Gukeng 228 Monument

A small memorial beside Provincial Highway 3 in Kanjiao Village (崁腳村), Gukeng, marking the spot where retreating resistance fighters were ambushed and gunned down by KMT troops on March 18th, 1947, during the 228 Incident. The bodies were hastily buried in unmarked graves and later disturbed in 1956 when the army seized the land for a firing range. Following a 1997 exhumation that recovered 15 sets of remains, the monument was raised on the original burial site in 2000, the only 228 memorial in Taiwan built where victims’ bones were actually unearthed.