• Near A Quarter Million Taiwanese Gathered to Protest for Human Rights Violation in Its Military
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Source : [url]http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1015041[/url] [QUOTE=CNN;41694619] Near a quarter million Taiwanese marched and gathered in front of the Presidential Office Building on the night of August 3rd (local time) demanding justice for the tragic death of young Corporal Hung Chung-Chu (洪仲丘) and the improvement of human rights issues in the country’s military, Taiwan. The mysterious death of Corporal Hung has been the center of this island’s attention for a month since its reporting in early July. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Taiwan News;41694619] Hung Chung-Chu has been dead for almost a month but the truth of his death is not yet revealed. [img]http://twimg.edgesuite.net/images/ReNews/20130716/420_0a1561795b369c4229b87b05591f5dad.jpg[/img] [img]http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1990/4vyz.jpg[/img] Many other Military compatriots who knew him said that the direct officers of them did not like him, they often get soldiers in the military brig for small mistakes. So, a few days before Chung-Chu retires from the army, they gave him corporal punishment for " bringing a phone". Chung-Chu seemed to be really uncomfortable in the whole process, what happened to him after was a mystery because the monitors happened to have the important 30 minutes " not recorded". [img]http://www.chinatimes.com/newsphoto/2013-08-02/656/20130802004573.jpg[/img] Chung-Chu still died after the immediate help without any medical equipments. The few officers that killed were made to go to Hung Chung-Chu's funeral. Staring at the reporter's camera repeatly, Fan-ZuShian acted like he was so sad. [img]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3941/gyij.jpg[/img] The officers then all bailed from the event. They get a lot of attention in the internet. Even the president that has not yet done anything. [img]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9359/qdyn.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Taiwan News;41694619] People are sure that events like this have happened many times already before for another few soldiers that died before.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Taiwan News;41694619] [img]http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5826/f3q2.jpg[/img] (Large picture) More than 250000 people of Taiwanese then gathered in front of the Presidential palace for Human Rights Violation in Its Military.[/QUOTE]
In the thumbnail it looks as if the people are lightbulbs. Anywars, this is interesting, I don't know the full story, but USUALLY it's nice to see people taking action. And also nice to see CNN reporting on something international.
I was born in Taiwan. I thought that was tangentially relevant.
[QUOTE=lifehole;41705537]In the thumbnail it looks as if the people are lightbulbs. Anywars, this is interesting, I don't know the full story, but USUALLY it's nice to see people taking action. And also nice to see CNN reporting on something international.[/QUOTE] Basically, it's a soldier got overworked in the process of corporal punishment and died. Now people think that the military are hiding the truth of his death. [img]http://www.chinatimes.com/newsphoto/2013-08-02/656/20130802004573.jpg[/img]
Jesus, now the protest is littered with people holding on big brother is watching sign and the news constantly plays the taiwanese version of les miserables do you hear the people sing
update : Now there are even songs for Hung Chung-Chu. there's english subtitles in this one [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSLQil8WFk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUIECJyQ6meDyN-UnVHgXAMA[/media] and these : these are songs about what the people in the country think and what they want. No subtitles though, sorry. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJl_3gvDCXU[/media] Here are other versions of the song with video footages. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj6GS8LkLqM[/url] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQ6ewr0oHo[/url] This is the part where everyone sing this song : [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQGaIS0S9M[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XqBQNTsq_4[/media] It's not that special, but I think it's pretty cool that the civilians are all making songs for this incident. also [QUOTE=;]something someone captured that day when people went up the streets [img]http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/286/z14g.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Many people blame Ma the president for doing nothing, Now the presidential palace announced that they're gonna start jailing anyone who said bad things about the president in the future [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kP4kCDEtbM[/media] People are all singing the "taiwan version of les miserable" with their phones WHOLE FOOTAGE OF THE PARADE IN HD [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmgqc4oiFZI[/media]
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