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Transitional Justice in Austria: Lessons for Taiwan
(in Chinese, English version)
Christian Schafferer
Modern
East Asia
Vol. 6, No. 2 (March 2007)
ISSN
1684-5218
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Abstract (Chinese abstract)
After the Second World War, the Allied Forces
and the interim Austrian government were determined to deal with the various
crimes committed during the NS period.
The aim of this paper is (1) to
give an insight into the approaches taken by the Austrian government to reckon
with legacies of widespread and systematic crimes against humanity and (2) to
draw a critical comparison with developments in Taiwan.
The paper consists of
four parts. The first, gives an overview of the legal institutions that were
established immediately after the war to deal with crimes against humanity. The
second part looks at the legal provisions requesting the prosecution of those
questioning the existence of the Nazi crimes or glorifying the Nazi regime.
In the third part, the
attitude of Taiwan's leading intellectuals towards transitional justice is
discussed in detail.
The last part of this paper is a comparative analysis of how Austria
dealt with its past and how the people of Taiwan have been obliged to forget
theirs for the sake of “peace.” The main purpose of this comparison is to
assist the reader in her or his effort to reflect thoroughly on the nature of
the crimes committed by the KMT regime, especially the 2-28 Massacre, and
the only logical legal and moral consequences thereof. The author requests the immediate dissolution of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the prosecution of those who committed the various crimes against humanity and the prohibition of historical revisionism.
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