TAIPEI: More than 100,000 Taiwan opposition supporters protested yesterday, demanding an independent inquiry into an election-eve assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian that they suspect may have been staged.
Waving flags, tooting horns and chanting “We want the truth,” they filled the square outside the presidential office here, in the third major protest since Chen defeated Nationalist leader Lien Chan in the hotly disputed presidential poll on March 20.
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