wfn.org | TCN:“Taiwan Human Rights Map” now available online

["Lydia Ma" <enews@pctpress.org>]

>Taiwan Church News

>2983 Edition

>April 27~May 3, 2009

“Taiwan Human Rights Map” now available online

>Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

>Written by Lydia Ma

A group of pro-independence and pro-human rights organizations in Taiwan  have teamed up to create a “Taiwan Human Rights

Map” online via Google Maps. By typing “Taiwan human rights  map” in Chinese characters in Google Maps’ search engine,  users

will now find a map of Taiwan with different locations across Taiwan  highlighted using red roses.

Taiwan Church Press happens to be one of these locations and has been  enshrined as a place where a battle for freedom of religion

took place. Other locations that appear on this map include the site  where the Lin Family Massacre occurred, as well as Lo-Sheng

Sanatorium. The site of the massacre became Gi-kong Presbyterian Church  in 1982, while the sanatorium became the first hospital

>housing leprosy patients in Taiwan.

According to Deng Nan Jung Foundation, one of the organizations involved  in this project, many places in Taiwan have a touching

human rights story or struggle to tell. However, a lot of these stories  and places have been forgotten with time. Therefore, the

foundation is inviting those interested in human rights to participate  in this project by logging on and adding more locations to the

>list.

Organizations spearheading this project are urging people to go online,  add locations, write and edit texts that describe what

happened at each location, and contribute their own pictures of these  locations.

Taiwan Church Press is listed within Tainan city on “Taiwan Human  Rights Map”. According to the description on the map, the

organization not only fulfilled its duty as a church newspaper, but also  fought for freedom of religion and freedom of speech. It was

forced to close and its newspaper, Taiwan Church News, was seized  several times by the Japanese government during the

country’s colonial era, and by the Nationalist (KMT) government  afterward. The newspaper itself also has an important place in the

history of Taiwan’s struggle for freedom of religion and freedom of  speech.

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