Building of NTU memorial for Chen Wen-chen begunStaff writer, with CNANational Taiwan University (NTU) student groups on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial to honor Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), a democracy advocate who died under mysterious circumstances and whose body was found on the NTU campus in 1981. On Thursday, NTU’s undergraduate and graduate student associations and the Dr Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation and Museum officially began construction on a memorial square, after reaching their fundraising goal of NT$12 million (US$405,501) earlier this year. People attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the Dr Chen Wen-chen Incident Memorial Square on the National Taiwan University campus in Taipei on Thursday. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times“Without the students’ efforts, this groundbreaking could never have happened,” foundation chairwoman Yang Huang Mei-hsing (楊黃美幸) said. On July 2, the campus held a memorial event at which Vice President William Lai (賴清德) and others spoke to mark the 39th anniversary of Chen’s death.

Source: Taipei Times July 17, 2020 15:56 UTC