The Xincheng Incident () is an event that took place in 1896 in the city of Shinjō (present-day
Xincheng),
Tainan Prefecture,
Taiwan, Empire of Japan. The chief of the Truku tribe, Haruq Nawi, led 20 aboriginal warriors against the Japanese forces, killing 13 Japanese soldiers.
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Background and causes
Since the Japanese empire took over Taiwan in 1895, there had been a growing tension between the local aboriginal tribes trying to protect their villages and hunting grounds and the Japanese forces which aimed to take over control of aboriginals lands in order to exploit natural resources.
The Xincheng event was mostly caused by sexual abuses of aboriginal women by Japanese soldiers.
Consequences
After the incident the Japanese forces launched a series of retaliatory attacks on the
Truku, taking advantage of their terrain knowledge manage to resist hiding in the mountain villages. The Japanese were forced to withdraw and offered amnesty to the aboriginal who surrendered.
After different conflicts the
Truku War ended in 1914 with the victory of the Japanese over the
Truku people.
See also
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History of Taiwan
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Taiwan under Japanese rule
The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The sh ...
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Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples (formerly Taiwanese aborigines), also known as Formosan people, Austronesian Taiwanese, Yuanzhumin or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 5 ...
References
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Conflicts in 1896
History of Taiwan
Hualien County