TAIPEI (Kyodo) — Former President Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first popularly elected leader who played a key role in the self-ruled island’s democratization, died on Thursday. He was 97.
Lee, who had been in a coma since Feb. 17, for some time, was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m. at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, the hospital said, giving the cause of death as multiple organ failure.
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