Taiwan: A crowd gathered outside the Taipei Branch of the Bureau of Monopoly on 28th February, 1947, after a Taiwanese widow, suspected of selling contraband cigarettes, had been struck by an agent of the State Monopoly Bureau

Taiwan: A crowd gathered outside the Taipei Branch of the Bureau of Monopoly on 28th February, 1947, after a Taiwanese widow, suspected of selling contraband cigarettes, had been struck by an agent of the State Monopoly Bureau

Taiwan: A crowd gathered outside the Taipei Branch of the Bureau of Monopoly on 28th February, 1947, after a Taiwanese widow, suspected of selling contraband cigarettes, had been struck by an agent of the State Monopoly Bureau. The February 28 incident was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that was violently suppressed by Governor Chen Yi of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government, which killed thousands of civilians beginning on February 28, 1947. The number of Taiwanese deaths from the incident and massacre was estimated to be between 18,000 and 28,000.

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