Less than a few decades ago in taiwan, when the Sun Yat Sen and his KMT party arrived from China after being ousted by the communists, and decided to take over Taiwan, any native Taiwanese that opposed them were branded Chinese spies and were imprisoned or killed. My grandfather was imprisoned by the government for speaking against the slaughtering of the native Taiwanese.

Even today, the KMT runs almost all of the government in Taiwan. Other parties do exist and play a small role in the politics of Taiwan, but each party is worse than the other.

The politics and government of Taiwan is plagued with corruption. Every single “president” and the poltical parties in Taiwan has had has embezzled millions to billions of dollars, hoarded in offshore accounts. Many are not caught due to convenient policies passed by the corrupt government, such as where foreign money is not taken into account when calculating tax. This is not the case in most developed countries.

Even if some of the poltical figures are found embezzling funds, the evidence are ignored and belittled if they are in the KMT party, the party that governs almost all of Taiwan. Those that were caught, that are not in the KMT party, were jailed immediately and killed.

Former president Chen, from the DDP party, was linked to the embezzlement of funds, stored in Swiss and other offshore accounts. He was put under “detention” for a few months before officially arrested. Again, in many countries, this would display a lack of human rights. Apprehendhing a suspect for months without solid evidence.

The current president Ma, from the KMT party, turned a blind eye when warned about the recent hurricane in August. Even US naval forces near Taiwan offered assistance, but president Ma adamantly refused. The hurricane that hit Taiwan this summer, affected the most of the southern area, where the majority of Taiwanese natives live. During the first few days after the hurricane, no rescue teams were sent by the president. He was apparently busy attending weddings and enjoying himself. It was not until many complaints that he finally decided to act. When accused of imcompetence, he responded with a statement that we must wait until the water clears before we can start searching for survivors.

Many other members of the government made similar poor excuses, some even acted as if they were doing everyone a big favor by helping with the rescue stating “I skipped my breakfast for this” angrily.

The lack of care for the native Taiwanese is overwhelming, the KMT government is complacement to sit idly while many native Taiwanese die. Apparently the lives of native Taiwanese are worth nothing to the KMT.

It pains me to see so much corruption and lack of human rights in poltics of Taiwan. I hope one day someone will change the injust system. This is highly unlikely though, since the KMT as well as many other minor parties wish to continue with the money laundering, and will easily jail or pay gangs to assasinate any opposing figures.