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on March the 18th students occupy
parliament in response to the signing of
a controversial service trade agreement
with China which was passed without the
knowledge of Congress the agreement
opens up taiwan's service Industries to
Chinese investment I was there since the
first day of the protest and it was kind
of scary at the first night because we
actually broke into the legislative un
and we were like sitting in the me of
the Congress and holding our hands
together the police tried four times to
break into the Congress but what is
funny is we thought that we were drag
out by the police in the first night but
actually this is like the 20 something
night today the occupation led to the
birth of the sunflower movement and
throughout March protest gried the
streets of Taipei with clashes turning
violent on March the 23rd
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you
on March the 30th the protest reached
its peak when an estimated 350 to 5,000
people took to the
streets I think what is precious about
this movement is that uh people start to
think on their
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for
okay
after the news spread out our government
has signed an agreement with China the
whole society was like shocked on March
17th one single congressman declar the
Congress has passed that agreement
without any deliberation within 13
seconds so meeting in Congress was the
most ridiculous one we have ever
witnessed and we ask our government to
establish a congressional procedure to
liberate any kind of cross straight
agreement between Taiwan and
China there are eight gates in this
chamber but all of them are blocked the
police officer tried to break into here
like four times but report back the
yellow pipe is to send in fresh air to
prevent the air here from too
Sant at this is the supply section they
in charge of maintaining and uh keeping
us alive and they provide water and food
and sleeping bag and like everything we
need in in this this
place
and uh the agreement covers some
Industries which are quite sensitive for
our national security like
telecommunications and from a political
perspective as the Communist party has
once announced it's much easier to buy
Taiwan instead of invade Taiwan using
forces
I sleep there almost every day and uh
the floor is very hard it's pretty noisy
and for the first 3 days I didn't sleep
at all this
is usually the place I
sleep I don't know what's going to
happen tomorrow but right now I'm really
tired so I'm going to sleep good
night we as a group
are making history in Taiwan and we are
defending the values so important and so
essential for our people and we get
enormous support
from every Corners in
Taiwan the next day students agreed to
leave Parliament on April the 10th after
the Speaker of the House offered to set
up a mechanism for public oversight
before resuming any trade talks with
China as agreed the students left
Parliament after 24 days of
occupation if the government fails to
keep to their agreement the students
have vowed to return in 60 days the time
it takes for a sunflower seed to reach
full
bloom