A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan Story 1 ｜ Investigation Report on Lin Shui-chuan’s Case ｜ Unveiling the Murky History of “Political Hooliganism” During the Martial Law Period ▋ Archaeological site of the Third Corps. (Source: The NHRC) Complainant Lin Shui-chuan called on the NHRC Labor), had set up the Third Professional Discipline the media in 2021, Lin made his appeal for political where political and other dissidents were held. to “speak out” as its prime mission. Interviewed by rehabilitation. Corps (hereafter the Third Corps 職業訓導第三總隊 ) At the time of the White Terror, prisons and forced labor institutions were set up not only at the Plainly I was not a (hooligan)… (yet) can you just allow white to be painted black without rectifying it? 5 Detention Center of the Taiwan Garrison Command Mr. Lin was already 83-years-old when he came Correction Center and Green Island Lodge (綠島新 Xindian Military Prison (新店軍監 ), Jing-Mei Military ( 警備總部景美看守所 ), Green Island New Life exoneration from his official classification as a 生訓導處及綠洲山莊 ), and Taiyuan Prison ( 泰源監 and anxiety for the future had been with him for Third Corps on a remote offshore island. to the NHRC. Only after 20 years of longing for hooligan, did light begin to shine for him. Discredit much longer, ever since he was first vilified as a young man in his early twenties. To investigate Lin Shui-chuan’s complaint, in late autumn 2020, members of the newly-established NHRC, along with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), members of the Transitional Justice Commission (TJC), and officials of the Land Administration Division of Pingtung County Government gathered on Liuqiu Island, Pingtung, and conducted an on- site investigation of the site where, under martial law, the Taiwan Garrison Command ( 臺灣警備總司 令部 ) , in the name of Hooligan Reformation (Forced 5 獄) in Taitung, but the Taiwan Garrison Command ( 臺灣警備總司令部 ) also set up the little-known Given that nearly sixty years have passed and because the relevant material has been lost, Mr. Lin was unable to be rehabilitated or obtain compensation. Therefore members of the NHRC interviewed three victims of the White Terror and investigated surviving documents along with land administration and household administration archives, in the hope of clarifying political cases under martial law that were stigmatized as hooliganism whilst also exploring what remains on the site occupied by the Third Corps so as to determine the actual situation. The NHRC. From Black to Grey: Only for My Human Rights (Full Version). NHRC Official YouTube Account, September 6, 2022. National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 23