilt continuc to spcat out againsthuman tights abusesin China just as we do about violationsof humanrightsbcre in Canadaand in other countriesaround the world. Ccrtainly I rccognizcthat humanrigbts include not only civil and political rights but also AsFrankScottntote,"thetrappingsofdemocracyhang cconomigsocia!andculruralrights. loosely on an emasiatedbody politiC. Cqnada must end its suppon for the stntctural adjustmcntpolicics of the lntermtional Monctary Fund and World Bank that havegreatly widencdthagap betwcenrich andpoor and mustwork to ensurean end to the crushingdebt burden on thc Third World and a gcnuinepcace dividend" Canadamust maintain strong prcssureon China to respcct h|tEan rights' !o end arms sslcsto bloody regimessuch as of Burma,Sri knta, Syria,and lraq andto rcspcctthe right !o setf'determination the PeoPle of Tibct revkw by the StandingCommitteeon ExternalAffairs I havecalledfor a full ParliamentarJ and betweenCanada China ofthc bilateralretationship andlnternarionalTrade on all aspccts any in that countryandwouldwclcome inputyou maywishtc and the humanrightssituation on has provide. The Committee alreadyheld one set of hearings Chinaon February13. of hcarings. let Ptease me knowif youwouldlike to reccivcminutcs these anicle b) I In closing againthankyoufor your supportand inviteyou to readthe enclosed ProfessorTimothy BrookswhoscviewsI fully sharc. Sinrercly yourg

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