Around a dozen demonstrators stormed a stage where Taipei’s new mayor was speaking on Wednesday, calling him a murderer and demanding he apologises for the bloodshed during a 1947 massacre in Taiwan. Protesters were furious that Mayor Chiang Wan-an was hosting the memorial service because his purported great-grandfather, president Chiang Kai-shek, oversaw the violent suppression nearly eight decades ago.

Carrying a white banner with the words, “kneel and apologise”, the protesters rushed towards Chiang, who turned his back on them while security guards swooped in and ushered the crowd away from the stage. Known as the “228 Inci­dent”, the crackdown eventually killed up to an estimated 28,000 people. It started after an inspector beat a woman selling untaxed cigarettes in Taipei, prompting an island-wide uprising on Feb 28.

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