The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 04, 1989, New Student Edition, Page 2A, Image 2
Students angry
about killings
By RON BAKER and MARY PEARSON
Staff writers
More than 200 USC and Clemson University
students participated in a demonstration against
the violence in their homeland at the state's capitol
June 6.
Students from mainland China, Hong Kong and
Taiwan were present at the demonstration, which
was one of three that week by Chinese students and
others who said they are angry and sad about the
Chinese government's brutal crackdown of June 3
ana 4 on siuaenis in Beijing wno were aemanaing
reform and democracy.
The students were generally quiet, listening attentively
to speakers, including many Chinese
students, as well as South Carolina Lt. Gov. Nick
Theodore and other state government
representatives.
There were a few emotional outbursts of tears
and desperate pleas from the protesters against the
tyranny in China, but the few police officers sent to
oversee the protest mostly stood inconspicuously
near the State House steps looking uncomfortable
and out of place.
One demonstrator took the microphone and urged
the students to hold back their tears and hide
their anger, and to look at the work before them in
bringing democracy to China.
Students present at the demonstration carried
signs in both Chinese and English which held such
slogans as "Our Fallen Heroes Are Immortal."
Another sign asserted that Chinese Premier Li
Peng and President Yang Shangkun should "go to
tieu.
A division of the 27th Army, the branch of the
People's Liberation Army that attacked the
students in and around Tiananmen Square, is controlled
by a relative of Yang.
Yet another sign equated the Chinese Communist
Party with Nazis, drawing a parallel betStfofr
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Students were led by one speaker to chant, in
Chinese and English, "Free the country! Long live ;
democracy! Stop the bloodshed! Long live
freedom!" j
Speakers often compared the present unrest in '
China to the American Revolution. S.C. Rep. Tim
Rogers, D-Richland County, tried to show
Americans' solidarity with the demonstrators: ]
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around their television sets everyday listening to all <
news about the turmoil in their homeland since the !
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since this began," said a comparative literature
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More than 150 students marched at the capitol
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A Chinese graduate student said the Chinese
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:ommittee is raising money for the families in
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By RON BAKER
News editor
Two new bills in the U.S. Congress
promise to delay the return home for
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whose visas expire soon.
The bills, sponsored by Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Alan
Dixon, D-Ill., seek to waive the requirement
that Chinese students
return to China for at least two years
after their visas expire.
A Chinese national studying at
USC consented to talk with The
Gamecock as long as his identity is
not revealed. He chose to be called by
the common Chinese name "Wong."
"It is very dangerbus to go back to
China now," Wong said. He believes
that more people have been arrested
and killed in China because of their
involvement in pro-democracy
demonstrations than the government
has revealed.
"There is no trial; there is no
justice," Wong said. "They just kill
you."
But Wong is also concerned about
the consequences of not returning to
China when his visa expires. "If we
apply for political asylum, whether
we get it or not, our families will suffer.
They will lose their jobs. If we
are talking about an extreme case,
like the Cultural Revolution, they
will die," he said.
Chinese students know the Chinese
government better than American officials
who are making decisions
about when students should return,
Wong said.
"I think we should decide what
time is best for us to go back," he
said.
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of an old joke among the people of
China that the official state
newspapers should be read upsidedown
for accuracy.
Wong thinks the requirement that
Chinese students must return to
China is sound in principle, but not
given the present situation.
The Pelosi bill waives that requirement
and maintains the legal status
of Chinese nationals presently in the
U.S.
A June 21 press release from Rep.
Pelosi's office stated, "If a single
Chinese student can stand up to a
tank in Beijing, we should be able to
stand up to bureaucracy in America
to prevent Chinese students from being
sent home to an uncertain
future."
"Now is the time to reduce options
for Chinese students living in the
United States," Pelosi said.
Wong agreed. He said most
Chinese students in the U.S. are studying
math, the sciences, or political
science. "The people in those majors
are badly needed in China," he said.
South Carolina senators and
representatives have indicated their
support of the bills. Rep. John
Spratt, D-S.C., is cosponsoring
Pelosi's bill.
Tom Kahn, spokesman for Spratt,
said Spratt "is very concerned about
the fate of Chinese students who are
studying in the United States,
especially those who have been
politically active working for
freedom and democracy in China."
Wong said he appreciates the help
from the U.S. government. The
Chinese people need economic and
political pressure from Western
governments against the Chinese
government, he said.
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