DPP can't endorse separatist campaign with falsity

With the 70th anniversary of the "Feb 28 Incident" in Taiwan around the corner, the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, one of the eight non-communist parties on the Chinese mainland, held a seminar in Beijing on Thursday where participants emphasized the need to clarify and commemorate what happened on that day seven decades ago.

The incident refers to an uprising that began on Feb 28, 1947, and resulted in a brutal crackdown on protesters by the then ruling Kuomintang troops in the following two months. An estimated thousands of people, locals as well as those from other provinces, were killed and many had to suffer the consequences of being blacklisted.

The Democratic Progressive Party, which is now in office in Taiwan, has more than once attempted to fan anti-mainland sentiments on the island by smearing the incident as a clash between "locals" and "non-locals".