美麗島事件 Formosa Incident

On December 10th, 1979, the members of the pro-democratization magazine Formosa Magazine held a demonstration  commemmorating Human Rights Day in Kaohsiung, a city in the south of Taiwan. The KMT sent police and the military to contain the demonstration, causing direct conflicts between the two sides. Important leaders of the magazine were then arrested by the government using this incident as an excuse.