"An eye for an eye," members of the New Party chanted after the bloody confrontation at the CKS International Airport on Tuesday. This is what I read this morning; it pained my heart. I wanted to ask these Chinese, "Haven't we become blood relatives and friends after you have been here for 60 years now? Unless you are only working as `foreign agents' for a foreign country bent on enslaving the native people."
I still remember the day when my beloved elder brother, a music student, was executed in the name of "anti-communism" on Aug. 24, 1952, when my mother received her son with three bullets in his body. What could a young man or woman have done that is so threatening to a state for his mother to deserve such suffering?
In my desperate search for a peaceful solution to this never-ending tragedy, I respectfully ask all of the Chinese in Taiwan to please read the book World on Fire by Amy Chau, professor of law at Yale University, and see how historically you have been looked at in Southeast Asia. How I wish that you and your children would be welcomed at every corner of this earth.
Thomas Liu
California
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