Today is 228 Remembrance Day

Today not only is a holiday, but also is a speacial day that we should know. As a colleage student, I think we should understand the history about The 228 Incident and reflection. The 228 Incident, which occurred less than a yearand a half after Retrocession, started out with anti-smuggling personnel and military police units,because anti-tobacco smuggling units dealt with acase inappropriately, which led to a petition by thepeople of Taipei to demonstrate on February 28, anda strike by industrial workers and storekeepers. And because on that day government guards shot at thepetitioning crowds, the confusion could not becontained, and so the petition to punish the murdersturned into a fight against the government, andwent on to become a conflict between the peopleof Taiwan and the mainlanders. The resistance andconflict immediately spread throughout the entireisland, making what was originally just a publicsecurity incident into a political movement.Local leaders took the opportunity to demand all-outreform, and because some areas were armed withmilitary and police weapons, armed conflict ensued.This transformed the face of Taiwan's politics,economics, society and culture in the immediatepostwar period, foreshadowing what was to comeafter 228. The 228 Incident's subsequent influenceon all of Taiwan has been deep and serious. After understanding the history of the 228 incident. I think we should reflectg on the past in the light of the present, the history of the 228 Incident is both deeply educational and inspiring.