Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park

The Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park (traditional Chinese: 白色恐怖景美紀念園區; simplified Chinese: 白色恐怖景美纪念园区; pinyin: Báisè Kǒngbù Jǐngměi Jìniàn Yuánqū) is a museum in Xindian District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park
白色恐怖景美紀念園區
Former namesJingmei Military Detention Center
Jing-Mei Human Rights Memorial and Cultural Park
General information
TypeMuseum
LocationXindian, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Coordinates24°59′17.9″N 121°31′55.8″E
Opened2007
The museum interior

History

The building used to serve as a military school from 1957 to 1967. It later housed military courts and a detention center called the Jingmei Military Detention Center (Chinese: 景美軍事看守所) for political dissidents during the White Terror period. Former prisoners in the detention center include Annette Lu, Chen Chu and Shih Ming-teh. In 1991, the center was closed.[1]

In 2007, the center was turned into a human rights memorial and museum featuring Taiwan's democracy movement at the suggestion of Vice President Annette Lu. In early April 2009, the Council for Cultural Affairs changed the name of the site to Jing-Mei Human Rights Memorial and Cultural Park.[2]

In 2018, the ownership has moved to the National Human Rights Museum established in the same year, who changed the name of the site to its current name Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park.[3]

Transportation

The museum is accessible within walking distance north west from Dapinglin Station of Taipei Metro.

See also

References
  1. "Taiwanease • National Human Rights Museum (Preparatory Office) • Jingmei Human Rights Memorial Park 景美人權文化園區". Taiwanease.
  2. Loa, Iok-sin (24 April 2009). "Activists mobilize to stop changes to Jingmei park". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  3. "National Human Rights Museum inaugurated in New Taipei City, Green Island". Taiwan Today. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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