Pro-independence activist Ng Chiau-tong, who served as the Chairman of the WUFI from 1995 until 2011, died in office from complications of surgery on 17 November 2011.

In 1954, Taiwanese American students (Jay Loo, John Lin, Edward Chen, Ton-ket Young) organized 3F (Free Formosa for Formosans) in Philadelphia.

The KMT efforts to force Thomas Liao to give in caused resentments to strive harder for their goal.

UFAI members kept up the struggle for Taiwan independence and were encouraged by George H. Kerr's book Formosa Betrayed, also published in 1965.

The Cuban revolution was sparked by 80 idealists who trained to be military guerillas to free Cuba after landing on the Sierra Madre Mountains.

UFAI members seek to follow the same model and trained to be revolutionary guerrillas to free Taiwan from the Chiang Kai-shek government with similar tactics.

In April, 1970, UFAI member Peter Huang from Cornell University made an assassination attempt on Chiang Ching Kuo who had been invited to a luncheon in New York City.

Huang was arrested and pled guilty; his accompliice Cheng Tsu-Tsai fled to Sweden where he was extradited back to the U.S.[3]

Among attendees were George Chang, Trong Chai, Lo hok-tsuan, Kyu Bun-ki, Strong Chuang [zh], Wang Po-wen.

In NYC several WUFI members chained themselves at the United Nations headquarter demanding human rights in Taiwan.

At Little League World series held in Williamsport, the activists group hired an air plane to fly a banner.

Regional Taiwanese conferences that were organized all across North America would invite speakers and fundraise to support the movement in Taiwan.

A series of bombings of KMT offices and officials in the United States from 1979 to 1980 resulted in the Department of Justice adding WUFI to its list of terrorist organizations in May 1980.

In 1990, the overseas Taiwanese independence movement decided to make a concerted effort to challenge the blacklist and move their leadership back to Taiwan.

Overseas Taiwanese human rights and independence activists faced retribution from the KMT government in Taiwan.