Why Taiwan wants to remove its Chiang Kai-shek statues

Visitors take photos of a statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Taoyuan, Taiwan , Jun 20, 2020. As Taiwan 's ruling Democratic Progressive Party gets ready for a historic third term in power, a campaign to remove the statues of former Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek is in the spotlight again.Recently, lawmakers from his party have pressed the government to speed up the purge of what they consider as symbols of authoritarianism linked to Beijing-friendly opposition party Kuomintang .

His government was recognised by many countries as the legitimate government of China, and Taiwan controlled China's seat in the United Nations till Mr Chiang died in 1975. Some of the statues stand in a park surrounding his mausoleum in Taoyuan city, located in the north of the island. They ended up there when the government began removing statues as early as 2000.The collection of Chiang statues at the park may grow larger soon, with the DPP government set to accelerate the purging of the remaining Chiang statues on the island.The DPP does not consider Taiwan as part of China.

During the subsequent years of the “White Terror” period, Mr Chiang’s government ruled Taiwan under martial law, which ended only in the mid-1980s.

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