# Where is the old White Terror HQ in Ankang? **URL:** \ **Category:** Culture & History\ **Tags:** new-taipei, white-terror\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294 "2009-03-19T04:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bu\_Lai\_En](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Bu\_Lai\_En](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bu_Lai_En)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/1 "2009-03-19T04:30:15Z")
Front page of today’s Taipei Times shows an old Garrison Command white terror HQ called the Ankeng Guesthouse. Presumably it’s in Ankeng. I live out there and have explored all the roads around, so I’m curious if anyone knows where it is, and could provide me with an address or a Google Maps pinpoint. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Poagao](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Poagao](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poagao)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/2 "2009-03-19T04:44:39Z")
What a find; all the old buildings I’ve ever found had long-since been cleared out of just about everything. The article claims martial law lasted until 1992, though. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/3 "2009-03-19T05:00:50Z")
It’s certainly strange that that could have survived eight years of DPP administration. Scary if true. ---
**Author:** ![cfimages](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/cfimages/32/175176_2.png) [@cfimages](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/cfimages)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/4 "2009-03-19T05:03:22Z")
Makes you wonder what other interesting things are still out there to find. ---
**Author:** ![headhonchoII](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@headhonchoII](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/headhonchoII)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/5 "2009-03-19T05:51:07Z")
Just abandoned…strange to leave the documents lying around with human organs (well I guess people wouldn’t be exactly queuing to take them home…but there are lots of old military camps in the same situation around Taiwan. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/6 "2009-03-19T06:43:31Z")
It’s the Ankang (literally peace and health, ironic isn’t it?) Guesthouse. And it’s in Xindian, not Ankeng. ---
**Author:** ![Bu\_Lai\_En](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Bu\_Lai\_En](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bu_Lai_En)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/7 "2009-03-19T13:04:13Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > It’s the Ankang (literally peace and health, ironic isn’t it?) Guesthouse. And it’s in Xindian, not Ankeng. Ankeng IS in Xindian 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bu\_Lai\_En](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Bu\_Lai\_En](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bu_Lai_En)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/8 "2009-03-19T13:26:43Z")
I checked the Liberty Times and you’re right it is Ankang (安康), not Ankeng (安坑). Still could be in Ankeng though, as Ankang Rd is the main road of Ankeng. So anyone know where it is? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Jack](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/charlie_jack/32/246096_2.png) [@Charlie\_Jack](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Charlie_Jack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/9 "2009-03-19T16:25:04Z")
I’m not sure, and my knowledge of Chinese is very poor, but could this be it? > [@](#): > > 台北縣新店市雙城路12號 I saw the above address here: [taiwanimi.blogspot.com/2009/03/b … \_5493.html](http://taiwanimi.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post_5493.html) and here: [archive.lias.nccu.edu.tw/index.p … &Itemid=91](http://archive.lias.nccu.edu.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=91) Here are some more videos, apparently from news broadcasts (the first three were on the same page): [nownews.com/2009/03/19/91-2424430.htm](http://www.nownews.com/2009/03/19/91-2424430.htm) [nownews.com/2009/03/18/11490-2424055.htm](http://www.nownews.com/2009/03/18/11490-2424055.htm) [nownews.com/2009/03/18/11490-2424168.htm](http://www.nownews.com/2009/03/18/11490-2424168.htm) [n.yam.com/view/mkvideopage.php/20090318060536](http://n.yam.com/view/mkvideopage.php/20090318060536) ---
**Author:** ![shifty](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@shifty](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/shifty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/10 "2009-03-20T01:42:18Z")
> [@headhonchoII](#): > > Just abandoned…strange to leave the documents lying around with human organs (well I guess people wouldn’t be exactly queuing to take them home…but there are lots of old military camps in the same situation around Taiwan. Come on! seriously,this whole thing reeks of a bad propaganda stunt, incriminating documents and human organs just left lying around, for 20 years? :roflmao: at the same time Chen is in jail and the DPP is fighting desperately for some kind of relevance. Seriously folks a little critical thinking please! I love the videos,the musical score is bad horror movie/thriller…all the edits are tight anxious shots, good movie, bad plot; no suspension of disbelief possible with this kind of contrived tripe. Oh well ---
**Author:** ![headhonchoII](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@headhonchoII](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/headhonchoII)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/11 "2009-03-20T03:14:35Z")
Fair enough it sounds pretty suspect, yet I wouldn’t be surprised in Taiwan…things just get abandoned, as I mentioned there are many abandoned houses/camps belonging to ex-military all over Taiwan, Xindian has a large amount. ---
