On the southernmost in Taiwan live a number of veterans, who are almost forgotten by the world. Belonged to an army known as Yunnan Anti-Communist National Salvation Army, they were the last guerrillas to retreat from Burma to Tai...

Li-Shao Lee

Southland Soldiers

On the southernmost in Taiwan live a number of veterans, who are almost forgotten by the world. Belonged to an army known as Yunnan Anti-Communist National Salvation Army, they were the last guerrillas to retreat from Burma to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War in 1961. Coming to Taiwan, they settled down and lived in virtual seclusion from the world in four villages by the Laonung River in the south of the island. As kids, still, they couldn't escape the fate of fighting those Communists. To survive, Ma, You-Fu had no choice but to join the guerillas at the age of ten and carried a riffle taller than he was in the mountains; Zhao, Quan-Ying joined the troop as a political officer at 15 and took on the responsibilities of propaganda and troop-cheering activities. When most kids were at home safe and sound with their parents, these child guerillas had to fight and run in the hot, humid rainforest, striving hard for survival in this tug-of-war with Death. Over the past 50 years, with each of their own religious belief and view of life, they settled down by the desolate riverside full of cobbles. They started from scratch, developing the area, and grew old. Today, for the desire economic development, gravel trucks are thundering back and forth around the villages to ship away the gravel. excavator s are here digging one and another gigantic uncanny holes on their dear land, while another silent inner war just began as they face all these changes now.

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