The first recommendation, also the first in Taiwanese history, came on October 5, 2018, when 1,270 people were exonerated, including writer Yang Kui and 27 Taiwanese aborigines.[19][20][21] On February 27, 1,056 people were exonerated.[22] On May 30, 2019, 3,062 people were exonerated, including former vice president Annette Lu, former mayor of Kaohsiung Chen Chu and Shih Ming-teh.[23] Thus far, a total of 5,837 have been exonerated due to recommendations made by the commission [24] On December 17, 2018, the commission recommended that the honor guard at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall be discontinued, as it is a symbol of the authoritarian era.