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From: kpham@cs.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: The beating death of Luyen Phan Nguyen
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:48:43 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

	ASIAN COMMUNITY RIPS VIOLENCE
	Leaders say they will fight racial hatred that killed  
	Vietnamese teen.

				By Kim Margolis
				Staff writer

	South Florida's Asian community said on Thusday it will no longer
remain quiet about injustice in the wake of the beating death of Luyen
Phan Nguyen.

	"This deadly and unforgivable act of racial hatred underscores
the rancor and blind hatred with in our own communities that must be
properly addressed," the Asian-American Federation of Florida said in a
news release.

	Nguyen, 19, a pre-med student at the University of Miami, was 
beaten to death on Saturday night by at least five men, police said.

	A fight began after someone used a racial slur to refer to
Nguyen's Vietnamese heritage.
	
	Kee Eng, vice president of the federation, said South Florida's
Asian-Americans have traditionally dealt with discrimination quietly.
Now, he said, Asian-American groups will publicly denounce acts of
racism and work with other community leaders to prevent them.
	
	"We feel it is time we stand up for our rights and be more
visible in the community," said Khanya Moolsiri, president of the federation.
	
	In Dade County, for example, Asian-American businesses no longer
receive minority preference for gouvernment contracts because they did 
not complain of discrimination as Hispanics and African-Americans did,
Eng said.

	Also on Thursday, Coral Springs police released tapes of emergency
911 calls made by people at the apartments where the beating took place.

	Once caller asked police to come to the apartments at 11:34 p.m
because a group of young adults appeared ready "to rumble" and were 
disrupting apartment dwellers by urinating outside.

	A second caller reported that someone had been beaten up "by
30 people. "The caller did not know whether the victim was seriously
injured.

	State attorney Pete Magrino told Coral Springs officers not to
release the second of three calls because it would affect the "on-
going investigation" of Nguyen's death.

	The slaying has drawn national attention.

	Eng said Asian organizations from around the country have
called him to offer their resources. Coral Springs police have fielded
calls from newspapers as far as Seattle.
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From: kpham@cs.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: More news on Luyen Phan Nguyen's death
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:18:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

This article was extracted from Sun Sentinel, friday, Aug 21, 1992

	6th SUSPECTED ARRESTED IN BEATING DEATH.

CORAL SPRINGS -  A sixth suspect was arrested late Thursday in the 
beating death of a Vietnamese pre-med student last weekend, police
said.
	The 19-year-old Tamarac man, whose identity was not released,
was arrested at 9:30p.m during a traffic stop by Fort Lauderdale     
police at Commercial Boulevard near Interstate 95. The youth was       
turned over to Coral Springs police, said Sgt.Jeff Maslan,      
Coral Springs police spokesman. 

	The suspect was charged, as were five other suspects, with 
second-degree murder in the death of Luyen Phan Nguyen,19,during
a party at Springside Apartments after someone made a derogatory
remark about his Vietnamese ancestry.
	
	Police are looking for up to nine more people who might
have taken part in the attack.

					PATTI ROTH
					RAY LYNCH
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------------------------- Forwarded Article #5 ---------------------------
From: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: NEWS: Bail denied to suspect in slaying of Vietnamese student
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:12:42 GMT
Reply-To: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com
Organization: SCV Relay
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu

08/29

Bail denied to suspect in slaying of Vietnamese student

   Fort Lauderdale (AP) -- A teen-ager charged in the beating death of a
Vietnamese student was denied bond by a judge who called the attack "one of
the most heinous crimes of our day."

   Before a courtroom packed with dozens of supporters for the victim's and
the suspect's families, Broward Circuit Judge Richard D. Eade refused to grant
bond Friday for Christopher Scott Anderson, 18, of Coral Springs.

   He is charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Luyen Phan
Nguyen, 19, of Coral Springs.

   Police say the Universiy of Miami pre-med student was beaten, kicked and
punched by at least 15 youths after he objected to racial slurs at a party
Aug. 15. He never regained consciousness and died two days later.

   The bond denial drew cheers from dozens of members of South Florida's
Vietnamese community, who turned out to support Nguyen's family.

   "The whole family is upset about my son's loss. We didn't believe it could
happen to an animal," said the victim's mother, Thang Phan Nguyen, who spoke
publicly for the first time as she walked from the courtroom.

   "Why did that happen to my son? We escaped from Vietnam by boat because of
the communists. We went through the hurricane, a big storm, and we still
survived. How com my son can't survive in Coral Springs, Florida?" she asked.

   Seven other men, age 18 to 22, also have been charged with second-degree
murder in the slaying and have been jailed without bond.

   Anderson's lawyer, Ross Zimmerman, conceded his client started the fight
but said he did not deliver the fatal blow. He argued that Anderson was not a
principal in the killing and should be allowed bond.

