From: anthony@cmd.com (Anthony Truong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: Five held in death of Vietnamese student
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:29:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: gate.9208191812.AA01581


>From: edwind@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (THANH NGUYEN)
>Subject: Five held in death of Vietnamese student
>
>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
>

Hi anh Thanh Nguyen,

Thanks for sharing this piece of very sad news with us.  This incident was
horrible.  I agree with you that we Vietnamese have to voice our concern
about this and to try making sure that justice is served.  This could happen
to any of us, to our friends, and to our families.  It will definitely
happen again unless we do something right now about it.

I have several suggestions:

1. Get a full account of this incident.  SCV netters in Florida, please help!

2. Contact family of anh Luyen Phan Nguyen to offer condolence and see if
   they need legal help in prosecuting the killers.  We need to set up a
   fund to help out anh Nguyen's family.  Again we ask for help from local
   SCV netters.

3. Make sure that our own community is aware of this unfortunate incident.
   Contact our local Vietnamese newspaper publishers and church organizers
   to let them pass the news.

4. Contact Coral Springs City Attorney office and the local District Attorney
   office to express our concern and our demand that justice be served.  This
   has to be done on a community basis, not as individual effort.  Therefore,
   we need to organize ourselves on this action.

Please, all SCV netters!!!!!!!!  It's time to do something more constructive
and more meaningfull.  Let's start now.  Our countryman was chased down,
beaten, and killed like an aminal out there!!!


Please post your comments and suggestions.

Best regards,

Tru+o+ng Nguye^n Anh Tua^'n




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