Due to the impossibility of pursuing criminal liability, transitional justice must now restore the truth as far as possible for later generations to learn from. However, laws and regulations protecting classified information further aggravate the situation. It is also impossible to imagine what kind of national security information could be listed as “permanently classified.”The Legislative Yuan last year enacted the Political Archives Act (政治檔案條例) specifically to clear obstacles created by the Classified National Security Information Protection Act. This vague and ambiguous wording means that key evidence in the Lin family murders is sealed up for another 10 years. Exceptions of this kind are not much different from the permanent classification stipulated in the Classified National Security Information Protection Act.

Source: Taipei Times March 01, 2020 15:56 UTC