#Taiwan's National Human Rights Museum launches new site introducing 45 #WhiteTerror sites of injustice to commemorate the #228Incident. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/zh-tw/injusticelandmarks

The Liuzhangli cemeteries in #Taipei's Xinyi District contain the graves and tombstones for #WhiteTerror victims whose bodies were not claimed. Owing to a search conducted by a survivor for his brother's body, the site became public knowledge in 1993. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/302038

#Kaohsiung's Fongshan Guest House was used for trying ideological convicts and extracting confessions through torture during the Navy #WhiteTerror Cases. It detained as many as 1,500 people, likely making it #Taiwan's largest postwar #interrogation prison. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301633

Ankeng Execution Grounds is situated on today's Anhua Road (the former "road to execution") in New Taipei's Xindian District; its dates of establishment and abolition are unknown. It was the 2nd largest execution grounds during the #WhiteTerror in #Taiwan. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301628

Ankeng Detention Center victims were used as prison labor for laundry, sewing, ironing, crafting, and farming; not only were they incarcerated politically, their labor power was also exploited economically. © 1968 floor plan drawn by Chen Hsin-chi. #Taiwan https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301602

#Kaohsiung's Navy Detention Center was used for internal clean-ups after the #Navy #WhiteTerror Incident in the 1950s. Each poorly ventilated cell had just one bowl-sized hole for supplying air, food, and drinking water for 40+ people confined. #Taiwan https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301589

#Elysium Funeral Home on #Taipei's Linsen Road was the main institution for processing the bodies of political prisoners during the #WhiteTerror in #Taiwan. Today, the demolished site is used by the Chang'an Pumping Station and #torii-dotted public parks. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301583

Neihu Freshman Corps was a transitional concentration camp in #Taipei. Because space was limited, it was unsuitable for reform through labor, but rather focused on ideological reform amid appalling diet and sanitation; mosquitoes and fleas were everywhere. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301582

#Detention Center of the Security Command, or Wanhua's Higashi Hongan-ji, was called "Big Temple" by intelligence officers, whereas the #Taiwanese called it the "Palace of Yama" or " #purgatory on earth" for often secretly #executing prisoners in the 1950s. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301630

At the Secrets Bureau, a place where people "can only go in but never leave," #survivors recall that toothbrushes were used to extract confessions from women, and #prisoners begging all night with Beijing accent: "Forgive me! Forgive me! I did not do it!" . https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301636

#Taipei Sanzhangli #Interrogation House was known for its strict management and confessions extracted through #torture, including blinding with bright light, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, noise at damaging decibel levels & psychological intimidation. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301536

Covering an area from Civil Boulevard to Linsen North Road, #Taipei's Huashan Cargo Terminal was a transit hub for transferring political victims to #GreenIsland via #train and vessel. Prisoners were paired up by having one of their hands cuffed together. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/296686

The #Taiwan Provincial Institute of Production Education specialized in carrying out ideological #reform. Many political prisoners were #women who served time with their #children. It was praised as a "Happy Village" comprising a school and a factory. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301580

At the Air Force #Detention Center, "Those who constantly violate the regulations shall be jailed in #isolated single cells without being let out as #punishment; those sentenced to the death penalty shall be jailed in single cells under strict monitoring." https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/300092

At #Taiwan's first #military prison after #WWII, "every month there are many who contract tuberculosis, dysentery and beriberi." The Qingdao East Road structures have been demolished; on the block now stand the #Taipei Sheraton Grand Hotel and other sites. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301298

Detention Center of the Criminal Investigation Corps in #Taipei's Datong District contained an underground "water dungeon" of about three square meters. Water would be poured into the #dungeon until it reached prisoners' necks, immobilizing their limbs. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/296697

#Indigenous leader ’Uongʉ Yata’uyungana was arrested and executed during the #WhiteTerror for being involved in the #228Incident. His tomb is located on a quiet coffee farm in his hometown Dabang (today's Dabang Village in Alishan Township, Chiayi County). https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301584

During island-wide arrests, Atayal elites like Losing Watan were arrested in the "Mountain Tribes #Communist #Rebellion Case" and executed with other #indigenous leaders on April 17, 1954. He only received redress after the lifting of martial law. #Taiwan https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301632

Completed in 1998, the Heroes of #Democracy Park is located at Xiangshan Village, Miaoli County (adjacent to the Confucius Temple and near the Xiangshan trail).

It is #Taiwan's first park established by civilians to commemorate the #WhiteTerror. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301585