Although unsuccessful, the Taiyuan Prison Incident on Feb. 8, 1970, was a rare armed uprising during the Martial Law era that actually got off the ground
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By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Feb. 6 to Feb. 12
The plan was to break out of jail, seize the facility’s ammunition, release the inmates and broadcast their “declaration of Taiwanese independence” to the world at the nearby Broadcasting Corporation of China station.
Chiang Ping-hsing (江炳興) and his fellow political prisoners at Taiyuan Prison (泰源監獄) hoped that this action would attract international attention and spark a nationwide rebellion that would overthrow Chiang Kai-shek’s…
