From: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Christopher Chu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,soc.culture.filipino,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: [SOC] PETITION FOR LUYEN NGUYEN
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:30:07 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver, Colorado

Dear Netters,

During the last few days, I have been building a list of petitioners who
will share a petition letter against the beating death of Mr. Nguyen Phan
Nguyen. This petition is a follow-up of my original and individual protest
letter that was sent to 28 of U.S. officials last week. If you feel that
the petition that we plan to send should also go to other officials and
agencies, please provide me with names and addresses and I will send the
final version of the petition with a separate note to them.

The 28 officials above included the Governor and Lt. Governor of Florida,
two Senators from Florida, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State,
the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and a major number of
Congressman and Congresswomen from Florida. The names and addresses of these
officials were originally posted by Mr/MRS/MS Le Tran <0005008625@mcimail.com>.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr/MRS/MS Le for what he/she
did. My private email to him/her has bounded after 3 days of wandering
around the Internet.

I forwarded a draft troff-version of the complete petition below. This
version has incorporated the most recent corrective suggestions made by
Cuong T. Nguyen from Stanford <cuong@haydn.stanford.edu> :-) Attached with
this letter are the list of all petitioners and my original protest letter
which may be useful for further reference.

I will send a slightly modified version of the petition above by Saturday,
September 19, 1992. This time delay is also necessary for all participants
to have time to provide me with feedback that they may have. I also need
this time to locate a number of newspapers, Radio and TV stations in Florida
to which this petition will also be made known. I would appreciate very much
if Florida netters, who know these addresses, would post them on the net.

I want to thank all netters for allowing me this opportunity to raise
my voice. I sincerely thank those who have participated in this petition
against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen. I have been profoundly
touched with the concerns and care from you, especially from the Chinese,
Phillipino, Korean, Indian and several other non-Vietnamese netters.
I am so glad to find these people, most of whom several thousand miles
away, but who have readily shared the same concern and responsibility for
our well-being.

Sincerely Yours,

Chris
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Christopher Chu			    Voice: (303)538-3714
AT&T Bell Laboratories		    Fax:   (303)538-3564
11900N Pecos Street          	    Email: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Internet)
Denver, Colorado 80234		    	   att!drutx!nguyen     (UUCP)

Disclaimer: the above opinions, comments, advices, suggestions, or ideas
are my own. In this mail, I am NOT representing or speaking on behalf of
AT&T or the Bell Laboratories.
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								Christopher Chu
								10113 Irving Street
								Westminster, CO 80030

								September, 12, 1992

RE: Petition against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen.

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Last week, I took the opportunity to write to you a letter
expressing my concern about the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen
by a group of young college party-goers in Coral Springs, Florida.
Attachment 2 contains this letter for your reference.
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Since I sent this letter, a number of my friends and colleagues all over
the country have also raised their voices to share similar concerns about this
shocking news. It is my privilege to present to you the follow-up petition
on behalf of these American citizens. Each of us can be reached individually
using the corresponding computer electronic mail address included in
attachment 1.
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We feel that the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen is a crime of
federal offense and its order of magnitude is too serious to be ignored.
We can not accept this barbaric killing and its potential impact that will
further promote racial hatred and brutality in America.  We believe
that the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen should be made known to
all American people, especially to U.S. officials. We long for appropriate
measures such as legal actions and social education efforts to make our
society a better place for all of us to live.
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We stand firmly together on this matter of justice and we plan to make our
stance known to the media. We respectfully request indictments that charge
the dangerous individuals who participated in the beating death of Mr. Luyen
Phan Nguyen with murder for their brutal killing of our innocent and
honorable American citizen. We strongly believe that a lighter punishment
for these individuals would encourage further threats of racism and fatal
brutality in our society.
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We thank you in advance for your time and consideration. We sincerely hope
that you will support us to demand justice for the beating death of Mr.
Luyen Phan Nguyen. We respectfully volunteer our efforts if we can be of any
help in this fight for justice. We believe that our serious concerns
and the influence that you will put forth to support our petition will help
maintain and strengthen justice for all American people.
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								Sincerely Yours,



								Christopher Chu
								On behalf of all petitioners
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List of Petitioners - Against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen
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Name                     | Electronic Mail Address       | Citizenship
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Chinh Le                 | chinhl@spuds.sps.mot.com      | American *
Cuong T. Nguyen          | cuong@haydn.stanford.edu      | American *
Duc M. Pham              | Duc.M.Pham@Dartmouth.edu      | American
Fred Ki                  | fredki@silicon.key.amdahl.com | American
Garrick Le               | garrick@kpc.com               | American
Hung Le                  | octela!khe!hung@uunet.UU.NET  | American
Huong Ho                 | ho@uda.dgcd.doc.ca            | Canadian
Hy Truong Lam            | hy@alumni.Berkeley.edu        | American
Jeffrey R. Pych          | attmail!mso30k!pych           | American
Jose Ramon G. Albert     | albert@ams.sunysb.edu         | American
Kelvin Leung             | abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu       | American
Kenneth Yerro Ilio       | kyig6809@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     | American
Kumar Yelubandi          | kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca            | Canadian
Lam Pham                 | pham@itd.nrl.navy.mil         | American
Lana L. Vutai-Pham       | vupham@ihlpl.att.com          | American
Linda Le                 | chau@hao.ucar.edu             | American
Maria Elena Y. Francisco | mfrancis@brandeis.bitnet      | American
Mike Shane               | mshane@bldvma.vnet.ibm.com    | American
Nhon Van Tran            | ntran@danang.East.Sun.COM     | American
Richard Aronce Torres    | richardt@ifi.uio.no           | Norwegian
Robert M. Klein	         | rmk@druhi.att.com             | American
Sauwai Lau               | sl55050@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu      | American
Thanh Bui                | tkb@genrad.com                | American
Tien Dang Nguyen         | 0003161562@mcimail.com        | American
Tien Nguyen, Ph.D.       | tien@nmdhst.cc.nih.gov        | American *
Tuan Anh Nguyen          | nguyen00%snynewvm.bitnet      | American
Tuan Cong Hoang          | tuan@pyrmail.mis.pyramid.com  | American
Tuan Tu, Pharm. D.       | tuantu@unmcvm.unmc.edu        | American
Van Tran                 | 0005359961@mcimail.com        | American
Vo Nghi                  | vo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu       | American
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Compiled by Christopher Chu <nguyen@drutx.att.com>, September 12, 1992.
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Temporary note: * indicates that this participant has requested to
explicitly review the petition before his/her name may be included.
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								Christopher Chu
								10113 Irving Street
								Westminster, CO 80030

