Bo Chi <chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca> (02/04/91)
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February 4, 1991
Table of Contents
1. Salutation from Australia on Jiye Mao's China Trip
2. FCSSC Started Collecting Cases of Family Reunion Problems
3. FCSSC Calls Students' Attention on Safe Driving
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1. Salutation from Australia on Jiye Mao's China Trip
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From: gaojeng@fac5.anu.edu.au
To: dongqing_wei@mtsg.ubc.ca
Hi, Dongqing,
Well done! Mao Jiye's trip to China is positive in every sense, whatever
the result. You people have done a marvelous job. Forgive me for sending
this so late, for the computer was down for some time.
Best regards.
-J. Gao
National Union of Chinese Students and Scholars in Australia
Federation for a Democratic China (Canberra)
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2. FCSSC Started Collecting Cases of Family Reunion Problems
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Recently, there have been a number of cases that students' spouses
were refused to issue visitor's visas by the Canadian Embassy in Beijing.
The principal reason for these refusals was the failure of the students
in their PR applications in Canada. While the FCSSC asks the relavant
students to please understand its inability to change the Canadian
immigration law regarding PR applications on H&C grounds, it is willing
to try its best to help those students with family reunion problems.
The first step in tackling this problem is to collect enough cases
in this category. Then the FCSSC will bring this matter formally to the
pertinent department(s) of the Canadian government. To expedite the
solution of this problem, those who are in such a situation please forward
your name and a brief description of your problem to
zcai@sirius.uvic.ca
And FCSSC will do its share as soon as possible.
Please be assured that your problem is also our problem.
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3. FCSSC Calls Students' Attention on Safe Driving
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Mr. Hu Xingmin, a Chinese student who have been in Canada for only
a year and four months, was killed in a car accident in Calgary recently.
Another student of York University lost his life while attending a
international conference in Italy.
Many more overseas Chinese students and scholars have been killed or
injured to various degrees in car accidents in the most recent months.
Most of these accidents, as shown by statistics, happened because of
the faults of our students and scholars. It seems that we Chinese students
who came from a country where rule of laws is not observed tend to ignore
the laws of our residing country as well. Many of us drive without the
consciousness of stopping at stop signs and slow down at places where we
are supposed to.
The FCSSC urges each and every one of our Chinese students and scholars
take it seriously and to pay due respect to the traffic laws (and any laws,
for this matter) of the countries we reside in. Your life is worth much more
than a few seconds of being ahead.
The FCSSC regrets the tragedy happened to our national, Mr. Hu Xingmin,
and would like to pay condolence to his family. And FCSSC is now reposting
the message the victim's friend, Sulin Di, posted earlier through this
network and call students and scholars to donate a fews dollars for this
matter to show your sympathy to the victim's family. Thank you.
The detailed message of this accident is as follows:
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From: USERDISU@UALTAMTS.BITNET
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Dear Friends,
I am very sorry to inform you that my former colleague, Mr.
Hu, Xingmin died of a traffic accident. Hu was graduated
from Dept. of Mathematics, Nnajing Institute of Technology
(Southeast University now) in 1981. He was survived by his
son of five years of age and his mother of seventy. He was
divorced just before he came to Canada 16 months ago. Wu's
former wife married again now and their son is Wu's legal
dependant, who is in China and is applying immigration
visa in Beijing right now.
Hu was riding in his friend's car and his friend was running
a red light in downtown Calgary. He died one hour later in
hospital and his friend was seriously injoured and
recovering now. Hu was part time student in University of
Calgary and living on government loan for almost six
months before the tragedy.
We have difficulty to inform the terrible news to his
direct relative because they are all living in a remote
countryside of China. Also because his mother was too weak
to hear the news and his only brother was in Beijing with
his son and out of touch now.
The insurance company offered the funeral fee and $5000.
compensation for his son. Mr. Xie Hong, Wu's former classmate,
and I are very angry about the matter and we decided
to ask Hu's brother and son to come over Canada to take legal
action against the driver and demand reasonable compensation
from the insurance company.
