CNA
Wang Sing-nan and Kao Chien-chih, among others, submitted the charge to the Taipei Prosecutors Office accusing Ma of "malicious defamation" over the bill, which is aimed at bringing to justice those responsible for the Feb. 28 Incident of 1947 and for government crimes during the martial rule imposed by the KMT from 1949-1987.
Wang, who proposed the draft law endorsed by 34 DPP lawmakers, blasted what he described as Ma's "twisted rhetoric" that the bill will involve innocent people because its fourth article stipulates that even if the perpetrators have died, their spouses, sons and even third cousins will also have to stand trial in their places.
Wang accused Ma of seriously distorting the article's "good faith," which he claimed would offer the criminals' offspring "the chance to defend their fathers, grandfathers or relatives."
Ma's claims that the bill is full of hatred and would implicate innocent persons entirely deviates from the facts, according to Wang.
Ma said a day earlier that the DPP has stepped over the "red line" for rehashing the Feb. 28 Incident because the bill has also hurt the victims' families by failing to take their feelings into account.
Such a draft law is merely a scheme designed by the DPP to cement the "pan-green camp" voter base in the coming legislative and presidential polls, Ma claimed.
Tseng Yung-chuan, a KMT lawmaker and director of the party's Policy Coordination Committee, turned down an invitation by Wang Tuesday to debate the Feb. 28 Incident. "There is no need to respond to Wang as it would only fuel social confrontation between the two camps," Tseng pointed out.
Thousands of Taiwanese people were massacred by KMT troops in the Feb. 28 Incident of 1947 during the party's initial rule of Taiwan, shortly after the regime led by late President Chiang Kai-shek relocated from China to Taiwan.