Reuters
Date: June

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hundreds packed into a park in central Taipei on Saturday for a Black Lives Matter protest, with a group of indigenous Taiwanese given prominent billing to draw attention to discrimination against the island’s original inhabitants.

A woman wipes her tears while attending a Black Live Matter rally in Taipei, Taiwan,June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

The rally, attended by more than 500 people, mostly foreigners, was peaceful with only a very light police presence.

While its main focus was to show solidarity with anti-racism protests triggered around the world by the death in police custody last month of African-American George Floyd, organisers also wanted to draw attention to some of Taiwan’s own problems.    [FULL  STORY]