Taipei - Thousands of Taiwanese streamed to the mausoleum of late Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek, reopened Saturday after being shut down by the former government.
A long line of visitors, young and old, were shown by Taiwanese television queuing in front of the shrine to pay respects to the late leader, who ruled Taiwan from 1949 to
1975.
"The DPP is dreadful, it is dreadful," a sobbing elderly visitor was quoted as saying by cable news network TVBS condemning the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government for shutting down the mausoleum in Taoyuan outside Taipei in late December.
He was among a number of emotional elderly visitors who had followed the Chiang Kai-shek troops to Taiwan in 1949.