To commemorate Taiwan’s 228 Incident, FAPA Young Professional members are encouraged to take following actions in a coordinated Facebook campaign:

1) Change your profile picture to feature the logo below:

2) Change your status message to the suggested one-liner below:

(Your Name) is commemorating the Taiwanese genocide of 1947

3) Post on your wall a brief summary description of the genocide suggested below:

A brief summary of the 2-28 incident from the Brookings Institution:

On February 28, 1947, the arrest of a cigarette vendor in Taipei led to large-scale protests by the native Taiwanese against the corruption and repression of Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalist government, which had come over from China (to Taiwan) after Japan’s defeat by the Allied forces in 1945. Following the protests, troops that Chiang’s government secretly sent from mainland China rounded up and executed an entire generation of leading figures, including students, lawyers, and doctors. Scholars estimate that up to 28,000 people lost their lives in the turmoil. During the “White Terror” of the subsequent years, the Nationalists ruled Taiwan under martial law, which ended only when democratization set in during the mid-1980s. The “228 Incident” remains a defining event in the political divide that exists in Taiwan today.