Sunflower leaders protest TAO official's visit
By Joy Lee, The China
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Sunflower movement student leaders Lin
Fei-fan (林飛帆) and Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷) yesterday led dozens of people to protest outside the Novotel near Taiwan
Taoyuan International Airport against the meeting between Director of the
Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Zhang Zhijun and Chairman of Taiwan's Mainland
Affairs Council (MAC) Wang Yu-chi.
Zhang, as China 's
most senior official ever to visit Taiwan
Lin, Chen and other protesters held red cards and yelled
out “red card for the meeting of Wang and Zhang” and “complete the legislation
for the cross-strait agreement supervisory act before negotiating” outside of
the hotel during the meeting yesterday.
Meanwhile, based on the Facebook page of Democracy
Tautin, members of the group and the Democratic Front Against the Cross-Strait
Trade in Services Agreement stayed in Novotel on Tuesday night, preparing to
protest against the meeting of Wang and Zhang on Wednesday.
However, on Wednesday morning, Democracy Tautin said that
a group of people in black who claimed to be customer service agents of the
hotel broke into the rooms, which triggered an argument.
Democracy Tautin said that the police did not give any
reasons for why they broke into their hotel rooms, and police even claimed that
their actions were legal which was a lie to cover up their use of violence.
According to Democracy Tautin, they will work harder to
stop the government from using inappropriate violent actions and protect Taiwan
Official Response to the Incident
Aviation Police Bureau (APB) yesterday said that the
hotel manager and security guards were the people who attempted to break into
the rooms to ask the guests who refused to register their names to leave.
According to the APB, there were police officers who
happened to be at the scene when the security officers of the hotel attempted
to enter the hotel rooms by force, so the officers took action to collect
evidence, which led to the misunderstanding that police officers intended to
break into the rooms.
The two previously met in China 's
eastern city of Nanjing in February in the first
government-to-government talks since Taiwan
Wednesday's visit marks the most senior-level talks
between the two sides to take place in Taiwan
According to Wang, the TAO delegation will meet with his
council to discuss the development of cross-strait ties, economic cooperation,
regional economic integration and progress on establishing reciprocal
representative offices.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-Lin Fei-fan(林飛帆) and Chen We-ting(陳為廷)
WHEN-June 26,2014
WHAT-protest
WHY-
WHERE-T
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1. protester:抗議者
2. Democratic:民主的
3. mainland:大陸
4. legal:法律
Lin Fei-fan and Chen We-ting is brave.
回覆刪除They protest outside the Novotel for Taiwan's democracy.
Whether their request is right or not, their behavior is praiseworthy.
No matter how they are opposed to the matter, I think they can find out a better way to solve it. Maybe they can use more rational way, and avoid people hurt.
回覆刪除Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting are brave to do what they want to do and express people's thoughts to the authority. No matter the way they express their thoughts is right or not, the authority should listen to them and find a better solution to solve this problem.
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