Policemen scuffle with activists outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei
Source: Reuters
Policemen scuffle with activists outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall before a ceremony to rename it in Taipei May 19, 2007. Taiwan erased the name Chiang Kai-shek on Saturday from a memorial hall built almost three decades ago to honour the former strongman ruler and rededicated it as a symbol of the island's democratic struggle. In a move that reflects Taiwan's bitter political divide, the government now run by a party diametrically opposed to Chiang's Nationalists (KMT) unveiled a plaque at the renamed National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall but pledged not to alter exhibits on the 25-hectare (62-acre) compound in central Taipei.
REUTERS/CLARO CORTES IV
REUTERS/CLARO CORTES IV
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