Taiwan's government scraped the name of late president Chiang Kai-shek from a memorial hall Sunday in the latest move to downplay the legacy of the leader whom the ruling party calls a "dictator".
Workers changed the inscription on the Taiwan Memorial Democracy Hall in the capital after the government earlier announced it was renaming the building known as the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
"We did this because we have a vision ... for those of you being haunted by any terror of martial law, this move tells you that from now on, you're totally liberated," education minister Tu Cheng-sheng said at the hall.
"Our dream is to turn Taiwan into a real free and democratic country," he told reporters after labourers had finished the inscription on the building.
The 70-metre (231-feet) high hall is part of a memorial park where scuffles erupted last week between supporters of Chiang and opponents after the leader's named was chiselled off the inscription eulogising him on the main gate.
The inscription was replaced with the words "Liberty Square".
The park, which also contains a public square, concert hall and theatre, was built in 1980 in memory of Chiang who died in 1975.
Chiang is remembered by many as the leader who laid the foundation of Taiwan's economic prosperity and safeguarded the island from Chinese invasion.
He led the Kuomintang (KMT) party, which ruled Taiwan for 51 years until 2000 when it lost power to the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
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