Taiwanese students end protest with threat
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STUDENT activists yesterday ended a three-week occupation of Taiwan’s legislative body in Taipei in protest at a service trade pact with China’s mainland, but threatened more action unless their demands are met.
“The departure does not mean we are giving up,” said student leader Lin Fei-fan, shortly before dozens of students walked out of the building about 6pm.
Their next moves “could be more comprehensive” unless guarantees given by Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party are honored, Lin said.
In Taiwan’s first such protest, the students occupied the main chamber of the legislative body on March 18, barricading themselves in.
The standoff ended after Wang Jin-pyng, a political heavyweight from the Kuomintang, met the students and offered concessions.
Wang pledged not to preside over further debate on the pact until a law is introduced to monitor such agreements with the mainland — a key demand of the protesters.
The protesters have urged the government to retract the trade deal, a demand which Taiwan’s leader Ma Ying-jeou has flatly rejected.
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