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Policemen scuffle with activists outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei
19 May 2007
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


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A protester holds the Chinese national flag as he walks outside Japan's embassy in Beijing June 18, 2007. A small group of Chinese, chanting "Lee Teng-hui is a traitor to the Chinese nation" and denouncing the former Taiwan president as a dog, held a brief protest at Japan's embassy in Beijing on Monday. The protesters -- outnumbered by police and reporters -- denounced Tokyo for letting the pro-Taiwan independence Lee visit recently, and demanded the release of a Chinese man arrested for throwing a bottle at the politician as he was heading home. The characters on his shirt reads: "Japan, get out of Diaoyu Islands".



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