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By RON BAKER
News editor
A world-renowned physicist and
I, USC professor has refused to attend
a scientific seminar in China because
of recent human rights violations by
the Chinese government.
Physics instructor Jeeva Anandan,
in a July 24 letter to Professor J.Q.
Liang of Shanxi University in Shanxi
Province, China, declined an offer to
attend the International Symposium
on Advanced Topics of Quantum
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place in the summer of 1990.
In the letter, Anandan refused the
offer "because of the massacre at the
Tiananmen Square on June 3 and 4,
1989, and the continuing executions
of the people who participated in the
democracy movement."
"I think it's against my conscience
to participate in any conference in
China," Anandan said Monday. "I
believe that what the Chinese government
has done in sending the troops
which fired on unarmed students and
workers is a serious human rights
violation."
Anandan said the students are
neither criminals nor thugs the way
the government portrays them.
Anandan said he hopes his decision
will encourage others in his position
to follow suit and consider
avoiding ties with the Chinese
government.
"I'm aware that at this point the
Chinese government needs foreign
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Anandan received the award of the
international Gravity Research Foundation
in 1983 for his work on
gravitation and quantum mechanics.
He was also awarded the Humboldt
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given by a German foundation.
In his letter to Shanxi University,
Anandan said that he would reconsider
his position and attend the
seminar if the human rights situation
improved in China.
"I would like them to stop imprisoning
and executing their
dissidents, those who demonstrated
for democracy, and I would want the
government to have a dialogue with
the students, give some concessions
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Anandan compares the unrest in
Beijing with the recent strike by
miners in the Soviet Union.
"When the miners went on strike
in Siberia, their demands were
somewhat similar to the demands of
the Chinese students. Gorbachev, instead
of criticizing the miners and attacking
them, identified himself with
the workers," he said.
"Deng Xiaoping, on the other
hand, sent troops to fire on them."
/\nanaan saia ne regrets mat tne
Beijing protests were not handled like
the Soviet strike.
"If Deng Xiaoping did not agree
with the students, he could have at
least had a dialogue with them and
tried to resolve it peacefully," he
said.
Anandan visited China to attend a
similar symposium in 1982. He
reflects fondly on the visit.
"I enjoyed my visit very much,
because the Chinese people I found
to be very friendly, and I think
perhaps the happiest people in the
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