								September 4, 1992

RE: Protest of the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen.

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I have learned about the beating death of a Vietnamese college student,
Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen, by a group of college party-goers in Coral Springs,
South Florida, during the last two weeks. I obtained this information
from several articles written in various newspapers and the USENET computer
network news. The reference page attached to this letter lists six related
news articles for your reference. I am writing this letter to express my
concern about the recorded violence and to call for your attention to this
justice matter.
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I have not found any reason to justify the beating death of a human-being
due to racial hatred that emerged from a college party; I thought that
college parties are supposed to be joyous. I hardly can find appropriate
and brief words to express my fright about the brutality exposed by a group
of college party-goers that beat and killed an innocent student.
I wonder if I will ever regret, at some point in my life, for allowing my
young and loved ones to continue to go to their favorite college parties.
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I think the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen fundamentally exceeds
the violence demonstrated in Rodney King's beating. It is also beyond the
crimes committed by drug addicts or serial killers. It is clearly more than
a simple crime since its essence is about the brutal nature of normal and
young individuals who could kill completely innocent people due to nothing
but racial hatred.
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I believe that allowing any individual among these dangerous people to be
free on the our street would be a serious mistake. Such forgiveness would
encourage further serious threats of racism to all American people. If the
individuals who have participated in the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan
Nguyen are not seriously identified and punished by our court, I am certain
that more public killing and brutality will continue to harm and
disintegrate our people.
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I heard some people argue that the racial violence I have described is not
new and thus, we should not bother. Contrary to these people's belief,
I would like to emphasize again that this beating death of an innocent
Vietnamese student by mostly white young men is more serious than racism;
perhaps, the term "racism" might have been used to alleviate the sickness
of fatal brutality. If a normal young individual could have killed an innocent
student in a party because of racial arguments, then he or she can do the
same thing to anyone else on our street. And if an individual could have
killed innocent people because of hatred, it would be likely that he
or she would commit similar criminal acts again for any other reason.
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I want to tell all by-standers that I strongly believe that the beating
death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen is worth the serious attention of each and
everyone of us. For this justice matter to come to light, it cost the life
of an intellectually honorable and innocent Vietnamese-American
college student. I have no doubt in my mind that this brave young man would
still have a lot to offer America if he were given an opportunity to live.
If this priceless lesson that taught us about the danger of racism and fatal
brutality that still exists in our society today is not worth our attention,
then, please tell me, what would?
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I sincerely request that you use all the power that you have to fight for
the justice of this matter. I hope that our justice system will function
at its best to identify the dangerous individuals in the beating death of
Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen. I respectfully request indictments that charge these
young but dangerous individuals with murder for their killing of our
intellectually honorable and innocent society member.
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I thank you in advance for your time and consideration. I sincerely hope
that you will put your energy into this matter to assure that justice is
served and social order is respectedly maintained by and for all people.
I trust that the American votes in the past and your efforts today in this
justice matter are the representative but fundamental constituents of the
intrinsic value of our justice system.
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								Sincerely Yours,


								Christopher Chu
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REFERENCES
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"VICTIM WAS 'NICE GUY': LUYEN PHAN NGUYEN BEATEN TO
DEATH IN CORAL SPRINGS," Larry Kahn, Forum Staff, Forum, Coral
Springs-Parkland, Vol 23, No.34, Sun Sentinel, Florida,
August 20, 1992.
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"6TH SUSPECTED ARRESTED IN BEATING DEATH," Patti Roth and Ray Lynch,
news source missing,
August 21, 1992.
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"SLAIN STUDENT'S FRIENDS, RELATIVES SAY FAREWELL IN
BUDDHIST CEREMONY" by Sallie James, Staff Writer, Coral Springs,
Sun Sentinel, Florida,
August 21,1992.
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"BAIL DENIED TO SUSPECT IN SLAYING OF VIETNAMESE STUDENT,"
Fort Lauderdale (AP),
August 29, 1992.
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"ASIAN COMMUNITY RIPS VIOLENCE," Kim Margolis, news source missing,
August 29, 1992.
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"TEEN'S DEATH SHOCKS ASIAN COMMUNITY," Marilyn
Garateix and Naftali Bendavid, Staff Writer, Miami Herald, Florida,
August 30, 1992.
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