The National Human Rights Museum and Academia Sinica Institute of Taiwan History co-hosted a two-day seminar on the White Terror period Dec. 28-29 at Academia Sinica in Taipei City. (Courtesy of Ministry of Culture)
 

The National Human Rights Museum and Academia Sinica Institute of Taiwan History cohosted a two-day workshop Dec. 28-29 on the White Terror period, comprising seminars and discussions, at which an integrated research platform was also unveiled.

The two bodies have been cooperating since 2017 to compile and streamline White Terror period information resources into an integrated search platform covering five main categories. These comprise people, events and cases, institutions and organizations, laws and systems, and search terms.

According to the Ministry of Culture, around 200 people attended the event, including academics, surviving victims and relatives of victims’ families. Seminars included discussions by exiled family members on their hopes for social justice and descendants’ journeys in uncovering victims’ experiences.

Themed discussions focused on the experience of surveillance, where family members shared their thoughts on reading surveillance files and two subjects of surveillance described their own reactions to content relating to themselves.

The NHRM said that sharing research in the two-day workshop gave more diverse perspectives on this period of history, which in turn laid a basis for transformational justice. (POC-E)