Several civil society groups in Taiwan protest the authorities' proposed amendment to the "National Defense Mobilization Preparation Law"

Taipei, 3 Mar (Zhongxin Net) -- On 16 March, a number of nongovernmental organizations in Taiwan took to the streets to protest the revision of the so-called "National Defense Mobilization Preparation Law" planned by the DPP authorities.

A few days ago, the defense department of the Taiwan authorities proposed to amend the "Law on Preparations for All-People Defense Mobilization," and planned to rename it as the "All-People Defense Mobilization Law." Its additions and amendments have aroused widespread skepticism on the island.

The protest held in front of the administrative organ of the Taiwan authorities on the 16th was called "Anti-'Taiwan Independence' Anti-Interference Joint Action", initiated by the Cross-Strait Forum for Peaceful Development, and joined by many non-governmental organizations such as the Taiwan Workers' Party, the Blue Sky Action Alliance, and the Taiwan Reunification Alliance Party.

Protest groups say the DPP's amendments to the law are intended to cooperate with the United States and "turn Taiwan into a battlefield"; The provisions that include students over the age of 16 in the scope of mobilization are sending young people to war as cannon fodder.

Wu Rongyuan, convener of the Cross-Strait Forum for Peace and Development and chairman of Taiwan's Workers' Party, said in a speech at the scene that war is terrible, and those who create it are even more abominable. He criticized that the DPP authorities cooperated with the United States to "fight a cross-strait civil war," and the Taiwan people would never agree.

On March 3, a number of civil society groups in Taiwan protested the amendments to the DPP authorities' National Defense Mobilization Preparation Law. The picture shows Qi Jialin, chairman of the Taiwan Unification Alliance Party. Photo courtesy of the Cross-Strait Forum for Peace and Development

Qi Jialin, chairman of the Taiwan Unification Alliance Party, pointed out that the "All-People Defense Mobilization Act" is part of the so-called "Taiwan destruction plan" of the United States. Ji Xin, publisher of the magazine "Observation," said: "We hereby declare that the people of Taiwan refuse to use US weapons against their compatriots, and we advise Western powers not to create a 'proxy war' in the Taiwan Strait." Luo Guoyong, a representative of Hukou Township in Hsinchu County, said that his two children, aged 16 and 12, would probably be sent to war if the amendments were passed.

At the end of the protest, Wu Rongyuan and the leaders of various groups handed over the letter of protest to the representatives sent by the administrative organs of the Taiwan authorities. Wang Juanping, executive director of the Taiwan Labor and Human Rights Association, and Wang Zheng, chairman of the China Youth Development Federation, presided over the on-site activities and led the protesters to shout slogans such as "oppose US hegemony, oppose the return to martial law", "Taiwan do not change the battlefield, young people do not go to the battlefield", "oppose 'Taiwan independence', save Taiwan" and other slogans. (End)