More than 50,000 supporters of the opposition coalition of the
Kuomintang and the People First Party held another large-scale
gathering on Saturday in Taipei, the provincial capital of Taiwan,
to protest against the unfair election.??
The protesters urged the authorities to make public the truth
about the shooting incident.
Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang, and James Soong, chairman
of the People First Party, addressed the gathering, blaming Chen
Shui-bian for his insistence on combining the referendum with the
election and questioning the mysterious election-eve shooting,
saying that these had produced an enormous impact on the election
and made it unfair and unjust.
They urged Chen Shui-bian to respond as early as possible to the
masses of people who demanded an independent committee to
investigate into the truth of the shooting.
(Xinhua News Agency April 4, 2004)
