on February 28, 2017 for attempting to pull down a bronze Chiang statue using an angle grinder. Charges against the four for obstructing the police were later dropped, as the four had not resisted arrest. City policies Shortly after entering office in November 2014, mayor Twu Shiing-jer ordered the removal of Chiang statues within Chiayi. In March 2015, Tainan removed Chiang statues from fourteen elementary and junior high school campuses and sent them to Daxi at Mayor William Lai's (DPP) direction. Lai announced the plan to remove the statues on 28 February 2015, during an event marking the 68th anniversary of the 228 Incident, stating the removal was both to avoid the annual vandalism of Chiang statues and to lift the symbols of autocratic rule in Taiwan. KMT Tainan city councilors criticized the secretive manner in which the Chiang statues were removed, and compared Lai to ISIS for wholesale destruction of cultural artifacts. The next day, the mayors of Taipei (Ko Wen-je) and Keelung (Lin Yu-chang) demurred on removing their cities' Chiang statues, seeking to avoid confrontation, while the mayor of Taoyuan City (Cheng Wen-tsan) stated the Chiang statues on Taoyuan's school campuses and public offices would be sent to Daxi. Keelung reversed its position a week later, declaring that its Chiang statues would be removed in the near future. Pro-independence activists threatened to file a lawsuit to remove Chiang statues from Taipei in a statement released in October 2015. Other policies Late in March 2015, DPP legislator Pasuya Yao proposed a nationwide removal of Chiang statues, and further proposed that new currency should be issued to eliminate images of Chiang from the 1, 5 and 10 coins and the 200 bill. In April 2017, the stone statue of Chiang in Yangmingshan was beheaded by a group claiming retaliation for the earlier beheading of a statue of Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta. The head of the Chiang statue was not recovered. One day later, Yao drafted a bill to rename the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and to remove all Chiang statues nationwide to Daxi. Gallery See also National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Song Sun Yat-sen List of statues of Lenin List of statues of Stalin Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials References External links Monuments and memorials in Taiwan Cultural depictions of Chiang Kai-shek Statues of presidents Statues of military officers Monument cemeteries Vandalized works of