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Witness History: Archive 2014

Taiwan '228 Incident'

9 min • 13 mars 2014

In early 1947 Chinese nationalist troops under Chiang Kai-Shek killed 20,000 civilians in Taiwan. Local Taiwanese had been protesting about abuses by the newly installed Kuomintang government. We hear the story of one boy who witnessed the killings.

(Photo: Activists form the numbers 228 at a Taipei square on 28 February, 2009, in memory of the thousands of islanders who were killed. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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