Hu's body is still in the hospital now and everything is
in pending (waiting for his direct relative to come over).
His body will be likely still there for another eight weeks.
Xie, Hong and I ask all Chinese students, our friends and
people who believe in the Justice to pay mercy to Hu, Xingmin
and his family. We ask you to donate for this matter,
and the donations will help us to pay lawyer, other legal fees,
and to give Hu's survivers.
The donation can be send to:
Sulin Di & Hong Xie
(Donation for Wu, Xiangmin)
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Alberta
CANADA T6G 2G1
Our home phone numbers are: (403) 436-3209 (Di),
(403) 433-1936 (Xie).
Thank you very much for your reading. Please help us to make
forward this message to your friends too, for the sake of
Hu, Xingmin and the Justice.
Sincerely Yours,
Sulin Di.
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== Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese)
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FCSSC Formally Congratulates Guelph CSSA
on Its Successful Reestablishment
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Note: As has been formerly reported by the Press Freedom Herald, the
Chinese Students' and Scholars' Association of Guelph University has
gone through many hardships due to various reasons, including the
threat and interference from the Toronto Consulate of PRC. FCSSC
Executive Committee hereby formally congratulates the new birth of
the Guelph CSSA with the hope that this new term of CSSA will progress
steadily, successfully and smoothly. We also demand that no futher
external interference be inflicted upon this, or any other, CSSA.
Executive Committee
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The Letter:
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Executive Committee
Federation of CSSC
January 31, 1991
Executives and All Students
Chinese Students and Scholars
Association of Guelph University
Dear Executives and All Chinese Students
and Scholars of CSSA of Guelph University,
Hello!
We are gratified to learn that the Chinese Students' and Scholars'
Association (CSSA) of Guelph University has recently been reestablished.
In such moments, the Executive Committee of Federation of Chinese
Students and Scholars in Canada (FCSSC) would like to extend its most
sincere congratulations to you and warmly welcome you to join the FCSSC
as unanimously adopted by your general meeting!
Ever since the occurrence of the June 4 event, your CSSA of Guelph
University has gone through many twists and turns due to various reasons.
While deeply regretting what had happened in the past, we had always
believed that you Chinese students and scholars at Guelph University
would certainly one day spontaneously reorganize yourselves to protect your
own rights and interests. Today, you have proved this belief to the public
by your own practice, of which all the ten thousand overseas Chinese students
are proud.
We can imagine that it must have taken tremendous courage to break
all the perceivable barriers to stand up in an environment as complicated
as is at Guelph. That you new executives have been successfully elected
has not only demonstrated your courage, your sacrifice spirit and your
sense of responsibility to serve the students, but also shown fully the
trust that the students place in you. It has revealed that people are
convinced that you can represent their interests, serve them well and also
lead them to make positive contributions to the causes of the modernization
and democratization of our country.
The success of this democratic election at Guelph has also shown amply
the importance of solidarity of Chinese students in safeguarding your own
interests in the unusual situation after the June 4 event. We hope students
at large at Guelph University will reflect seriously on your past experience
and make concerted efforts to support the various kinds of work of your
CSSA executives'.
Now you have firmly made the most crucial step. The FCSSC Executive
Committee wants to reassure you that FCSSC will keep close contacts, and
cordially cooperate, with you and give whatever support and help you may
need in the days aheadd. Let us go forward hand in hand and make our
greatest efforts to serve the students and to concern ourselves with affairs
of our motherland.
We wish you every success!
Sincerely,
Executive Committee
Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada
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== Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese)
------------------------------------------------------------Bo Chi <chi@vlsi> (02/13/91)
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1. Best Wishes for a Happy Chinese New Year from FCSSC
2. Chinese Diplomats Comment on Trials at Home
3. FCSSC and Readers' Comments on Drake's viewpoints
4. Slow Changes Coming to China, Diplomat Says
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1. Best Wishes for a Happy Chinese New Year
From: FCSSC Executive Committee
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Hello! Dear Fellow Students and Scholars,
In a few days time, it will be our traditional Chinese New Year!
