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Description: "The Flash Point of the February 28 Incident" stele was dedicated on February 28, 1998 by Taipei City Archives. It marks the exact spot where the first shot was fired that triggered the 228 Incident in 1947.[1] It reads in English: The Flash Point of the February 28 Incident Following the end of the Second World War, the Taiwanese people suffered under the misrule of Chen Yi, the Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Province, and feelings of deep discontent developed. On the evening of February 27, 1947, six inspectors from the Provincial Monopoly Bureau attempted to confiscate smuggled cigarettes from an elderly female vendor. When she resisted, they struck her on the head with a pistol, and she began to bleed. In the ensuing chaos, a witness to these events was accidentally shot dead. Angry crowds marched to the local police station to demand that the killers be punished, and large-scale demonstrations for political reforms took place the very next day. The government responded by launching a bloody military suppression, a tragedy known as the February 28 Incident. Here is the spot where the first shot was fired.
Title: The-Flash-Point-of-the-February-28-Incident stele 20040402
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