February 29, 2012 ( 228 lament)

It occurred to me that I had been rather ignorant of the day of 228. It was a date where a massacre was issued from the government of Taiwan that took the lives of many innocent educated members of Taiwan. Most people today regarded this day as a holiday, but that is actually deeply disrespectful. As a taiwanese, I feel that it is my duty to put this information out there so the tears and blood spilled will not be wasted. The Taiwanese government at the time of 228 was an enclosed one. Taiwan at that time was only a named democracy, but was actually under a rule that resembled in some degree, dictatorship. The people had little rights of freedom and no freedom of speech. The elites of society, however, rose against this. They saw the government as unjust and many did what they could to educate the public about true democracy. Many were killed and imprisoned and or exiled. On the date 228, thousands of innocent elites and their associates were executed. The blood they shed and the scar that was ripped open that day will never mend. It will, remain forever in every Taiwanese's heart. Each and every year, the president of Taiwan would apologize to the victims of the 228 massacre and would receive nothing but censure in return. The mistakes made at that time was too grand to be covered by a slight bow of the head. In this blog post, I send victims of 228 my sincere mourn and lamentations.