On this festive occasion, we would like to extend our most cordial
congratulations to each and every one of you. We wish you a happy and
safe New Year and every success in your future endeavors!
On this annual occasion, we would like to thank all of you for your
valuable support of our work in the past year. Without that, our work
would have been very difficult. May our good cooperation continue for
ever!
On this special occasion, we would also like to remind you of those
at home who are unable to have a happy New Year as we are here. Please
pay a few moments of your mind at the New Year time to those agonized,
to our people and our nation.
Once again, Happy New Year and Great Fortune
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2. Chinese Diplomats Comment on Trials at Home
From: Liu Dong, IN%"Bing_Wen@carleton.ca"
Ottawa (Feb. 9) -- An official from the Chinese Embassy told
a group of Canadian students on Friday that the Chinese government
has been "very lenient" towards the Chinese students who took part
in the 1989 pro-democracy movement.
"We have released a large number of them. As for the small
number who were tried, the trials are open," Mr.Yang Jinshen, first
secretary of the Chinese Embassy, told the Carleton University's
World Affairs Club.
The club is going to take part in a mock United Nations debate
at Princeton University next Thursday. About 40 universities from
North America will take part in this annual event. Each university
will represent one country. This year, it is Carleton's turn to
represent China. Mr. Yang and a military attache, identified
himself as Colonel Yu, were invited to brief on China and its
foreign policy.
Responding to the question of alleged human rights abuses,
Mr.Yang told the group that only a very small number of those who
breached laws were arrested. "And our sentences have been very
lenient, only two to seven years," Mr.Yang said. "Besides, we have
different social values," he added.
Mr. Yang emphasized the openness of the trials. "Many took
part in the trials, including their family members, friends and
teachers. All are carried out strictly according to Chinese laws."
Then he was asked to comment on Mr. Jiye Mao's trip to observe
the trials. The question was: since the trials were open, why did
the Chinese government refuse a Chinese student to return to his
own country to observe them?
The atmosphere of the meeting instantly became tense. With his
head half bending forward, Mr.Yang said: "First of all, Chinese
students studying abroad, I'm not sure whether they know what
happened during the June Fourth in 1989. No government in the world
would tolerate activities aiming at overthrowing it. Secondly,
Chinese students here took part in many anti-government activities
during that period of time. We are very lenient to them. We would
not punish those who went back."
When asked whether he meant that Mr.Mao's trip was an anti-
government activity, Mr.Yang promptly answered: "I would not say
his trip was anti-government. But a lot of the activities here are
anti-government."
To conclude on that subject and to drive his point home,
Mr.Yang challenged the audience with this remark: "China needs
stability. If what happened in Eastern Europe happens in China
which has 1.13 billion people, even if the exodus is only one
percent of the population, no country will accept it."
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3. FCSSC and Readers' Comments on Drake's Viewpoints
On Monday, February 4, Vancouver Sun carried an article by
its reporter Moira Farrow on an interview with Earl Drake, former
Canadian ambassador to China. Mr. Drake offered, as reported by
Farrow, a number of professional viewpoints on China's future and
present. He also made some comments on the recent Canadian immigration
policy towards students.
FCSSC appreciates Mr. Drake's concern about and good will
toward China. Nevertheless, it does not share Mr. Drake's views
on Canada's special immigration measures towards Chinese students
after the June 4 massacre.
FCSSC believes that the special immigration measures towards
Chinese students were indeed necessary and very humanitarian and
compassionate. The measures have proven very effective in
protecting the Chinese students and their families from their
government's persecution and harrassment, and also in alleviating
Chinese students' deep fear and, therefore, helping them study
normally in Canada. In addition, the fact that thousands of Chinese
students have obtained Canada's protection and chosen to stay in
Canada before they are convinced of safe returns has contributed to
the ``slow changes" in China Mr. Drake referred to in his interview
by the Vancouver Sun.
