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: [SOC]  Group beating death of a young college student (cont.)
Keywords: Group beating death of a young college student (cont.)
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:40:58 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver, Colorado

Dear Netters:

I would like to share my protest letter for the beating death of Mr.
Luyen Phan Nguyen with everyone. I will send a modifed version of this
letter to 27 officials this week. I also want you to know that I am
not a racist. I want to thank abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) 
and sterrett@manta.nosc.mil (Anthony E. Sterrett) for their sympathy
and advices. Also, I want to thank nguyen@enbp.fsu.edu (Lucy Nguyen)
for her personal info about the beating.

Sincerely Yours,
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Christopher Chu			    Voice: (303)538-3714
AT&T Bell Laboratories		    Fax:   (303)538-3564
11900N Pecos Street          	    Email: nguyen@druhi.ATT.COM (Internet)
Denver, Colorado 80234		    	   att!druhi!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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       RE: Protest of the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen.

       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.

       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 a young and
       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.

       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.

       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.

       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.

       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 a young
       and  intellectually  honorable  and   innocent   Vietnamese-
       American  college  student.  This brave young man, I have no
       doubt in my mind, would still have a lot to offer America if
       he  were  given  an  opportunity to live.  If this priceless
       lesson to teach all of us about the  danger  of  racism  and
       fatal brutality that still exist in our society is not worth
       our attention, please tell me, what would?

       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.

       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.

                                                   Sincerely Yours,

						   Christopher Chu
       REFERENCES

         1.  "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.

         2.  "6TH SUSPECTED ARRESTED IN BEATING DEATH," Patti  Roth
             and Ray Lynch, news source missing, August 21, 1992.

         3.  "SLAIN STUDENT'S FRIENDS, RELATIVES  SAY  FAREWELL  IN
             BUDDHIST  CEREMONY"  by  Sallie  James,  Staff Writer,
             Coral Springs, Sun Sentinel, Florida, August 21,1992.

         4.  "BAIL DENIED  TO  SUSPECT  IN  SLAYING  OF  VIETNAMESE
             STUDENT," Fort Lauderdale (AP), August 29, 1992.

         5.  "ASIAN COMMUNITY RIPS VIOLENCE,"  Kim  Margolis,  news
             source missing, August 29, 1992.

         6.  "TEEN'S  DEATH  SHOCKS   ASIAN   COMMUNITY,"   Marilyn
             Garateix  and  Naftali  Bendavid,  Staff Writer, Miami
             Herald, Florida, August 30, 1992.
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