Wild Strawberries Movement
The Wild Strawberries student movement (Chinese野 草莓 运动/野 草莓 运动, Pinyin Ye cǎoméi yundong, English Wild Strawberry Student Movement, in short:野 草莓, also Action1106 ) is supported by student protest movement in the Republic of China on Taiwan. It is directed against the policy of rapprochement of the new President Ma Ying- jeou to the People's Republic of China and the crackdown by the police against demonstrators.
The protests began on 6 November 2008 during a visit by Chen Yunlin, chairman of the People's Republic of China settled " Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits " ( ARATS ), in Taipei. Chen met with President Ma to negotiate the expansion of marine, aviation and postal routes between the two countries.
After a fierce engagement of the Taipei police against a group of initially 400 students who formed a human chain in protest against the visit of Chen, a sit-in at the Executive Yuan began as a protest against the strict right of assembly, which does not allow demonstrations at government buildings. Not only the use of the flag of the opposition Pan -Green Democratic Progressive Party was banned, but also the pivoting of the official flag of the Republic of China. This was forcibly removed by the police and led to a pan- green and pan-blue camp -wide demonstration. It was stressed by the students time and again that these do not belong to existing political camp. As an official blog of a women's association.
The strong police intervention frightened the people of Taiwan, comparisons with the White terror 20 years ago by the current ruling party Kuomintang came on and calls for human rights were raised.
Name
The name " Wild Strawberries" inspired by the Wild - Lillien student movement in 1990 and the name " strawberry generation" born in the years 1981-1991, the protected as well, spoiled, are called weak and uninterested to. Here is the "wild" mean demarcation to the original meaning of the strawberries and show that the strawberries stand up for their ideals.
Demonstrations
The demonstration began chain outside the main building of the Executive Yuan. After 24 hours, the police tried to disperse the protesters by temporary arrests. According to a prepared Regruppierungsplan the students met again in front of the National Chiang Kai- shek Memorial Hall.
In addition, the Wild Strawberries student movement organized a slight time offset demonstrations in other cities throughout Taiwan:
- Kaohsiung, November 7
- Tainan, November 8
- Taichung, November 9
- Changhua, November 9
- Hsinchu, November 10
- Chiayi, November 12
Objectives
Due to the circumstances and events surrounding the visit of Chen's students presented the following demands to the government:
Responses of the Government
- On 11 November 2008 Premier Liu said the Liberty Times "I will not apologize. In such a case you have to wait only two days before it 's over. "
- On 13 November 2008 President Ma Ying- jeou held a radio address to the students and said that police chief Wang could Cho - chiun (王卓钧) and the chairman of the National Security Service Tsai Chao- ming (蔡朝明) to improve, but he does not reason for resignation see.
- December 11, 2008 Students of Wild Strawberries student movement and protesters were removed for a Free Tibet by the police force from Liberty Square in front of the Chiang Kai- shek Memorial Hall, as these peaceful demonstration would be incompatible with the right of assembly.
Wild berries - house
Since the end of the sit-in on January 4, 2009, a new building was inaugurated on January 11, in which the student movement has set up a separate organization headquarters. The house was野 莓 之 家, ( Yěméizhījiā, English Wild Berry House) baptized and is located in Taipei. The address is: No.9, Alley 7, Lane28, Tung- An St. Zhung - Zheng District, Taipei City