On 1 June 2000, a former NSB official[REF] who was a retired one-star army general made a personal visit to the PRC and was detained three days later by the PRC Ministry of State Security.
In the afternoon of 19 March 2004, President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were wounded by gunfire on the day before the presidential election, while they were campaigning in Tainan.