FCSSC and its thousands of members are grateful to Canada's
humanitarian considerations. We believe many of us will go back to
serve China once we are certain that political persecution will no
longer be encountered.
Since Mr. Drake is now an individual researcher and not
representing the Canadian government at the present time, it would
be improper to direct our response to the External Affairs Ministry.
The attempt made by Dr. Dongqing Wei, President of FCSSC, to
clarify this matter through the Vancouver Sun failed due to the lack
of ``man-bites-dogs" effects.
Attached are some of the readers' comments on this matter.
Further comments are welcome. Please forward your points of views
to china-can@ccu.umanitoba.ca.
Executive Committee
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From: IN%"aaa@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA, student in McMaster Univ."
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After reading Mr. Drake's whole comments, I feel that he is a
honest and responsible person whom I always respect. I think what
he said was true and was for the best interests of China. If we
just think of our own interests, we can respond and argue. But if
we consider China's future, we shouldn't. If we have to respond, be
honest and be objective.
From: IN%"bbb@AC.DAL.CA, Student in Dal. Univ."
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I think it is necessary to react to the comments from Mr. Drake.
He made two points in his remarks: (1) that so many Chinese students
have decided to stay in Canada is a big brain-drain to China; and
(2) the special PR program has encouraged the Chinese students' PR
applications which are believed by Mr. Drake as more of economic
than political reasons.
I do agree with the first point. Yet, I found the second issue
which Mr. Drake has raised is most disturbing and deserves a response,
given the fact that he is a high-rank official in the Department of
External Affairs. His remarks depicting Chinese students who have
applied PR status as "economic refugees" are highly inappropriate
and demonstrate the lack of basic understanding, as an ambassador
to China, of the political situation in China where the students
who participated in the democratic movement of 1989 are being put
on trial. Remember that this is not an isolated incident-- there
have been many instances where the necessity of the special PR
program has been questioned and the Chinese students who applied PR
have been explicitly or implicitly described as "economic refugees".
From: IN%"ccc@ubcmtsg.bitnet Student in UBC"
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I think 1). Mr. Drake has good will for China, and his intention
is in the best interest of China; 2). It is true that there are many PR
applicants are NOTHING BUT ECONOMIC REFUGEES. (We should be honest.)
Any counter-argument without recognizing these facts are deemed to
be on very shaky grounds, and hard to be convincing.
However, it does not necessary mean the special PR program bad or
unnecessary. The massive applications in fact was a strike on the CCP at
the time the brutality of the regime needed to be condemned by all means.
Secondly, it did provide maximum protection for those who really
faced persecution should they had been forced back.
Finally, it is clear that Chinese students have to keep their mouth
shut and facing political suppression if not persecution, if they go back
now, given the situation in China.
There are always free-riders to take advantage of any policy. The
merit of the policy should not be judged based on the fact that there
are free-riders.
Frankly, I belive that policy was made based on economic (gains to
Canada) motivation as well as humanitarian considerations. It is naive to
assume Canadian government did this only to protect the majority of Chinese
students. (They knew as well as we knew that many of them had no danger in
China.)
My point is we should be honest and appreciate Mr. Drake's concern
for China. Otherwise, we will be looked down upon.
From: ddd@AC.DAL.CA, student in Dal. Univ.
Subject: People Tend to Forget, Very Easily!
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I urge people to recall what it was like immediately after the June 4
of 1989. Many were rounded up and heavily beaten as we had seen on TV.
Those who demonstrated in Canada were also being video-taped or reported
by informants. This was when the special PR program was established and
most of the Chinese students here decided to apply for protection. Was
the special PR program necessary? Had those who applied for PR made the
decision based on economic reasons? It seems to me that people tend to
forget, very easily.
