Where is the old White Terror HQ in Ankeng?

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So we would get: No. 126, Yuhe St, Xindian District, New Taipei City—not the same address as the demolished / rebuilt site discussed above.

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I live in Ankang, this morning I was held up for ages at some traffic lights by the police until some blacked-out SUVs with a load of police cars and red plate police motorbikes as escorts rolled through. Must have been them!

I’ve been to the Jingmei ex-prison before, and it’s a sobering look at Taiwan’s recent past. I think a lot of younger Taiwanese are a little ignorant of these times, my wife certainly was, no one talked about it when she was younger. I don’t know if things have changed and kids learn about it in school now, but it’s important to preserve sites like this for future generations.

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I’m not completely sure of this, but I suspect that the above unusable link has moved to this unsecure URL (please be advised that entering will be at your own risk):

I couldn’t figure out how to reach the NCCU URLs, or the material in them, not even by using the Internet Archive.

Also, I guess this–

–has changed to this:

since Taipei County became New Taipei City, and Xiandian (Hsin Dien/Hsindien) City became Xiandian (Hsin Dien/Hsindien) District.

I couldn’t reach any of the videos from 2009, and while a search revealed YouTube URLs that may have contained the same or similar videos at one time, those YouTube URLs I visited indicated that the videos were no longer viewable, or used words to that effect.

Here’s an old Apple Daily article on the place (or I guess it is; I don’t really know Chinese) but it is NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK :nsfw: (or mixed company, and especially not suitable for children), because there’s a photo that shows transparent containers which reportedly contain human body parts.

https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/20090318/QJ274VYNS6LK2RQ5VP2FOWP3PE/

And thanks to @Marco, for fixing my post!

Edited to add:

Here’s a YouTube video from the twimi.net site linked above in this post:

Edited to add again:

If you go to the place on Google Maps and choose a Street View from March of 2009, it looks as if you can see the area more or less the way it looks in the YouTube video at about 1:23:

It also seems as if a news
camera crew or crews is/are there on the site.

I still haven’t figured out where everything is, though, or where it used to be.

Anyway, I hope this helps anyone who’s interested in this place and/or its history.

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