Chiang bears ultimate responsibility for 228 Incident: scholars

A document dated March 2, 1947, requesting the dispatch of at least a regiment of troops to put down the 228 Incident, which was read and approved by late president Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), is evidence that Chiang should be held personally responsible for the crackdown, a scholar said in Taipei on Thursday.

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