Press Release of Feb. 2, 2008

After the completion of the Press Conference on Feb. 2nd, all 48 signature nations of the San Francisco Peace Treaty (SFPT) of 1952 will be formally notified of the actions of the Committee in preparing for the establishment of Taiwan's Civil Government.

In the SFPT, Japan renounced all right, title, and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores, but no receiving country was specified. The Republic of China (ROC) has served as a subordinate occupying power in conducting the military occupation of Taiwan since Oct. 25, 1945, and then after moving its central government to occupied Taiwan in mid-December 1949 it became a government in exile. As of Jan. 1, 1979, the US government no longer diplomatically recognized the ROC as a legal government, and in the Taiwan Relations Act the nomenclature of "Taiwan governing authorities" is used. Under the SFPT of 1952, the United States remains as the principal occupying power of Taiwan, and United States Military Government jurisdiction over Taiwan is active.

As principal organizers of the Preparatory Committee, Roger C. S. Lin and two hundred of his supporters already filed suit in the United States District Court, Washington D.C. on Oct. 24, 2006, charging that the United States government has seriously violated the civil rights of the native Taiwanese people in occupied Taiwan. This case is proceeding at the present time. Additional FOIA Requests have been filed with US government agencies, and numerous previously classified documents on the Taiwan status issue have come to light over the past several months. Additional pressure is being placed on the Dept. of State to recognize native Taiwanese people as "Domestic Aliens" within the framework of the Taiwan Relations Act, and to authorize the issuance of some form of US passports to native Taiwanese persons.

Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire up to April 28, 1952. When Japan surrendered, Taiwan surrendered as well. According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross commentaries on international humanitarian law, the Insular Cases of the US Supreme Court, etc. the principal occupying power of Taiwan (i.e. the USA) has the obligation to help the Taiwanese people to form their own civil government.

The USMG and the "government in exile ROC" have proceeded with all levels of Taiwanese elections over the past fifty years, which have resulted in the denial of civil rights to native Taiwanese people, and given the false impression that Taiwan is a democratic society, when in fact the Taiwanese people are suffering under the ROC exiled regime. After the massacres of February and March 1947, the ROC government instituted currency manipulation measures which further resulted in huge financial losses by native Taiwanese people, and such unfair policies continued over the following decades as well.

The current huge financial resources of the Chinese Nationalists are well known, and combined with their near-monopolies in the political, governmental, educational, economic, and media spheres, enable them to brain-wash the local Taiwanese populace into accepting their goals for national development. As a result, most native Taiwanese are seriously confused about their own national identity and the proper direction for educational, judicial, or government reform. Numerous publications of the Preparatory Committee in 2007 and 2008 are serving to reveal the truth of Taiwan's international legal status, so that all local residents can be fully informed.

The international community has already announced many times that "The ROC is not a country", "Taiwan is not a country", "Taiwan is not part of the PRC," "Taiwan does not face an issue of independence", "Entrance to the United Nations is an issue for the future," etc. etc. Our Preparatory Committee also wants to announce that "Taiwan does not equal the ROC, and the ROC does not equal Taiwan." We also pray that God will bless Taiwan!!!

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The Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of Taiwan's Civil Government

released: Feb. 2, 2008 by the Secretariat