[quote=“mr_boogie”]The only way for this totally foggy area to be seen equally is to put all the evidence outside. Too much rubish is thrown to the eyes of people, from one Shi-Da and the other.
However, there are undeniable facts: KMT government did commit mass selective murdering to assure theyr position. And if you look at history and see how CKS responded to the comunnist threat or any other threat whatsoever, the 2-28 incident just becomes acceptable, because it goes with it’s modus operandi. However, becoming more acceptable doesn’t mean it happened.[/quote]
The massacre of the intellectuals is commonly interpreted that the KMT did this in order to secure their position in Taiwan. However, were intellectuals murdered because they were involved in the groups that were negotiating with the government during the standoff, or were intellectuals massacred because they were intellectuals and the KMT didn’t want the Taiwanese to have leaders?
This is a critical question. The 228 incident happened in early 1947 and the KMT position was not lost yet in the mainland. The troops were sent to Taiwan to put down the upridisg and Chiang probably didn’t think he was going to have to retreat there just yet.
I’m not insisting on any one point of view, but I find it questionable that the troops killed intellectuals to secure their position for decades to come in Taiwan when their focus was really on the mainland at the time.
I’m just throwing this out there and I think this is open to do debate, but isn’t it also reasonable that leaders of the groups holding positions in cities were intellectuals that were targeted by the troops? Therefore, to the Taiwanese, it looked like their leaders were getting killed off so the KMT could secure their position.
However, I don’t agree with this widely believed interpretation of history that when the KMT first got to Taiwan they took out all the intellectuals to secure their position.
Because if the intellectuals were murdered because the KMT was afraid of being overthrown, then why didn’t they murder them right when they arrived in Taiwan in 1945? Or were they murdered because they were in leadership positions in the uprising in Feb. 1947 that wanted to overthrow the government?