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Date 1949 - 1992
Location Taiwan

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Freedom Era Weekly magazine covers
228 Incident: A crowd gathers in Taipei
Remembering a lost father
Laundry room at Jing-Mei Military Detention Center
White Terror pardons in Taiwan
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