Hundreds of students on Friday laid siege to Taiwan’s Ministry of Education building in Taipei to express their grievance over proposed changes to the country’s high school curricula.
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By mid-morning Friday there were still at least 200 raging protesters in the compound demanding a response from the ministry, which has so far remained silent.
The Sunflower Movement protest seems likely to determine the outcome of January’s presidential election by voting in a president from a independence-leaning party, something Communist Party rulers across the narrow Taiwan Strait will never allow.
“Minister Wu will continue communicating”, Mao said after attending a Transportation Ministry event amid increasing calls from protesters and opposition parties for Wu to step down.
Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa said it would sue 24 senior high school students over the break in.
Late Thursday, about 500 hundreds protesters gathered in front of the Education Ministry building, calling for the Wu to resign. “Will you step down and retract the revision?”
China formally regards Taiwan as a part of its territory, even though the island has been governing itself for over 60 years, since the two sides separated at the end of 1949’s Chinese civil war.
The 20-year-old had been charged with breaking into the education ministry last week. He committed suicide in his New Taipei City home on Thursday. Lin’s mother asked for other protesters not to follow his example.
He told how he was “very disappointed” when his parents expressed disapproval of his participation in the protests after a visit from his school principal.
“I hope all the children involved with the curriculum discussion will express their opinion in an appropriate channel”, she said, sobbing, in a recording played to reporters at a press conference held by the ministry.
Lin appeared to be certainly one of 30 university students, in association with about three newshounds, whom were actually found distributing heroin just last week for cracking straight into the agency in wrath within the new your childhood program, which often pupils say favours China’s look at the island’s record.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Dozens of students stormed Taiwan’s Education Ministry on Friday demanding that officials take responsibility for a student leader who killed himself in an apparent protest over curriculum changes that critics say overemphasize China’s ties to the island. “It has something to do with the history and the national identity (of Taiwan)”, he said.
