Another stupid loser finding out ways to stay in the west. Very good.
May all losers go to the west. May all patriots go to the east. May
all real Chinese live long and prosper.
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:32:29 -0700 (PDT), hochimanh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>April 14, 2008
>
>Chinese Student at Duke U. Hit With Online Attacks for Alleged
>Sympathy for Tibet
>A Chinese student at Duke University has come under attack from fellow
>Chinese students since allegedly taking part in a pro-Tibet
>demonstration on the campus last week, according to The Chronicle, the
>campus newspaper at Duke.
>
>After the protest, the woman began to receive threatening messages
>from Chinese students who felt she had expressed sup****t for the
>independence of Tibet, which has been gripped by ethnic clashes in
>recent weeks. China regards advocates of Tibetan independence as
>people seeking to split the country.
>
>In addition, the student’s personal information, including her name,
>telephone number, and Chinese national identity card number, were
>posted on the Web site of the Duke Chinese Scholars and Students
>Association.
>
>The campus newspaper also re****ted that her photograph and a video of
>her at the rally had been posted on several popular Chinese-language
>Web sites. The student told the newspaper that some messages had
>called for her to be “burned alive with oil.” The student’s name
was
>not revealed in the news re****t, which quoted her as saying she did
>not sup****t Tibetan independence.
>
>She said that she had been informed she was on a Chinese-government
>blacklist and that she was afraid to return home. “If I go back, I
>might end up in jail forever,” she said.
>The rally on the Duke campus took place in the wake of protests in
>Tibet that began peacefully on March 10, the anniversary of a failed
>1959 uprising against Chinese rule. The protests became violent four
>days later, when Tibetans went on a rampage, attacking Chinese shops
>and people.
>
>The online attacks on the student are the latest in a series of
>incidents involving the Tibet issue and Chinese students in the United
>States. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association of the
>University of Wa****ngton sent a letter last week to campus officials
>expressing “serious concern” about a visit to the university by the
>Dalai Lama this week, saying the exiled Tibetan leader’s appearance
>would not “show respect” to China’s “own domestic issues.” They
also
>demanded that the university ensure his visit would raise “no
>political agenda.”
>
>When a film on Tibet was shown at Cornell University last week,
>Chinese students made death threats against the organizers. —Paul
>Mooney
>
>
>
>Duke Student Targeted for Mediating Tibet Protest
>
>Mark Ralston
>
>A neighbor in the Chinese city of Qingdao walks past graffiti saying
>"Kill everyone in the home" and "Kill traitors" painted outside the
>family home of Duke undergraduate Grace Wang. AFP/Getty Images
>
>The Bryant Park Project, April 21, 2008 ? Duke University
>undergraduate Grace Wang attempted to mediate a heated interchange on
>campus two weeks ago over the Tibetan independence movement. After
>fierce denunciations of Wang by ethnic Chinese in the U.S. and in
>China, her parents in China have been forced into hiding. Wang says
>she is proud of her actions and is angered by threats her family has
>received.
>
>Wang stresses that she doesn't sup****t Tibetan independence; she just
>wanted to intervene when she saw a crowd of 400 to 500 people — mostly
>Chinese citizens — squaring off against 12 pro-Tibet protesters. She
>even gamely wrote "Free Tibet, Save Tibet" on one student's back in an
>agreement brokered on the fly to get him to talk to some of the pro-
>China demonstrators.
>
>She says the phrase "Free Tibet" can mean a lot of things, but to her,
>the heart of the Tibetan problem involves access to education for
>children. "Tibetans don't enjoy the same freedoms that the Han Chinese
>would enjoy," she says. "Tibetan children don't have the equal amount
>of op****tunity."
>
>Within a day of Wang's attempt to referee the protest, word got back
>to China and Wang became the focus of vicious attacks on the Web. In
>an image posted the next day on a popular Internet ****tal, Wang
>appeared with the word "traitor" written on her face. "I was very
>shocked," she says. "I almost had a heart attack."
>
>Since the protest began to make headlines, Wang has struggled to stay
>in touch with her parents, who went into hiding following threats that
>were painted on the family's apartment in the Chinese city of
>Qingdao.
>
>"I try to e-mail them," she says. "Whatever way I use to contact my
>parents, the Chinese government is going to censor anyways. ... I try
>to talk about something else while referring to their safety."
>
>Wang says she has tried to ask her parents if they want political
>asylum. She says they have responded by stressing that they are
>Chinese and shouldn't betray their country — nor should she, they say.
>Wang isn't sure those are really her parents' words, but she is pretty
>sure of one thing: "I don't think they want to leave," she says. "They
>love China just as much as I do."
>
>On the Duke campus, at least, Wang feels safe. "I know what I'm doing
>is right," she says. "I have more friends than people who are
>condemning me."
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