4-02-07, 8:28 am

Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party staged a rally in Taipei on Saturday to protest the authorities' recent 'de-sinicizing' moves.

Local media said about 20,000 people attended the rally, including Ma Ying-jeou, former chairman of KMT, Wang Jin-pyng, leader of Taiwan's legislative body, and other senior party officials.

The Taiwan authorities, headed by Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), have taken a number of 'de-sinicizing' separatist measures.

Chen announced on Feb. 8 that the authorities will remove the words 'China' or 'Chinese' from the island's 'government-run' organizations, enterprises and from certain laws and regulations.

The move, a denial of history, would cause conflict on the island, said KMT acting chairman Chiang Pin-kung at a press conference on Friday.

The DPP had contributed almost nothing in the past seven years, but threatened Taiwan's economic sustainability, cross-Strait peace as well as ethnic harmony for its own political gain, Chiang said.

Source: Xinhua

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