COVID-19: Organizers create ‘public burial’ for victims of virusRECOGNIZING ‘THE POWERLESS’: The memorial would include debates, which the organizers said were necessary due to an ‘inability to freely discuss certain topics’ onlineBy Yang Cheng-yu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerA symbolic “public burial” for the victims of COVID-19 is to be held at Taipei’s Liberty Square from tomorrow to Sept. 6 as a memorial to the dead and a protest against the government, the event’s organizers said yesterday. The memorial is to consist of performances, artwork and nightly debates, Wuo told a news conference outside the Legislative Yuan’s Chun-hsien Building in Taipei. Psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo arranges a display as part of a symbolic “public burial” for the victims of COVID-19 at Taipei’s Liberty Square yesterday. Due to the “inability to freely discuss certain topics” online, psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩) and other outspoken critics would be holding nightly debates at the tent, Wuo added. When democracy pioneer Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水) died of typhoid in 1931, his supporters organized a “public burial” to protest the Japanese colonial government, he said.

Source: Taipei Times August 26, 2021 15:56 UTC