   "I'm disappointed with the judge," Zimmerman said afterward. "I think we
will ultimately prove that my client did nothing more than initially strike
the victim and step away."

   More than 40 supporters of Anderson showed up at the hearing and about 35
of them offered to testify on his behalf.
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------------------------- Forwarded Article #6 ---------------------------
From: emy@cs.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Luyen Phan Nguyen's funeral
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:13:19 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

This article was extracted from Sun Sentinel Newspaper in Florida,        
				Friday, August 21,1992

	SLAIN STUDENT'S FRIENDS, RELATIVES SAY FAREWELL
		IN BUDDHIST CEREMONY.

				By SALLIE JAMES
				Staff Writer

	Long Nguyen ,cradling a picture of his dead brother against
his heart, kissed a red carnation and dropped it gently into the 
open grave.

	He blinked back tears as he bade a final goodbye to 
Luyen Phan Nguyen, 19, who police day was beaten to death at a        
weekend party after protesting a racial slur.

	Nguyen, known as "Lu" to his friends, was buried in Memorial
Cemetery in Peerfield Beach on Thursday after a ceremony that was as          
peaceful and serene as his death was violent.

	About 175 friends and relatives, many from South Florida's  
Vietnamese community, packed the chapel at Fraeer Funeral Home in
Coral Springs to bid the University of Miami pre-med student farewell
and to pay their respects to his family.

	In keeping with Buddhist tradition, mourners - many wearing
flooringth kimonos - knelt with bowed heads and bare feet before a
yellow traped altar near the teen's casket, chanting and praying in
the flickering light of candles.

	The chanting, which continued for almost an hour, was a        
request to the Amitaba Buddha to escort the spirit soul of the   
deceased to be reborn in the pure land," said Dao Le, founding
president of the Buddhist Association of South Florida.

	"This is a big loss to the community." Le said after the 
service."We have to live in harmory and avoid this violence. I would
like the community to learn from this incident."

	Many of Nguyen's friends said they had and hoped others   
would. All were sad and some angry.

	"It should never have hapened,"said friend Victor Carrasquillo
18, who ran on the track team with Nguyen in high school.

	"Racism is bad. People have got to wake up and see things
aren't getting any better. We got to come to an understanding or
we're just hurting each other," he said.

	"God wanted to take him and he took him," said Shailesh Gupta
18, a fellow pre-med student at the University of Miami."I feel sad
more than anything. We seem to be living in what some call the    
greatest democracy, but I don't think we address some of these
problems. Racism still exists."

	Family friend Rosemary Tran watched silently as cemetery
workers shoveled dirt over Nguyenls coffin, laid sod and carefully
placed flower arrangements over his grave.

	"We're all so sad. We don't want to leave him," she said,
her voice choked with emotion. "We love him so much."

	To keep his memory alive, friends and neighbors of the teen
will plant a white orchid tree todat at Fern Glen Park in 
Coral Springs.
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From: hllhar01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: sanet.talk.politics,soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: bowel action
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:36:57 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town


Wayne Humphries writes:

> Accounts of how young English privates, captured
> by the Xhosas were skinned alive and their skin left to
> dry on the thornbushes alongside the roads. I will spare
> you the more grim details of what was done to the farmer's
> wives... 

Hmmm...why not e-mail these grim details to Lucio de Re - I think he likes
dramatic stories of "bloed, snot en trane". He's Italian you know....

Hardy
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Mr Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS: SIERRA LEONE: SOLDIERS TURN TO BAND
Originator: barnhart@gagme
Organization: Evanston, Illinois
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:53:32 GMT

Title: SIERRA LEONE: SOLDIERS TURN TO BANDITRY


freetown, aug 21 (ips/lansana fofana) -- after the curfew last
week, gunshots rung out in under hill, east freetown, in an
attack by renegade soldiers on the kissy united bakery.

the robbers killed five staff and got away with four thousand
dollars in cash.

the neighbourhood was gripped with fear reminded of the
evening of april 29 when the military blasted their way to
power, ousting the government of president joseph momoh.

the united bakery robbery incident, is one of dozens of night
raids by bandits in uniform that has become a regular feature
of life in freetown and sierra leone in general since the
imposition of a dawn to dusk curfew last may.

after three months in office captain valentine strasser's
national provisional ruling council (nprc) faces the same thorny
issue that led to his predecessors overthrow. the army is
underpaid, poorly equiped and hungry. who polices the military
when the curfew falls?

raids on local enterprises, private citizens and diplomats
are carried out, apparently by soldiers, with impunity.
recently, a vatican diplomat became a victim of freetown's
night raiders.

in and around the provincial towns, bandits dressed in
military uniform repeatedly jump the curfew and cause mayhem in
night raids.

sorie kamara, a 43 year old resident in bo, the country's
second largest capital, blames this growing insecurity on the
indisciplined army.

