The World - News from May 20, 1986

Opposition supporters protesting 38 years of martial law staged the first organized anti-government demonstration in Taiwan since 1979. Police cordoned off a temple in Taipei, where about 200 members of an opposition movement known as tangwai (outside the party) had gathered, but no arrests or violence were reported. The protesters sang songs and chanted such slogans as “Freedom and democracy,” dispersing after police thwarted their efforts to march on government buildings.