Shih Ming-teh was Taiwan's indomitable fighter for democracy
TAIPEI -- Shih Ming-teh, who died of liver cancer on his 83rd birthday, was a champion of Taiwan's brutal and bloody struggle for democracy and played a defining role in Asia's democratization. He spent collectively more than a quarter of a century behind bars under Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime and allied himself with other Asian fighters for democracy such as Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia.