| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 102 === State terrorism means that the state is the main actor who implements terrorism to its civilians by using violence as a tool. Its civilians become the victims of state violence and intimidation. The combination of intelligence apparatuses and White Terror Era laws is a violence tool using by KMT against its civilians, which establishes a link between state terrorism and Taiwan White Terror. KMT’s main targets of persecution are the Communists in Taiwan in the 1950s and the Taiwanese independence activists after the 1960s. KMT’s main purpose is to maintain the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek regime in Taiwan.
Differing from the concept of case study, state-building and authoritarian, this dissertation will use the approach of state terror to study Taiwan White Terror. The five elements in the approach of state terror, organization and resources, institutional culture, international influence, domestic social forces and construction of external reality, implies that the formation of state terror is a dynamic process, which also explains the formation of Taiwan White Terror.
In order to consolidate the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek regime in Taiwan and to eliminate the dissidents, the KMT government adopts the tactics of state terror, such as repression, torture and persecution against the civilians. Thus, White Terror in Taiwan shall be regarded as the case of state terrorism. Through the approach of state terror, this dissertation aims at providing a new perspective in the study of Taiwan White Terror.
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