From: yan@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Yongfei Yan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Anniversary for the Halloween Tragedy in University of Iowa
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:50:20 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

In article <1992Nov8.165851.1@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu> wnf_222@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov8.213605.4746@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, jli@bingham.utah.edu (Jianliang Li) writes:
>>>How do you know that???
>>>
>>>I suggest that you read my previous post or ask CND to send you a full copy of 
>>>our letter.   Please note:  ALL chinese students metioned in Mr. Liu's article
>>>agree the content of this letter.
>>>
>>>Feng, Wei
>>>Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
>>>The Univ. of Iowa
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 	Why don't you folks in UI post your letter and names?  Why not give your
>> opinions and details of the story?  I personally believe that everyone is
>> a good person.  Nobody will commit vital mistakes unless he/she is forced
>> to the extrem.  Also, I do NOT think everything is BAD about a BAD person.
>> 
>
>Since the letter is a reply to CMD-CM, we would like to give them enough time
>to pulish our full letter first.  And you bet our real names are on it, except
>for one student, Mr. X in Mr. Liu's article.    He also agrees the content of 
>the letter, but he would like to keep his name anonymous as he always did.
>
>Let me say it one more time:  we do NOT think everything is BAD about a BAD 
>person either.    Our point is:  Mr. Liu Yujian's article distorted the  facts
>and mislead the public.    
>
>Our opinions about Mr. Liu's article are fully given in our signed letter.  So
>far we do not give our side of stories publicly is: first, we don't want to talk
>about it since it is still hurt, even to us.  Second, we do not want to comment 
>directly on the victims.
>
>Yes, among ourself, we do have different opinions on Lu Gang's personality.  
>I think it is normal.   But all of us do agree:  
>      1).  It is NOT all Lu Gang's fault.
>      2).  Mr. Liu's Article is extremely biased and distorted the truth.

I understand that it hurts for you guys to even mention the incident,
let alone write about it. However, I do think that the English media
tried to distort ( at least hide ) facts and mislead the public a year
ago. The implication of last year's English coverage is that we Chinese student
are inner-fighters who could turn out to be terrorists by an
insignificant mishap. This stereotype is certainly not fair to us, and
we should reveal the truth behind the unhappy incident to clear our
name. Unfortunately, the only people who can clear our image are Chinese
students in IU. 

I would be very pleased to see your signed letter.


Yongfei Yan
>
>
>Feng, Wei
>Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
>The Univ. of Iowa
>>      
>> 
>> JLI
>> 
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