''how can civilians jump the military imposed curfew?''
asked sorie, expressing a widely held view that the nprc has
lost control over security.

but a police spokeswoman told ips the government had set up
combined police, army patrols to check the banditry.

an even more hard line measure are the newly set up military
courts to try soldiers suspected of armed robbery offences. the
punishment is death by firing squad.

attacks on the homes of diplomats have become a cause of
concern to the government given the effort it took to win the
endorsement of the international community.

meanwhile, the dusk to dawn curfew is still in force, with
threats of a planed  comeback by the ousted all peoples congress
and the ongoing war with rebels in the south east of the
country, strasser's young administration is clearly under a
a great deal of pressure.(end/ips/lf/ro/oa/92)


-- 
Mr. Aaron Barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:56 PDT
Subject: Re: Media Contacts List
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1471700091:cdp:1471700092:000:257
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmorse    Aug 29 19:56:00 1992


Someone just pleasantly sent me a thankyou note for this list.  I'd
like to emphasize that it wasn't me who compiled it, but Jim Rosenfeld.
He can be emailed at "jnr."

I'm delighted with this list too, and that's why I forwarded it to several
conferences.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: llk@kepler.unh.edu (Local Genius)
Subject: Re: Africa cup
Organization: Department of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:04:50 GMT

In article <saitowit.14@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za> saitowit@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (SAITOWITZ L S) writes:
>A hearty congratulations to Zambia for beating South Africa in our 
>first appearance in the cup. It was a great game, hope to see you again next 
                                                                         ^^^^
>year.
 ^^^^^
For Africa Cup?

>
>Lesley Saitowitz :)

--
lk(with the man in the yellow hat)

** I take one day at a time but lately, several have attacked me 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics
From: poam@giraffe.ru.ac.za (AK MARQUARD)
Subject: Re: unity and other myths
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:24:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.192753.16945@athena.mit.edu> femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony) writes:
>From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
>Subject: Re: unity and other myths
>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:27:53 GMT
>In article <1992Aug26.120033.202521@uctvax.uct.ac.za> hllhar01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
>>
>>
>>According to the newspaper this morning, Nkosi Sikelel i'Afrika will be sung at
>>the soccer game between South Africa and Zambia on Sunday - I don't hear too
>>many people expressing outrage at the insensitivity of singing a song which
>>alienates a large section of South Africa's white population. Double standards
>>perhaps (eh Scott)? Personally I think its cool, they can sing what they like.
>>
>>What has emerged from the anthem and flag controversy is the fact that South
>>Africa isn't a nation, and probably won't ever be one. Everybody seems to take
>>for granted the idea that the political leaders should be promoting unity among
>>South Africans - and finding national symbols and songs forms part of this.
>>It's really very stupid (and possibly quite dangerous as well), what should be
>>promoted in this country at the moment is political and ethnic tolerance -
>>people should be allowed to adopt the songs and symbols of their choice, 
>>regardless of the attitude of the majority of South Africans.
>>
>>As long as political leaders persist with attempts to coerce all South Africans
>>into uncomfortable "unity", there will always be rebellion and ethinic
>>minorities swimming against the flow. Tolerance and freedom of expression I say
>>- unity is a myth!
>>
>>Hardy Hulley
>>
>>
>>
>
>Another idiotic posting from UCT as usual. It makes one wonder what
>kinds of people are in S.Africa's white universities when this
>supposedly "integrated" university has people with such mindsets.
>
>Femi.
>
>
>hear hear!
Andrew Marquard
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,apc.reg.safrica,sanet.talk.politics
From: g91h7029@alpha.ru.ac.za (Wayne Humphries)
Subject: Re: Campus Fascists
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:06:52 GMT

In <1992Sep2.163942.18632@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> gavan@elc.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux) writes:

>Freedom of speech at South African universities has long been
>under fire. In most cases, it's all but disappeared, except
>on the net. 

>Debates involving outside speakers have continually been disrupted,
>violently, with speakers often fearing for their lives. The culprits
>have uniformly been ANC aligned students.

>At UCT this Wednesday 2 September, a debate involving the SAIRR,
>the HRC, CASE and Inkatha was disrupted by the ANC aligned
>SASCO - South African Students Congress. It could not take place
>due to raucous chanting and singing, pounding of desks, and so on.
>It was called off. 

>The students objected to the inclusion of Inkatha in the debate.
>They stated categorically that Inkatha would not be allowed to 
>speak on campus. This broke an agreement between UCT admin and SASCO
>that the debate would take place once SASCO had "stated their objection
>to it".

>Hardly surprising, it's been happening for years here, rather more
>violently. It gives a good indication of the democratic credentials
>of the ANC and its followers.

