Taiwan’s KMT rubs up its image – Kathrin Hille

From The Financial Times:

Ma Ying-jeou, new leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, has started a campaign to highlight the party’s historic links with the island and reconcile it with those who suffered under decades of repressive KMT rule.

The KMT party headquarters, widely seen as a symbol of its authoritarian past, yesterday became the scene of an unlikely memorial to two heroes of a local Taiwanese nationalist and democracy movement.