Taiwan Church News

3218 Edition

October 28 - November 11, 2013

Church Ministry News

Taiwan Recovery Day From Japanese Ruling: A Suffering Day For Taiwan's Aboriginal

Reported By Chiu Kuo-rong

In the afternoon of October 25th, Taiwan First People party, whose members are mainly the aboriginal, held a press conference at the Katagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office pleading that " October 25th is the suffering date of the aboriginal! You (ROC Government) recovered Taiwan, while we the aboriginal therefore suffered ".

Rev. Mayau Kumu, a pastor from Shi-mei Presbytery and also the Director of DPP ethnic affairs, urged the aboriginals to trace back their cultural roots and identities as the education system of ROC can do nothing good but stigmatize the aboriginals. Especially, backed by state machine, the traditional cultural preservation land of the aboriginals were easily merged and acquired by the big conglomerate. And behind these dirty deals, KMT is always the number beneficiary party.

Rev. Uduf Lebak, a pastor from Ulai Presbyterian church of Tayal Presbytery, bitterly bombasted on the illegal land appropriation from the government that "Republic of China is a faked and hypocrite government"! "We want to reiterate that the Aboriginals are the original masters of Taiwan", said resolutely by Rev. Uduf Lebak. He urged the goverment to return the acquired land back to the original, if ROC thought herself is a democracy state. Lebak defiantly remarked, "Do not push the aboriginal to do any thing violent, another 228 tradegy, just because we can be ignored as too little people we have!"

Hwang Zhe-huei, an Academica Sinica scholar from Ethnics Institute, also attended the assembly and pointed out the statement of "Taiwan and China are from same literature and same species" by President Ma on the Double Tenth National address is a breach against both the constitution and law. No matter from the addendum of current constitution, the specific administrative "laws of protecting cultural assets", the aboriginal are always mentioned and Taiwan's multi-culture are implied. In addition, there is still a Hakka Affairs Council to prove the multi-ethnicity in Taiwan. "How can it be there is only one ethnic people existed in Taiwan - the Chinese?", exclaimed by Hwang.

Translated by Peter Wolfe