>Last year UCT was brought to a standstill by a workers strike in which
>barricades were erected, people assaulted, lectures violently disrupted
>and so, by a coalition of a trade union and some students from the ANC
>camp. The same students were involved today. At the time, this was 
>PUBLICALLY SUPPORTED by the Western Cape branch of the ANC.

>This throws interesting light on the controversy surrounding the
>violence between the ANC and Inkatha. Here is a clearcut case of the
>ANC and its motley following initiating violence. And it *is* violence,
>similar to rape.

>Gavan Tredoux
>Dept Math / Dept Philosophy
>UCT

Music soothes the savage breast. My rallies will be rock concerts that
drown out any feedback except for the propaganda being pumped out through
my speakers. In addition, everyone will have been made as drunk and as
stoned as possible and I personally feel that after the live semi-nude
cabaret they will be receptive to my extreme, ultra, lunatic, fringe,
fanatical, loony, far right wing message.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,apc.reg.safrica,sanet.talk.politics
From: gavan@elc.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux)
Subject: SASCO rides again
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 16:52:04 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

[ Article reposted from uct.chat ]
[ Author was Brendt Wohlberg ]
[ Posted on Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:55:40 GMT ]

The UCT branch of SASCO today gave another demonstration of its commitment to
freedom of speech at a lunch-time debate on the violence in SA. Their objection
appears to have been that a speaker from the Inkatha Institute was present, and
that the proper channels for organising such meetings were not followed. The 
organisers claimed that the only irregularity was that only three days notice
instead of seven was given.

Prof. Martin West (of 1991 UCT strikes fame) negotiated with the leader of the
SASCO 'delegation' while his followers performed a sterling song-and-dance
routine. After about 30 minutes of disruptions, SASCO agreed to allow the 
debate to continue on condition that they were first allowed to state their
objections to the presence of the Inkatha Institute speaker. 

The SASCO speaker's address was roughly along the lines of 'We believe in
freedom of speech, BUT.....' Afterwards the SASCO members resumed disruptions,
(the agreement to allow the debate to continue happily ignored) and the invited
speakers left. 

West managed to get a good laugh out of the SASCO supporters by quoting Bishop
Tutu on politcal tolerance. In a highly amusing postscript to the meeting, some
twit in the audience stood up and accused West of 'provoking' SASCO. Ha, bloody
ha.

--
______________________________________
Brendt Wohlberg                       |
Electronic Engineering Department     |
University of Cape Town               |
e-mail: brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za      |
        whlbre01@uctvax.uct.ac.za     |
        bwohlberg@eleceng.uct.ac.za   |
______________________________________|
From: Steve.Hayes@p5.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org (Steve Hayes)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: How can we help Boznia.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 18:48:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7101/22.5 - Novell User Group, Pretoria RSA

On <20 Aug 1992 22:39> John Ata FSO (5:7104/2) said to All :

 JAF>The State Department currently recgonizes Bosnia as an 
 JAF>independent
 JAF>country and has moved to establish displomatic relations with 
 JAF>it.
 JAF>So it is officially not a civil war.  Remember also that Sadam

Ah! The State Department speaks, the world trembles.

Seems that US imperialism is alive and well.

How long before they recognize Quebec, Wales and Boputhatswana?



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Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: mokaba@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: "welcome" in Setswana.
Reply-To: mokaba@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:46:18 GMT

The recent enquiry into the Setswana word for "welcome" is thought provoking
in deed. First, two different words were given by Ntseane and Hayes. I am
sure the original poster was left confused as to whcih one to use. The 
confusion, I think the confusion stated when the word "welcome" was stated
indepedent of the context or purpose for which it will be used. For

example it is not clear wether the word was to be use for thanking someone
as in the North American clolloqual use.. Thank you... "you are welcome".
If that is the case then the appropriate Setswana word is "eya rra"
for a man and "eya mma" for a woman or better still .. you can thank
someon back by saying "go leboga rona" literally meaning It's us who 
thank you". On the other hand if the word welcome is used to welcome
someone in ones home or country... as in welcome to Port Elizabeth.. or
welcome to Gaberone, Huston , America.. you would say " goroga ka pula".
ala Ntseane.  
The meaning given by Hayes, "dumela rra kapa (or) mma" , literally means
Hello sir or dad respectively. Dumela  does not mean welcome.. unless
there is another colloqual meaning.. 
If you have a new students/scholar or visitor from Botswana please contact
us.
From: g91h7029@alpha.ru.ac.za (Wayne Humphries)
Subject: Operation DesertStorm
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:03:44 GMT

Let us abolish all law. All police. All army. They are the only things
preventing the complete annihilation of the barbarian in our country.
A law that sanctions the murder of elderly people on remote farms. A
crime rate almost as bad as the United States. The only political solution
for the country is to let them fight it out in the Karoo. I'm dying to
know if Slovo has also got disassembled attack helicopters buried on his
farm.