Cheng Wei-yuan
Cheng Wei-yuan was a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of National Defense in 1987-1989.In late May 1987 shortly after taking over the minister term, Cheng lead a special envoy of the Political Warfare Bureau conducting the field investigation and excavation discovering the victim cadavres at the first scene to solve the critical case of Lieyu Massacre on 23 May, which resulted as 30 officers under the Kinmen Defense Command being detained to court-martial, and 45 officers receiving the administrative sanction transfer. Later on 14 July, he endorsed the historical decree of President Chiang Ching-kuo to end the infamous 38-year Martial law ruling period in Taiwan.
On 15 March 1998 in Legislative Yuan, Cheng made a statement that personnel of the military were free to join any political party. Nevertheless, they were not allowed to take part in any anti-government protest. Cheng accompanied President Lee Teng-hui on a visit to Singapore in 1989.
