From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Vietnamese Chinese beaten dead.
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:25:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.203834.16831@news.media.mit.edu> 0003752801@mcimail.com writes:
>
>Hi everyone:
>
>Following is some information on the fatal beating of Luyen Phan Nguyen, a 
>Vietnamese pre-med student in Coral Springs, Florida (first posted on the  
>net by Thanh Nguyen).
>
>According to several press articles from Miami area (Miami Herald, etc..), 
>there may be more than five (arrested) students involved in the beating.  
>More arrests are expected.  Could be 10 or  15 in total.
>
>The beating started after a surprise going party for some friends.  Most 
>party-goers are recent highschool graduates.  Luyen was going with two 
>American friends.  During the party, someone had some racial slurs against 
>him.  Probably "Chink."  He said something to object to it.  After the  
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>party, a group of people waiting for him at the elevator and started the 
>fight.  One person was holding him for others to beat.  He escaped several 
>times but was chased down like a "wounded deer."  Someone was yelling "I 
>hate Vietnamese" while beating him.  Someone else hit his head against a 
>light post.  After he became unsconscious, the mob simply laughed and 
>walked away.  Someone turned back and kicked his lifeless limbs several 
>times.
>
>His two friends had run to call the  police.  Other party goers did not 
>interfered, saying that the commotion was to frenzy to interfere.  (Total 
>about 30 people in the party).  People in the apartment complex heard his 
>scream, but no one interfered.
>
>I've talked to Mr. Chu Ba' Ye^'n, president of the Vietnamese Community of 
>the State of Florida and owner of the Florida Vie^.t Ba'o in Miami.  The 
>Vietnamese Community for Southern Florida (Miami-based) is planning to 
>organize a special task force for this matter.  Probably the task force may 
>have a longer vision at racial discrimination against Vietnamese in the US.  
>It could be called Committee for Protection of Human Rights and Civil 
>Rights of Vietnamese American.  The Vietnamese community is meeting this 
>afternoon (2pm Friday).
>
>Mrs. Dong Thanh Ingalls in Tampa, a vice president of the Vietnamese 
>National Congress (Nghi Hoi Toan Quoc) is also involved in this cause.  I 
>understand that Nguye^.t A'nh (singer, owner of Pho^' Nho? newspaper in 
>D.C. is on her way to Florida.
>
>I have my local counsel, the law firm of Mitani, Rynor & Gellegos, P.A.  in 
>Miami on the ball to offer legal advice to the Vietnamese group.  We want 
>to be sure that prosecutors and judges do their job properly in this case.  
>And of course I am available for legal advice also.  
>
>The Asian American Federation has been contacting the Vietnamese community 
>in Florida to give political support and organizing this as an Asian issue.  
>My local counsel and I are talking to the National Asian Pacific American 
>Bar Assiciation. 
>
>What can the SCVers do? 
>I think SCV can have a committee of itself to support the Miami committee, 
>to transmit information (that is what SCVers can do best), to provide 
>connections, and to seek time or financial support.  Some SCVers have shown 
>a remarkable ability to make time and energy to fight AGAINST each other.  
>Let's stop it and work on this to fight FOR each other intead.  O.K., guys?
>
>Now, someone should volunteer to start the SCV group.  I am available for 
>advice.  Please feel free to send me an email.
>
>Have a good weekend, everyone.
>
>Me^'n
>Hoa`nh 
> 

Thanks to Hoa`nh for your informantion and willingness to help. I think it is
time SCV be united and focus to bring justice to this case and put those bastards
in jail for good.


>Date:     Wed Aug 19, 1992  4:00 pm  EST
>From:     THANH NGUYEN
>          EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
>          MBX: edwind@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov
>
>Associates Press, Coral Springs, Fla.
>
>Five men were being held without bond yesterday in the fatal beating of a
>Vietnamese college student who was chased down like "an injured deer" after
>he objected to a racial slur, police said.
>
>Luyen Phan Nguyen, 19, a pre-med student at the University of Miami, died
>Monday of head wounds suffered when he was chased and beaten outside a
>party Saturday night.  Nguyen never emerged from a coma, officals said.
>
>Nguyen's family left Vietnamin 1980 and settled in Coral Springs six years
>ago.  He had hoped to become a doctor like his father.
>
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>
>Those of you who live in the Miami area, please provide us more information
>about this case.  Please also let us know what Vietnamese comunities across
>the U.S. can do to bring these five murderers to justice.   This is NOT the
>first time it happened in Miami.  It happened before, and it will happen
>again unless we Vietnamese are united to fight against racial violence and
>injustice in America.  What can we do to stop and prevent this kind of
>racial violence to happen again to our Vietnamese people here in the 
>U.S.???
>Please let me hear your ideas and suggestions.
>
>T. Nguyen
>
>Command: re
>


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