"Chiang Kai-shek would definitely have these people executed if he were alive."
-DPP legislator
From Friday’s Taipei Times:
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday accused a number of
retired generals of having relocated to China or purchased real estate there
while accepting life-time monthly paychecks from the Ministry of National
Defense (MND).
The legislators named names – names of citizens who’ve presumably retired from public life – so they’d better have the goods, or there’s going to be a set of monster libel suits. As well there should be. A lot of irresponsible accusations get made here, and they’re not always confined to one side of the aisle.
That said though, the charges do have a ring of truth about them. I’ve no doubt that some former Taiwanese officers (not necessarily the ones in question) WOULD voluntarily move to the glorious Fatherland they’d always dreamt of retaking.