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A memorial park at the site of the POW camp was opened in 1997. [9] Although the minerals have since been depleted, the town still attracts many visitors to its Gold Ecological Park, which opened in October 2004. Jinguashi was named a potential World Heritage Site in 2002. [10]
Two years later, the building was made the home of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum and the park was rededicated as 228 Peace Memorial Park. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The 228 Memorial Monument was designed by Taiwanese architect Cheng Tzu-tsai , [ 8 ] who was convicted of attempted murder in 1971 following a 1970 assassination attempt on Chiang Ching-kuo . [ 9 ]
The Taiwan POW Memorial Park now stands in memory of the POWs that died in the harsh mining conditions. [ 5 ] The site and the surrounding mining infrastructure are listed as potential world heritage sites.
Inscription of 228 Peace Memorial Monument： After World War II , Taiwan from Japan ruled that liberal democracy. Who would have expected the Chinese regime received Taiwan , Chen Yi ranks corruption and incompetence, privilege run amok, coupled with postwar economic system broken, high prices, resulting in Taiwanese people lives difficult ...
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen renewed her pledge to strengthen Taiwan's self-defense on Wednesday as she visited a war memorial from the last time Taiwan and China battled. Tsai, visiting the ...
Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for former leader Chiang Kai-shek as part of ongoing efforts to end the "veneration of authoritarianism", the culture ministry ...
Allied prisoners of war (POW) were used as forced labor in camps throughout Taiwan with the camp serving the copper mines at Kinkaseki being especially heinous. [120] Of the 430 Allied POW deaths across all fourteen Japanese POW camps on Taiwan, the majority occurred at Kinkaseki.
[9]: 15 15,000 Polish partisans taken into custody after the Warsaw Uprising were recognized as prisoners of war and deported to POW camps. [1]: 294 Romanian POWs held by USSR: between 100,000 to 250,000 [31] Starving, emaciated Soviet prisoners of war in front of a barrack in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria