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The 228 Incident: Lin
I-hsiung’s family tragedy commemorated
LOVING MEMORY: About 100 people attended the
memorial service held to commemorate Lin’s mother and daughters stabbed to death
in 1980
By Loa Iok-sin / Staff reporter
Former Democratic Progressive
Party chairman Lin I-hsiung, left, and his wife, Fang Su-min, second left,
attend a memorial service for Lin’s murdered mother and the couple’s murdered
twin daughters at the Lin Family Cemetery in Yilan County yesterday.
Photo: Hu Chien-sen, Taipei Times
Former Democratic Progressive Party
chairman Lin I-hsiung (林義雄) and his wife, Fang Su-min (方素敏), yesterday attended
a service to commemorate their twin daughters and Lin’s mother, who were
murdered during the White Terror era.
Around noon on Feb. 28, 1980, a person whose identity remains unknown broke into
Lin’s house in Taipei and attacked Lin’s 60-year-old mother, Lin Yu A-mei
(林游阿妹), his seven-year-old twin daughters, Lin Huan-chun (林奐均) and Lin
Liang-chun (林亮均), and eldest daughter, Lin Ting-chun (林亭均), who was nine-years
old at the time.
At the time of the incident, Lin I-hsiung was in jail awaiting trial for his
participation in the Kao-hsiung Incident the previous year, and his wife was
visiting him.
Lin I-hsiung’s mother, Lin Liang-chun and Lin Ting-chun died after being
stabbed.
His eldest daughter Lin Huan-chun survived after being stabbed six times.
As the Lins’ house at the time was under close surveillance by the police and
secret service agents, some believe that the murder was arranged by the
government as a warning to those involved in the pro-democracy movement.
However, the actual course of events remains unknown.
The Lins’ residence on Xinyi Road in Taipei later became the Gikong Presbyterian
Church, which holds a memorial service each year for the family.
About 100 people attended yesterday’s memorial service.
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