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The Kaohsiung Incident.

Only 10 years before the Tian'anmen Square Incident in Mainland China, Taiwan had finally allowed the people the some ability to express discontent publicly. A riot occurred, and the Kuomintang govt (exiled from the mainland) arrested several leaders and tortured them for several months.

Keep in mind, these were people denied any place in the political process until 1996, and under martial law until 1987. And let us not forget that thousands ("10s of thousands" is probably an exaggeration...) who were killed by Kuomintang troops on 28 February 1947.

Oh, yeah: you probably can't 'not forget' was was never told to you, never really discussed in the US. But we hear about the Tian'anmen Square incident, don't we? That's because Realpolitic dictates that we support evil, despotic regimes when they oppose evil, despotic Communist regimes.