Relatively few sites touch on the subject as most detailed information remains paper-bound. Even fewer sites are available in English. Nevertheless, the following sites may be worth a look.

By Non-Governmental Organizations and Individuals

• Berkeley Students for a Sovereign Taiwan - commemoration by college students.
• 228 Massacre Against Humanity: Taiwan's Tragedy Remembered - by the University of Sasketchewan students.
• Taiwan Communiqué - news and commentary.
• Taiwanese Collegian - commemoration by graduate students.
• Professor Jeff Tsay - articles.

By State Organs

• The Official Memorial - the inscription in translation.
• The 228 Peace Memorial Day - now a national holiday.

228-Inspired Art and Literature

• A City of Sadness - critical analysis of the 1989 film.
• The March of Happiness - 1999 film review by Shelly Kraicer.
• Voices - the 1998 documentary by James Hsiao, then a student.
• Memorials - monuments throughout the island.

Taiwan-Related Documents of Relevance

• The San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951)
• The Cairo Declaration (1943)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Other Massacres and Genocides

• The Dili Massacre - in East Timor, 1991.
• The August 8, 1988 Massacre - in Burma.
• The 1959 Massacre of Tibetans
• The Tiananmen Square Massacre
• The Nanjing Massacre
• The Armenian Genocide
• The Holocaust
• ...among many, many others

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