Mourning and Remembrance

To this day, there is no definitive figure on the number of deaths resulting from the 2-28 Incident.

On April 12, 1947, the Taiwan Liu-Hu No. 6 Group submitted a report on the deaths, reporting that between March 8 and March 16, a total of 10,000 Taiwanese were murdered and at least 20,000 injured.

In July 1947, officials Yang Lian-gong and He Han-wen announced the official government tally: 1,391 military personnel and civil service agents died, with 614 civilian deaths -- a total of 2012 people.

Another figure from Jiang Wei-chuan of the Bureau of Civil Affairs put the number of deaths at 18,000. In February 1992, a demographics report from the Executive Yuan's 2-28 Incident Research Committee estimated the number of deaths to be between 18,000 and 28,000.

Though we cannot be absolutely certain about the number of deaths, we do know that the victims – many talented and brilliant people, many of them innocent, many who left devastated families -- suffered an attack on their right to life and dignity. Regardless of a victim's social status, profession, or class, any wrongdoing should be investigated and condemned, and any sacrifices made should be remembered and contemplated.

The 2-28 Museum is limited to its own physical space in the sense that it can only convey the known facts about the deceased victims and display a few photographs of the people. The deceased victims in this exhibition are listed by their hometown and name, in mourning and remembrance.

Pictured here in this exhibition space are victims of the 2-28 Incident. The photographs were provided by the families of the victims.