1979 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Taiwan
The Kaohsiung Eight arrested. From left to right: Chang Chun-hung, Huang Hsin-chieh, Chen Chu, Yao Chia-wen, Shih Ming-teh, Annette Lu, Lin Hung-hsuan [zh].
Kaohsiung Incident
Chinese
高雄事件
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gāoxióng shìjiàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Ko-hiông Sū-kiāⁿ
Formosa Incident
Traditional Chinese
美麗島事件
Simplified Chinese
美丽岛事件
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Měilìdǎo shìjiàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Bí-lē-tó Sū-kiāⁿ
The Kaohsiung Incident, also known as the Formosa Incident, the Meilidao Incident, or the Formosa Magazine incident,[1][2] was a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period.
The incident occurred when Formosa Magazine, headed by released political prisoner Shih Ming-teh and veteran opposition legislator Huang Hsin-chieh, and other opposition politicians held a demonstration commemorating Human Rights Day to promote and demand democracy in Taiwan.[3] At that time, the Republic of China was a one-party state under the Kuomintang, called Dang Guo, and the government used this protest as an excuse to arrest the main leaders of the political opposition.
The Kaohsiung Incident is widely regarded as a seminal event in the post-war history of Taiwan and the watershed of the Taiwan democratization movements.[4] The event had the effect of galvanizing the Taiwanese community into political actions and is regarded as one of the events that eventually led to democracy in Taiwan.
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^Tang, Chih-Chieh (June 2007). "勢不可免的衝突：從結構／過程的辯證看美麗島事件之發生" [An Unavoidable Conflict: An Explanation of the Kaohsiung Incident in Terms of the Dialectic of Structure and Process] (PDF). 台灣社會學 (Taiwanese Sociology) (in Chinese (Taiwan)) (13). Taipei: 71–128. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-24.
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