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Camps trade accusations over shooting incident

The pan-blue camp yesterday condemned the pan-green camp for blaming the March 19 shooting incident on pan-blue supporters while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said it was still too early to decide whether the incident was politically motivated or not.

The disputes surrounding the incident surged again as forensics expert Henry Lee (李昌鈺) released his investigation report two days ago, which declared that the shooting incident was not "politically motivated."

"Lee's judgment shows that the incident was not a political assassination attempt, and the pan-green camp's earlier declaration that the incident was planned by the pan-blue camp and China together cannot sustain any longer," Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Huang Teh-fu (黃德福) said.

"And if the shooting incident was not done by the pan-blue camp, it had to be a political maneuver by the other camp," Huang said.

Huang also urged the DPP not to prevent the investigative committee from being established and said it should begin immediately to allow the facts about the incident to come to light as soon as possible.

The People First Party (PFP) caucus also said that Lee's statement that the incident was not politically motivated proved that the shooting was not set up by the pan-blue camp.

"If there is no other motive for the crime, maybe it was done by someone in the pan-green camp itself?" PFP caucus whip Liu Wen-hsiung (劉文雄) said.

But the DPP frowned at Lee's conclusion and said it was too early to dismiss the possibility that the shooting was politically motivated.

"We should let the evidence speak, but right now, as Lee said, there is a lack of evidence. It is risky to completely exclude the possibility of a political assassination attempt," DPP caucus whip Lee Chun-yee (李俊毅) said.

"Lee's report was not beneficial to the KMT and the PFP, or their chairmen. The pan-blue camp always says that the incident is politically motivated, and Lee's report is a refutation of the pan-blue camp's opinion," Lee Chun-yee said.

He also said that since pan-blue camp's investigative committee was intended to uncover political influence behind the shooting, then there was no need for the committee's existence, now that Henry Lee's report indicated the incident was not politically motivated. The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) caucus also supported Lee Chun-yee's view, and said Henry Lee's statement was inappropriate.

"Lee's exclusion of political influence behind the shooting was something that the evidence does not demonstrate," TSU caucus whip Chen Chien-ming (陳建銘) said.

"Henry Lee should not rush to conclusions. Politicians and the public should also refrain from rushing from making conclusion of their own and thus creating more tension," Chen said.

Presidential Deputy Secretary-General James Huang (黃志芳) said that the president would respect Lee's report, and it would become a reference for further investigation.
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