Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party staged a rally in Taipei on
Saturday to protest the authorities' recent "de-sinicizing" moves.
Former chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) Party, Ma
Ying-jeou (with blue cap), former KMT acting chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (L1)
and legislator John Hsiao-yen Chiang (R1) led a rally in Taipei to protest
the authorities' recent "de-sinicizing" moves, on Saturday, March 31,
2007. [cn-rn.com]
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Local media said about 20,000
people attended the rally, including Ma Ying-jeou, former chairman of KMT, Wang
Jin-pyng, leader of Taiwan's legislative body, and other senior party officials.
The Taiwan authorities, headed by Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP), have taken a number of "de-sinicizing" separatist
measures.
Chen announced on Feb. 8 that the authorities will remove the words "China"
or "Chinese" from the island's "government-run" organizations, enterprises and
from certain laws and regulations.
The move, a denial of history, would cause conflict on the island, said KMT
acting chairman Chiang Pin-kung at a press conference on Friday.
The DPP had contributed almost nothing in the past seven years, but
threatened Taiwan's economic sustainability, cross-Strait peace as well as
ethnic harmony for its own political gain,
Chiangsaid.