**Author:** ![Bu\_Lai\_En](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Bu\_Lai\_En](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bu_Lai_En)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/12 "2009-03-20T04:03:28Z")
> [@Charlie\_Jack](#): > > I’m not sure, and my knowledge of Chinese is very poor, but could this be it? > > > [@](#): > > > > 台北縣新店市雙城路12號 That’s it! Thanks. I just got back from checking it out. Shuangchen Rd is in Ankeng, just a couple of minutes from where I live. There was a big closed gate, but just as I rode up they opened it. There were a bunch of people there and trucks carting stuff away (rubble, old aircons and the like). > [@Poagao](#): > > The article claims martial law lasted until 1992, though. Strange. Not really. It says “The Taiwan Garrison Command was a military state security agency during the Martial Law era from 1949 to 1992.” Proper phrasing or punctuation could have made it clear that the 1949-1992 refers to the Taiwan Garrison Command which wasn’t disbanded until 1992. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Jack](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/charlie_jack/32/246096_2.png) [@Charlie\_Jack](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Charlie_Jack)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/13 "2009-03-20T08:03:37Z")
> [@Bu\_Lai\_En](#): > > Thanks. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/14 "2021-08-16T14:26:19Z")
Grave dig here to provide more details about the notorious White Terror detention center in Ankeng, with more information now organized and provided by Taiwan’s National Human Rights Museum. In response to the OP’s unanswered query from 2009, a precise address is provided as well: No. 42, Juguang Road, Xindian District, New Taipei City (新北市新店區莒光路42號). Some guy called “headhonchoII” participated in this exchange. I wonder if @Brianjones has seen this guy lately. Another guy called @Charlie_Jack also made some helpful contributions. In any case, it’s astonishing to see how much more we are learning in the past few years about this terrible period in Taiwan’s recent past. > **[Historical Sites of Injustice|Ankeng Detention Center](https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/en-us/injusticelandmarks-en/301602)** > > Taiwan Garrison Command, also called Ankeng Detention Center, was originally under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Provincial Security Command, which was reorganized into the Taiwan Garrison Command in 1958. It is not clear when the branch was... Guy ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Jack](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/charlie_jack/32/246096_2.png) [@Charlie\_Jack](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Charlie_Jack)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/15 "2021-08-16T19:46:44Z")
> [@afterspivak](#): > > In response to the OP’s unanswered query from 2009, a precise address is provided as well: No. 42, Juguang Road, Xindian District, New Taipei City (新北市新店區莒光路42號). Thanks for the information, @afterspivak! So a drug abuse treatment center is now on that site? https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211s5TOVamPr7sDF0Opsu4x4AQ%212m2%211d24.957311%212d121.5238187%213f263.86%214f8.962%215f0.75 Or am I mixed up? ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/16 "2021-08-16T22:41:04Z")
That’s what it looks like. The original buildings (if not the pain caused in them) are long gone. That’s why, in the 1990s, Shih Ming-teh wanted the so called “Oasis Villa” prison site on Green Island to be preserved (Lee Teng-hui agreed). And that’s why Annette Lu, in the 2000s, wanted the Jingmei detention center (in Xindian) to be preserved. And through preservation and reconstruction efforts, we have these two sites (there’s more on Green Island) that are now part of the National Human Rights Museum which (oddly) was initiated during Ma’s administration (he was very controversial concerning the repurposing of the Jingmei site as a “culture park”) before finally being launched in 2018. Guy ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/17 "2022-02-27T12:50:52Z")
> [@afterspivak](#): > > The original buildings (if not the pain caused in them) are long gone. Or are they? Tsai Ing-wen, accompanied by Chen Chu, reportedly visited the site earlier today. It is apparently to be folded into Taiwan’s National Human Rights Museum, which currently encompasses the White Terror sites on Green Island and the former Jingmei Detention Center in Xindian. ![image](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/9/2/929e7fd1f9c2ed07eec60a706768843ed1e296ec.jpeg) > **[President recommits to human rights ahead of 228 Memorial Day - Focus Taiwan](https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202202270010)** > > Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) reiterated the government's commitment to promoting human rights during a visit to a former detention center for political prisoners on Sunday, ahead of 228 Memorial Day, which commemorates the... Guy ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/18 "2022-02-27T12:55:16Z")
I was going to say I remember seeing something about remains on the Taiwan History FB group recently. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/19 "2022-02-27T12:58:12Z")
It’s apparently going to get museumized (as have the existing National Human Rights Museum sites). Guy ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Chris](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294/20 "2022-02-27T13:16:00Z")
Could it be this? 安康招待所 Try plugging that into Google Maps. [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/where-is-the-old-white-terror-hq-in-ankang/50294.md?page=2)