Name: 『超級民主的臺灣騙你的啦。』臺灣吧-第6集 Taiwan Bar EP6 Democratic Taiwan?
Uploaded: 2016-06-16T03:21:39.000Z
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Today let’s talk about Taiwan’s hard-earned democracy

Under the pleasant social atmosphere today . Either trash-talking on Facebook

It wasn’t formed by just some sunflowers or some suncake

To get a closer look at the history of Taiwan’s democracy

let’s go back to the time when Taiwan had no democracy

In 1949, KMT was defeated by People's Liberation Army

In order to make Taiwan a base to prepare for “striking back mainland China”

KMT built a “single-party state” to consolidate its political power

We can find it in the lyrics of the national anthem of the R.O.C.

For example, “Three Principles of the People, the foundation of our ‘party’.”

Party? Why not our “country”? Or our “people”? Why party? Why? WHY?

In the two following pictures, is the one with the bigger sun

“Um, neither, mine does not have a sun”

Congratulations! You’re very honest! Take both as a reward!

When a single political party is in control of the government

and all other parties are outlawed or take only a limited amount of positions

So, what are the terrors that Taiwanese might face under single-party state?

and how can Taiwanese work their way to democracy?

Nationalist government announced the imposition of Taiwan martial law because it was facing trouble inside and outside of the country

Taiwan had gone through a period of time that

everything was forbidden and restricted for the public to do

And the Nationalist government, which retreated to Taiwan

was deeply worried about how Mao Zedong might took over Taiwan

So it tightened the control over Taiwanese even more

Criminal Code of the Republic of China Article 100

Act for the Control and Punishment of Rebellion

arresting anyone who “possibly”, “probably”, “seemingly”, “likely”, “maybe”

was antigovernment, a pro-communist or support Taiwan independence

Aside from that, Nationalist government also encouraged Taiwanese to rat each other out

If one hid a rebellion, he would be sentenced as well

it was like there were an army of hall monitors everywhere on the island

making many innocent Taiwanese falsely accused

This tense environment caused by the government was named White Terror

During White Terror, the victims who were imprisoned or executed

It was even more horrifying than the casualties caused by the plague during Japanese rule

And the number of families and friends of those victims was imponderable

Constitution of the Republic of China has gone into effect

But not until only after less than half a year

Nationalist government stated that in order to fight against Mao Zedong

“Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion” was put into practice

This not only dramatically increased the power of the president

but also made the Constitution of the Republic of China vanish

Where did the Constitution of the Republic of China go?

however Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion had stayed strong

What was the exact purpose of leaving it standing?

Taiwan, under the period of time that we had no democracy and no freedom

water cannons, tear gas and armed police stood in the way of striving for democracy

or “made” not being able to break the law ever again...

But like a minute passes every sixty seconds

There were still a group of people dedicated to fight against the Nationalist government

Besides those who fought for democracy in the Provincial Consultative Council

Lei Chen was the editor-in-chief of Free China Journal The only person who dared to fight against single-party state would be the one, the only Mr. Lei Chen

Not only did it criticize Nationalist government severely

but strongly opposed to Chiang Kai-shek expanding his power

saying that he remained the president without election

WITHOUT election. WITHOUT election. WITHOUT election.

These criticism of course pissed the Nationalist government off

so KMT took away Lei Chen’s KMT party registration

Lei Chen wanted to form a new political party, China Democracy Party

was accused and sentenced to ten years in prison