Jottings of a longtime resident of Taiwan, but with headings in Estonian. Problem with that? Two years ago this blog was a deeply earnest project in sober grey and white. Now we have learned to post pictures and Utubes, so let's start partying!
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Correction
The sixty year old man I referred to being shown on the news being beaten was this man, who turns out to have been a TSU supporter. I feel a lot less conflicted now. The Taiwan News' top article states that the pan-Greens did initiate things by throwing eggs, but the Blues appeared to have an organized phalanx of gangsters who marauded at will, while the police watched: "At around 10:42 a.m., a few hooligans attacked an old pan-Green supporter in his sixties with a Nunchaku, the martial arts weapon.....others were also attacked by the group of thugs, and in all, nine people were hospitalized after the demonstration ended." Much less conflicted.