Tug-of-war dismemberment incident, slug in the gut, failed shower strangulation: three scenes from the political life of Chen Shui-bian

October 25th, 1997

Preliminary reports in the English-language press of the Taipei tug-of-war dismemberment were misleading. Nobody was following the story, so the errors were never clarified.¹ 

The Associated Press was correct that two city officials—Chen Ming-kuo and Yang Chung-ming—had their left arms severed from their bodies, but they were wrong about…