Part Two 1975-1980

Photograph courtesy of Ken Kilimnik

• Miyake Kiyoko’s role in collecting information from the families of political prisoners was discovered by the security agencies, and after 1975 she could no longer go to Taiwan.

• But by 1977, Lynn and Miyake had developed a network of English- and Japanese-speaking contacts within Taiwan who would guide visitors and make regular reports.

• There were also young journalists such as William Armbruster and Melinda Liu who aspired to write the truth about Chiang’s martial law regime. Here in 2003, with Jack Hasegawa who was sent by Amnesty International in 1973 to investigate Hsieh Tsung-min’s health after torture at the Chingmei Prison.

Professor Chen Ku-ying 陳鼓應 , a mainlander intellectual purged from the National Taiwan University Philosophy Dept in 1971, taught foreign students about Taiwan repression while tutoring them in the classics of Chinese philosophy, and recruited them for human rights reporting. He

influenced Helen Chauncey, Rosemary Haddon, Kathy Kearny, and Linda Gail Arrigo. In December 1978 he ran for election with the

opposition coalition, and condemned the KMT in classical Chinese.

Rosemary Haddon, Linda Arrigo, Chang Mei-Chen, Chen Chu in 1978

Dennis Engbarth 安德毅 , reclusive correspondent for ICDHRT in the late 70s, in July 1978 and in Dec 2007.

Rosemary Haddon and Kathy Kearny, left above. Rosemary, living in Taiwan 1974-81, married Lin Hua-chou 林華洲 , imprisoned for six years in the

Chen Ying-chen 陳映真 case, 1968.

Photos by Rosemary Haddon, 1978: right, with Dirk Bennett at opposition dinner. Below, Chen Ying-chen 陳映真 and wife; Li

Ching-tung, Chen Ku-ying 陳鼓應 , and Dirk out hiking near Hsintien.

Dirk Bennett and Ken Kilimnik at their Taipei house, 1978. Ken was

interested in industrial development and social justice issues, as common

among 1970s Western youth. Dirk remained in Taiwan as a

reporter and financial consultant.

Photos courtesy of Ken Kilimnik

Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 also came back to Taiwan in summer 1975 and May 1977 for a research project on Taiwan labor. Center, Theresa

Yuan 袁嬿嬿 , girl worker dorm mother at Catholic-run dormitory in Hsintien, joined human rights work in 1978.

Knowing the challenge to KMT control in the Nov 1977 election for

county executive in Taoyuan, Linda

traveled to Tahsi 大溪 , witnessed the burning of the police station in Chungli 中壢 at

night, and returned to take pictures the next day, as shown

in the following slides.

The day after the Chungli Incident of Nov 19, 1977

The day after the Chungli Incident of Nov 19, 1977

This package, mailed by Linda to Lynn under false name Quincey O’Toole, is held at the Wu Shan-lien Foundation archives.

1978 photo taken secretly by Chen Po-wen 陳博文 :

Memories through Rose-Tinted Fog

• Linda and Nori married first by notary on June 15, 1978, when Nori was in danger of arrest. Chen Chu, arrested June 23 at the mission of Ron Boccieri, was released under US pressure in late July, and soon instigated a public wedding for Oct 15 to kick off the year-end national-level elections.

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Ron Boccieri’s mission in Lotsu,Changhua, 1978, where Chen Chuwas arrested June 23. Picture by Ken Kilimnik

Kevin Burnor, in 1978 working in the US military post office in

Taiwan, helped Linda mail packages to Kuo Yu-hsin in

Washington D.C. on behalf of Chen Chu.

He says he was glad to try to make a difference for the rights

of the Taiwanese people, whatever the risk to his job.

Professor James Seymour first went to Taiwan in 1960. In 1975 Amnesty International sent him to observe the retrial of Hsieh, Wei, and Lee Ao. He founded SPEAHR in March 1977, and its publication SPEAHRhead was

important to airing Taiwan issues in English, especially for the 1980 trials.

In 1977-79, Klaus Walter ran the Taiwan coordination group

for Amnesty International in Germany, handling 30 cases in that time. Below, Walter with

Huang Hua 黃華 , 2007.

Laurie Wiseberg of HRI visited Taiwan

fatefully in November 1979, and got a set of pictures of Green

Island from Linda and Nori’s recent trip – later the only set left. In 1980 she wrote an incisive report on human rights in Taiwan, including govern-

ment harrasment of the Presbyterian

Church of Taiwan.

The organization of Lin Hsiao-hsin 林孝信 in Chicago, OSDMT

台灣民主運動支援會 , 1978-80, put together an excellent booklet reproducing documents on KMT

spies on US campuses.

Reverend Roger Chao 超有源 , Germany, Taiwanese Christian Self-Determination Movement

Kaohsiung Incident,December 10, 1979

Nicki Croghan helped the wives of those arrested keep contact with human

organizations after the Dec 13-15 arrests and Linda’s deportation, but was herself

deported the following month.

During the March 1980 trial, Linda and her mother

Nellie G. Amondson in Hong Kong prepped foreign reporters and

helped the wives issue appeals. Gerrit van der Wees continued Taiwan Communiqué for English

information dissemination.

President Chen Shui-bian at the dedication of the Green Island prison as a memorial, Dec 2002.

Linda, Miyake, Chen Chu, Lynn in Taipei 1995

Lynn Miles and foreign human rights activists, Dec 2003

Lynn Miles burns his U.S. passport at American Institute on Taiwan in May 2003 to protest U.S. invasion of Iraq.