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Student activist Dai Lin to receive posthumous honor
By Chen Feng-li and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 - Page 3
Student activist Dai Lin (林冠華) is to be posthumously commemorated in the “Taiwanese Pantheon (台灣神)” in a park owned by the Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation, foundation spokesperson Liau Kian-tshiau (廖建超) said yesterday.
Lin, who was a second-year student at the continuing studies division of the New Taipei Municipal Juang Jing Vocational High School, was found dead on July 30 in an apparent suicide at his family’s residence in New Taipei City. As a former member of the Northern Taiwan Anti-Curriculum Changes Alliance, Lin’s suicide is believed to be a protest against the Ministry of Education’s controversial adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines.
Lin will be honored by a monument in the Tati Foundation’s Taiwan Holy Mountain Ecological Educational Park in Caotun Township (草屯), Nantou County, which is to be unveiled on Sept. 26, Liau said.
Lin is the eighth activist to have a monument erected in his honor in the park, Liau said.
The foundation has invited pro-democracy and pro-independence luminaries such as historian and martial-rule era revolutionary Su Beng (史明) and historian and former minister of education Tu Cheng-shen (杜正勝) to the unveiling ceremony, Liau said.
Lin’s name will be inscribed on the park’s wall of memorial, which bears the names of others such as Lin Mao-seng (林茂生), Cheng Cheng-po (陳澄波) and Lei Chen (雷震), intellectuals who were executed, imprisoned or otherwise persecuted in the past.
Liau said that the young activist had “sacrificed his life for a righteous cause,” and was “a pioneer” in the movement against the “Chinese colonialist textbook guidelines,” making him an “exemplary figure” the Taiwanese Pantheon was established to celebrate.
“Dai Lin had inspired many more young students to learn authentic Taiwanese history, geography and its pluralistic culture,” Liau said.
The monument will be erected on Democracy Square in the center of Taiwan Holy Mountain park, and is to incorporate a sand-blasted photographic portrait of Lin, Liau said.
Other people of note who are to attend the ceremony include former Democratic Progressive Party legislator Tien Tsai-ting (田再庭) and former representative to Japan Koh Se-kai (許世楷).
Liau said the Formosa Song (福爾摩沙頌) and Island’s Sunrise (島嶼天光), songs that have seemingly become anthems of Taiwan’s protest movements, will be sung at the ceremony.
翻譯：
學生運動者林冠華獲得死後追贈的榮耀
學生運動者林冠華將被追贈紀念為「台灣神」於台灣大地文教基金會所擁有的園區裡，基金會發言人廖建超昨日表示。
林冠華原是新北市莊敬高職進修部二年級學生，7月30日被發現在他新北市的家中自殺。身為北區反課綱高校聯盟的前成員，林冠華的自殺被認定是為了抗議教育部爭議性的高中課綱修改。
林冠華的紀念碑座落於南投縣草屯鎮大地基金會的台灣聖山生態教育園區，將於9月26日揭碑，廖建超說。
林冠華是園區內第八位被豎立紀念碑的榮耀運動者，廖建超說。
基金會已邀請民主派與獨派名人如歷史學家、戒嚴時期的革命家史明與歷史學者、前教育部長杜正勝參與揭碑儀式，廖建超表示。
林冠華的名字將被刻在園區內的追思牆上，與過去像是林茂生、陳澄波、雷震等當初被處決、監禁與迫害的知識分子齊名。
廖建超指出這位年輕的運動者捨身取義，也是反中國殖民課綱運動的先行者，使他成為讓人紀念的台灣神典範。
林冠華啟蒙了更多年輕學子要去學習真正的台灣歷史、地理與多元文化，廖建超說。
紀念碑將豎立於台灣聖山裡的民主廣場，並會有林冠華的噴砂照片，廖建超說。
其他也會到場參與的知名人士還包括前民進黨立委田再庭與前駐日代表許世楷。
廖建超說，歌曲「福爾摩沙頌」與「島嶼天光」，似乎已成為台灣抗爭運動的國歌，也將在紀念會上唱頌。
出處: 台灣大地文教基金會
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