From: "J. Cen [404] 727-4676" <PHSJJC@EMRYCC.BITNET>
Subject:      Forward: Shen Tong? (V)
Reply-To: "J. Cen [404] 727-4676" <PHSJJC@EMRYCC.BITNET>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:53:00 GMT

Dear Netters:

        The reporters at Daily Free Press (the student newspaper at
Boston University) probably did some fact-finding and came up with
a follow-up in an article that deals with the other aspects of the
story [for details see "Shen Tong? (I)--(IV)"] in its October 7 issue.

James J. Cen
Emory University
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Shen Endangered Colleagues, Caused Arrests, Peers Say
By Michelle Becker, David B. Caruso and Michele Comandini
Daily Free Press Staff writers.

Local  Chinese political activitists now say that Shen Tong,  the
Boston  University  graduate student imprisoned for more  than  a
month  in  China,  not  only lied about his  involvement  in  the
student  uprising  in Tainanmen  Square,  but that  his  reckless
travel  and  meetings  lead  to  the  arrests  of  some  of   his
colleagues.

Shen  was arrested a week after his arrival in Beijing August 31,
hours before  he was scheduled to deliver a news conference.

" I do not condemn Shen Tong, I just don't like the way he works.
He put  others in danger,  " treasurer for the China's Long March
for Democracy Chunbg Tse [Chung-chi Tse] said.  " He should  have
known  better.  He prepared everything to make himself more well-
known."

Tse said he heard from sources in the Hong Kong  Alliance,  which
runs the underground railroads between China and Hong Kong,  that
every  time  Shen  met with people involved  in  the  underground
democratic movement,  people were arrested by the government soon
after.

"  I  trust  the  Hong Kong Alliance,"  Tse  said.  "  They  have
protected  over 800 freedom fighters and kept them in hiding."

"Shen should have known he was monitored by the government and he
should not have visited these people, " he added.

"They should have come to him at their own risk,  but Shen didn't
give them  a choice because he came to them."

But a biography released on Shen by his Democracy for China Fund,
said he scrambled to hide in safe areas from the army.  According
to  the  biography, he  attempted " to reason with  the  advancing
troops...  his  life was saved by civilians who pulled  him  away
from the troops and secretly hid him in several locations, moving
him from day to day."

Newton,  Mass-based  China Information Center board of  directors
member   Gong  Xiaoxia  said  that  SHen  was  irresponsible  for
conducting  "American  politics" in China,  and should have known
his action would lead to arrests.

Gong,  who was prevented from returning to China last spring  for
her   involvement in Tiananmen,  said Shen's arrest was based  on
his  attempt  to  open the Democracy for China branch  without  a
required government permit.

Xian  Xiao Ti,  a  member of  the  goevrnment-approved  Dialect
     [Xiaoji]                                          [Dialogue]
Committee established to act as a liason between students and the
Chinese  government and of which Shen was also a member, said the
government was using Shen to find and arrest others.

In  article  in the Chinese community  newspaper  World  Journal,
Hunan Independent Student Union chairman Tang Bo Chao said he was
                                             [Boqiao]
upset  because  Shen did not follow plans they had made  for  his
return.  This endangered Chao's contacts and forced them to leave
China.

Chao  claims that he gave Shen the names and addresses of  people
who were involved in the underground railroad.

He  said  that in many instances when Shen met with these  people
they  were  arrested.   Chao  explained  that  after  a   Beijing
university assistant teacher met with Shen, he disappered, adding
that  he  believes  the professor was arrested   by  the  Chinese
government.

Controversial  over Shen's involvement in the Tiananmen  incident
arose   when  Columbia University asssitant professor Stephen  Ng
charged  Sunday  that  Shen  falsely  represented  himeself   and
endangered other students when he returned to Beijing this summer.

Shen's BU colleagues came to Shen's support Monday,  saying  that
he  did  not  lie about his role in the  revolution  and  remains
committed to a  democractic China.
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