Forensics expert Henry Lee (李昌鈺) said his report on the shooting of President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) will not be completed before Chen is sworn in for a second term on May 20, a local newspaper said yesterday.
Lee said it would be one or two months at the earliest before the forensics report on the shooting could be released.
"Many tests have not been made and results are not out, so naturally there is no outcome now," Lee said, speaking from the US.
"President Chen's shooting is in many ways similar to the assassination of [former] US president John F. Kennedy. When Congress asked me in 1992 to review the Kennedy assassination, I met many difficulties because the crime scene had not been well preserved and there was only some evidence. If all the evidence had been preserved and analyzed with modern technology, they could have helped answer some questions," Lee said.
Lee visited Taiwan from April 9 to April 11 to investigate the March 19 shooting of Chen and Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) in which both received minor injuries.
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Lien has filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify the election and to hold a new poll. The High Court has agreed to allow a vote recount but has not set a date.
Every weekend since March 20, supporters of the pan-blue camp have been rallying outside the Presidential Office to demand a recount and a probe into the shooting. The protests have been losing momentum, however, as the court case and investigation of the shooting may drag on for months or even years.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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