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07/09/2007: ""

President Chen delivering his Taiwan to join UN speech in the Taiwanese Hoklo language.

During 38 years of earlier martial law, the original Taiwanese language was strictly forbidden. Chinese Mandarin could only be spoken and taught in schools.

The people were not happy but had to live with it. In those times anyone who complained would vanish never to be heard of again.