White Terror (Taiwan)

 (Chinese: 白色恐怖; pinyin: Báisè Kǒngbù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pe̍h-sek Khióng-pò͘) was the political repression of Taiwanese civilians and political dissenters under the Kuomintang (KMT)-ruled government from the year 1947 to the year 1987.

Quotes

 * [Civil] rights researcher Wu Chih-Chung identified the root cause of unjust tax cases in the system of bonuses paid to tax bureaucrats who hastily impose ill-founded tax bills. Wu said that this is a legacy of the White Terror, where alleged Communists were arrested, tortured, and often killed after being reported to the authorities by whistleblowers who then received as bonuses a part of their victims’ confiscated assets. This system caused the death of many innocents and continues in the shape of bonuses that lead to the fabrication of false tax bills, Wu concluded.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "From the 228 Incident to the Tai Ji Men Case: A Conference in Taipei", Bitter Winter (March 22, 2024)