Taiwan Veterans Clash With Police In Pension Protest
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published April 25, 2018 | 06:41 PM
Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police as they tried to storm parliament in the latest of a series of protests against planned pension cuts.
Taipei, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Apr, 2018 ) :Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police as they tried to storm parliament in the latest of a series of protests against planned pension cuts.
Hundreds gathered outside the legislature's main entrance and some threw smoke bombs and water bottles at police guarding the building in central Taipei. They also tried in vain to hurl an empty wooden coffin into the parliament compound's courtyard, television footage showed.
"How can the government unilaterally cut (our pensions) without our consent? The government is lousy, unfair and unjust!" said Wu Chih-chang, chairman of the Blue Sky Action Alliance which organised the protest.
Around 63 protesters were taken away after they climbed parliament's gate according to police. Others tried to pull down the gate using ropes and chains. Some barricades outside the compound were torn down by protesters, while at least 30 officers and nine reporters were injured, police said.
"We strongly condemn the serious violent actions by anti-pension groups and reiterate our determination to investigate (the violence)... we urge the public to use peaceful and rational means to express their opinions and refrain from breaking the law," Taipei police said in a statement.
The Taiwan Media Workers Union also condemned the violence. "Many journalists were injured and their equipment was damaged ... protesters intentionally used violence and inflicted injuries," it said in a statement.
Some protesters vowed to stay overnight as parliament was scheduled to review a pension reform bill for military veterans on Thursday. Proposed pension cuts for the veterans are part of wider cutbacks in Taiwan that have triggered mass street protests as well as clashes inside parliament among lawmakers.
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