Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947.
Proposals to establish Peace Memorial Day as a holiday began in the early 1990s.
The February 28 incident in 1947 began the Chiang Kai-shek-led government's mass killing of civilians, which continued into a period of political persecution known as White Terror.
[1][2] On 28 February 1995, 48 years after the 1947 incident, President Lee Teng-hui made a public apology to families of victims and the whole country on behalf of the government.
[1] In 1997, an amendment to the act, proposed by legislator Lin Kuang-hua, to elevate Peace Memorial Day to an official holiday was passed.