The China Post news staff
An old man and a student protested against the president, when he was about to speak at the new Taiwan Human Rights Park at Chingmei in the morning.
They were carried out of the park by security guards.
Chen opened the park. He was accompanied by Vice President Annette Lu and Premier Chang Chun-hsiung.
Two scores of supporters for Hansen's disease patients at the Losheng Leprosarium rallied in protest against the government for not making the premises a historical heritage site.
They were all removed before Chen arrived at the park.
But a volunteer worker at the park tried to call attention of Lu and Chang to the "disturbance" outside the park.
He was silenced and dragged away.
As the president began to speak, another old man shouted "Down with Ah-Bian." Ah-Bian is the president's preferred name.
As the old man was being removed, he shouted "Human Rights, Human Rights."
Two students protested as President Chen mentioned the renaming of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. They were immediately dragged out of the park.
In Hualien, Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou issued a Human Rights declaration to mark the occasion.
If he were elected, Ma said, he would have the Legislative Yuan ratify the U.N. Human Rights Declaration.
Ma also promised to forbid "political bugging" and "political auditing" if he won the presidential election.
"That is going to end the reign of green terror," Ma pointed out.
Police bug political leaders, opposition lawmakers in particular, with wiretaps. Those pro-unification business executives have to fear for strict auditing that may ruin their companies.
Thousands of people were arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison while Taiwan was under martial law. Many of them were executed. They are known as victims of the reign of white terror.
The Kuomintang candidate described what he believes is the political persecution as another reign of terror. He called it "green terror" because that color was the one for the flag of the Democratic Progressive Party.