People protect Diaoyutai Islands, It is a holy action. It is a peace action. It is a international justice action. Japan's invasion is a militarism's action.
Diaoyutai Islands protests of 1971, and the "blood petition" when 2000 students signed a petition against Japan and the US using their own blood.
The chairman of a combined organizing committee, Tan Jiahua, organized the signing of a petition in blood, or a “blood letter” (xue shu) to present to the American and Japanese embassies. Students lined up at the campus health centre where four nurses drew blood from each student, who then took a calligraphy brush to write his or her name. Some students wrote with their fingertips pricked with a disinfected needle. The blood letter day began at eight in the morning and continued until after six, at which time there were four, ten metre-long petitions with a total of over two thousand names.
Most of the protests occurred on Taipei university campuses, where students organized committees, engaged in rallies and protest marches, and wrote petitions. The leaders of the activities were mainly students from Hong Kong and Macao.
