+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ===================== Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP) ===================== April 3, 1990 (Special Issue) Dear friends: Many of you must have learned the great news that Chai Ling and her husband Feng Chog De have arrived at safe place after being chased for ten months since Beijing Massacre in June 4 of 1989, here are two pieces of news to supplemet to your local TV/Radio stations' reports. Bo Xiong in Chicago, U.S.A. for CND-EP ---------------------------- Table of Contents --------------------------- No. Subject # of Lines 1. Chai Ling on TV: "I am now safe and sound"...........................25 2. "...The road to freedom is really too hard and too long" --- More News about Chai Ling........................................35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** To contact CND-EP, see the table at the end of this news package **** 1. Chai Ling on TV: "I am now safe and sound" ====================================================================(25 lines) >From: yawei@ucs.indiana.edu (mr. yawei) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 90 20:35:32 EST Source: soc.culture.china AP News HONG KONG - Chai Ling, one of the student leaders of last year's pro-democracy movement in Beijing, made a television appearance Tuesday to announce her escape to the West after 10 months as a fugitive in China. ''I am now safe and sound,'' said Chai in a near whisper. Her husband, Feng Congde, sat by her side covering his face as he wept. ''Please put your minds to rest.'' The dissident couple were on a wanted list of 21 students accused by the Chinese Communist authorities of leading the Tiananmen Square protests last spring. The protests ended June 4 in a bloody crackdown by troops that left hundreds dead. China officially labeled the protests a ''counterrevolutionary rebellion'' and arrested several of the student leaders. Chai, who was nominated for the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian legislators, immediately went underground after the suppression and in a taped message smuggled out of China told of the military assault on the protesters. There had been no confirmed word on her whereabouts since. Television Broadcasts Ltd. did not say where the interview was taped, but two reliable sources said Chai, 23, arrived in France this week after fleeing China. ============================================================================= 2. "... The road to freedom is really too hard and too long" --- More News about Chai Ling ====================================================================(35 lines) >From: mok@hdsrus.enet.dec.com Date: 3 Apr 90 15:26:03 GMT Source: soc.culture.china (Full from UPI) TAIPEI, Taiwan (UPI) -- Chinese student movement leader Chai Ling and her husband have escaped to Europe after living in hiding in China for 10 months, the China Times said in a report Tuesday from Hong Kong. Chai, one of the three key leaders of the pro-democracy student movement in China, arrived in Europe Sunday with her husband Feng Cong-de, 22, the mass-circulation daily said. ``Freedom is so good, but the road to freedom is really too hard and too long,'' Chai was quoted as saying from Europe. ``In the end, we will attain freedom with the loving assistance of God and brave and kind people.'' Chai has been hospitalized in an undisclosed location after a grueling journey with her husband to escape Chinese authorities, who had put the couple on a new wanted list of dissidents last November, the Times said. The semi-official Free China Relief Association, which aids Chinese dissidents, was unable to confirm the Times' report. The student leader disappeared after the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in Beijing June 3-4. Of the movement's three main leaders, she was the only one whose whereabouts remained unknown. Wuerkaixi escaped to the West via the ``underground railroad'' through Hong Kong, while Wang Tan was captured by police a month after the crackdown. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of students and civilians were killed in the military suppression of the pro-democracy movement. Following the crackdown, the government began massive arrests of student leaders and other dissidents. The Times said Chai most likely took a different escape route than the ``underground railroad,'' which has reportedly been infiltrated by the central government. Chai was expected to make a public appeareance Thursday to support planned protest activity in Beijing to mark the pro-democracy movement, which began about a year ago this time. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Editor/Sender of this Issue: Bo Xiong at Chicago, U. S. A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Last CND-EP news package sent out on March 31, 1990 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | To subscribe/unsubscribe, send contribution/comment and report problem, | | send e-mail to: | | yawei@silver.ucs.indiana.edu OR gxu@kentvm.bitnet | | OR iuvax!silver!yawei@uunet.uu.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+