In move seen by the opposition as an attempt to de-sinocise Taiwan, the ruling party is pushing ahead with plans to rid the island of monuments to the dictator
Taiwan’s government has pledged to remove almost 800 statues of Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese military dictator who ruled the island for decades under martial law, but whose legacy remains a point of contentious debate.
Taiwan is dotted with statues of Chiang, and for years government and society has been embroiled in debate over what to do with them, in particular the largest inside Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek memorial hall. Many have already gone – often moved to a park in northern Taipei, which is now famous for the thousands of Chiang likenesses arranged around the grounds.On Monday Shih said the military in particular had been slow to take-up subsidies provided as an incentive to remove the statues.
The pledge to remove the remaining statues comes after calls for progress on the stalled decision about a statue of Chiang in Taipei that is more than six metres high and protected by a military police honour guard.
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