National Transitional Justice Database

Transitional justice is one of President Tsai’s major platform, and now we have a database thanks to the efforts.

There’s a lot to be desired and plenty of room for improvement. For example, you can only download the split data as spreadsheet files, instead of it being displayed in the browser.

You can still try to pull out stats like this
Death sentence ratio by place of origin during the White Terror Era

Using this database researchers said Chiang Kai-shek personally meddled with 3000 plus cases, 876 of which resulted in a death penalty.

In the case of this poor chap for example

Kuo Tzu-yuan (郭子淵) had his sentence sent back to courts 41 times, 4 of which by CKS personally. He was given the death sentence under CKS’ insistence.

It’s a start towards the right direction.

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