Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident
Yilan County Pingtan County Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident (Taiwan) | |
| Native name | 閩平漁5540號事件 |
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| English name | Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident |
| Date | July 21–22, 1990 |
| Location | Aodi, Yilan County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China |
| Cause | Taiwan Garrison Command forced the illegal immigrants into sealed holds of the boat for repatriation. |
| Participants | 76 Fujian residents being repatriated, Taiwan Garrison Command |
| Deaths | 25 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 閩平漁5540號事件 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 闽平渔5540号事件 | ||||||
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The Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident (simplified Chinese: 闽平渔5540号事件; traditional Chinese: 閩平漁5540號事件) was an incident that occurred on July 21–22, 1990, when the Taiwan Garrison Command (TGC) forced 76 mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a boat while repatriating them from Taiwan to Fujian, causing 25 of them to die by suffocation. Twenty-three days after the incident, another mainland Chinese fishing boat, Min Ping Yu No. 5202, was hit by a Taiwanese naval destroyer escort in its repatriation operation, killing 21 of the 50 illegal immigrants on board.