Most of the activists are now being tried in China. Jiye was not
allowed to enter. I asked myself why the police knew the working units
of Jiye's parents. Was it because Jiye was "registered" in the State
Security Bureau? Is it really safe now for us to return without getting
any trouble?
This incident reminds me of a bizzare story I heard. One of the
students who came to Canada after June 4 of 1989 said that "of course
you guys demonstrated and made as much noise as you could, you wanted to
stay here." The demonstrations were before the PR program was announced.
So, did we really demonstrate for the PR program? What a nonsense!
Mr. Drake's remarks are not his own, indeed. He is reading our minds.
We are not defending what I believe is of principle. Instead, we can only
see the "interests". We are not doing a good job explaining things, but
slapping our own face. What a pity!
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4. Slow Changes Coming to China, Diplomat Says
By Moira Farrow, The Vancouver Sun, Monday, February 4
Change is coming to China but it will be slow, undramatic and
totally unlike that in Eastern Europe, says Earl Drake, Canada's former
ambassador to China.
"The movement for democracy is strong in Beijing but there's little
strong support in the countryside where two-thirds of the population
live," said Drake in a recent Vancouver interview.
"Country dwellers in China have never been so prosperous before and
they show every sign of being quite content. But intellectuals in China
want change and so does the younger, educated generation."
Drake, a career diplomat who has served in many countries including
Malaysia, Pakistan and France, left Beijing last October. He is now on
a year's sabbatical leave from the external affairs department and is
a research associate in the David Lam Centre for International Communi-
cation at Simon Fraser University's Harbor Centre.
He said that when he left, China was quiet and stable on the surface
but "full of tension" underneath.
"There's a waiting period now, everyone is waiting for the elderly
leaders who are in their 80s to die and then there may be policy changes,"
said Drake.
"The old leaders are out of touch but those who want reform don't
want to drastic change, they are calling for an end to corruption and
more democracy within the Communist party. This is not like Eastern
Europe."
He said China has no tradition of democracy and there is no alternative
government waiting in the wings as there was, for example, in Poland.
Commenting on the recent trials of student leaders who took part in
the 1989 pro-democracy movement, Drake said he would not be surprised if
the Chinese government deliberately scheduled them for a time when the
world's attention was focused on the Middle East.
"But it's bad public relations," he said. "However, I am glad to see
the trials happening at last and I'm encouraged to see that a judicial
process is being used. Many of these people have been without trials since
June 1989 and so far the sentences have been lenient."
Drake warned Canadians must not remain frozen in their "June 1989"
attitudes to China because of the Beijing massacre of that time.
"We have to look at the long term and China is an important country
for Canada," he said. "We must continue our relationship."
He said Canada's policy after June 1989 "almost encouraged" every
Chinese student here to remain permanently and many of them became
"economic refugees."
As a result, he said, China lost thousands of its brighted young
people.
"It was Canada's gain but a terrible loss to China," he said. "Now
that policy of encouraging students to stay here has been corrected.
There are no more special measures for Chinese students here. I do hope
some of them will eventually go back to China because they can do more
for their country there than they can here."
(THE END)
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1. FCSSC Statement
2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started
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1. Statement of Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada
on Chinese Government's Unjust Convictions of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao
February 13, 1991
As it has been reported, the Chinese government has recently
inhumanly sentenced, through secret trials, veteran democracy advocates
and prominent intellectuals Mr. Wang Juntao, who has been suffering from
serious hepatitis, and Mr. Chen Ziming, who had been on hungerstrike,
each to thirteen years of severe imprisonment, after a series of secret
and unjust trials of many participants of the 1989 Chinese Pro-democracy
Movement.
The Federation of Chinese students and Scholars in Canada,
representing its ten thousand members, hereby expresses its greatest
indignation and protest to such totally unjustified trials. We
strongly condemn the Chinese government's repeated practice of human
rights abuse and gross violation of the People's Republic of China
Constitution and criminal laws after the brutal June 4 Masscre.
