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| Subject: Hundreds protest in Taipei after student suicide over the island's "China-centric" school curriculum Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:28 pm | |
| Hundreds of protesters gathered in Taipei early on Friday calling for the education minister to resign after a student committed suicide, amid a deepening row over the island's "China-centric" school curriculum.
Several hundred people, some holding white roses and candles, congregated outside the education ministry at midnight to bid farewell to 20-year-old Lin Kuan-hua, who police said killed himself in his New Taipei City home Thursday morning.
Lin was reportedly one of 30 students, along with three journalists, who were arrested last week for breaking into the ministry in anger at controversial changes to the high school curriculum, which students say favour China's view of the island's history.
"We will not let Lin Kuan-hua die in vain!" Chu Chen, a spokesman for the student protest group, told the growing crowd, as chants calling for Education Minister Wu Se-hwa to step down rang out.
As the hours passed with no response from Wu, a group of angry students broke down part of a fence around the ministry and took over a square in front of the building.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/29136981/hundreds-protest-in-taipei-after-student-suicide/ |
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