Justice commission reveals extent of KMT surveillanceBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Transitional Justice Commission yesterday presented a sixth batch of declassified Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) records at a forum in Taipei, with the contents showing abuse of power and violations of human rights extending up until the year 2000. The batch contained 77,000 files, mainly records of citizens targeted by the KMT, Commission Chairwoman Yang Tsui (楊翠) said, adding that most of them came from the archives of the Taiwan Provincial Police Division, the forerunner of the National Police Agency. Relatives of victims of the Martial Law era speak at an event organized by the Transitional Justice Commission in Taipei yesterday. “My father’s elder brother began farming in a remote mountain village, and they put him under surveillance. The KMT’s state apparatus clearly used huge resources ... to monitor suspected political dissidents,” she said.

Source: Taipei Times November 11, 2020 16:00 UTC