We firmly believe that Mr. Wang Juntao, Mr. Chen Ziming and
all the other arrested pro-democracy activists are innocent patriots
of China. Their words and deeds not only represent the common will of
the people of China, but also perfectly conform to the Chinese
Constitution. These people should be freed immediately with "no guilty"
convictions. And the Chinese people's lawful rights under the
Constitution must be restored.
The persecution of the participants in the 1989 Pro-democracy
Movement by the Beijing regime in the past months has once again
revealed explicitly its stubbornness of repeatedly violating basic
human rights, breaching the Constitution, defying world opinions, and
openly opposing its own people.
We appeal to peoples and governments in the world to continue to
support the Chinese people's struggle for democracy in many ways and
through various measures and help stop the Chinese government's
suppression to the Chinese people.
We want to reiterate that the Federation of Chinese Students and
Scholars in Canada will stand forever by the Chinese people and make
unremitting efforts for the early achievement of freedom, democracy and
prosperity in China.
Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada
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2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started
As is the concensus of the Executive Committee, FCSSC President
Dongqing Wei has recently approved a proposal of establishing a database
of information concerning the "6.4" prisoners of conscience made by Liu,
Xiufeng of the FCSSC Strategy and Theory Studies Department.
Below is the proposal made by Liu, Xiufeng as introduced by Haosheng
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Department of Strategy & Theory Studies
The Federation of Chinese Students & Scholars in Canada
A Proposal for Data Base of June-4th Prisoners
Time to time, we found lack of sources when the references for
June-4th prisoners are in need. Due to lack of manpower, such
d-base plan was proposed but never implemented.
Now the DSTS finally found someone who is willing to pursue the
matter. Liu, Xiufeng, a student at UBC drafted the following
proposal. He is very active in HRG with CSSA of UBC. Here I ask
an approval from FCSSC for supporting the plan.
I initiated this from DSTS but if the Human Rights Group of FCSSC
takes over the job, I shall appreciate it.
Haosheng Zhou
Head of DSTS
Cc: Xiufeng Liu
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Title: Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience
Background: After "6.4" massacre in 1989, thousands of
dissidents were arrested and held incommunicado
throughout China in connection with their
participation in 1889's peaceful pro-democracy
movement. Some were reportedly severely beaten or
tortured by soldiers or police. Although some of
them have been released under the pressure from
both domestic and abroad, hundreds of them are
still in prison. Especially, Chinese government
is taking the advantage of gulf crisis and
secretly putting some of them on trial. For
example, Juntao Wang and Ziming Chan have been
charged with " sedition and plotting to overthrow
the government". Similar charges are likely to be
brought against other pro-democracy activitists.
Their fate is in a great uncertainty.
Objectives: This database aims at collecting personal
information for those "6.4" dissidents who are
still in jail so that their personal information
can be used by any person or agency in the
efforts of their early release and freedom.
Rationale: The people included in this database will be
identified based on the statute of Amnesty Inter-
national ( article 1 and 2 ) as this: "every
person has the right freely to hold and to
express his or her convictions and the obligation
to extend a like freedom to others", the
universal declaraton of human rights opposes "the
detention of any prisoners of conscience or any
trial procedures relatives to such prisonsers
that do not conform to internationally recognized
norms".
Sources: 1) official reports published and materials
provided by some well-known international
organizations such as Amnesty International.
This source will be taken as "reliable";
2) internal network such China News Digest. This
source will be taken as "to be confirmed";
3) Chinese newspapers and magnizes such as "Zheng
Ming". This source will be taken as
"uncertain".
Duration: tentatively from Feburary 1 to August 31, 1991.
Personnel: Human Right Group, CSSA at UBC.
Services: News release once a month.
Budget: 1) communication fees (including mails): $75;
2) copy and printing fees: $100;
3) others: $25.
total: $200.
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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
== Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese)
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