"No one may speak for the dead; no one may interpret their dreams and visions. I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if , we are guilty, we are accomplices..."

- Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Laureat

Dear Friend:

The Chinese Solidarity Campaign endorses and supports Wang Dan's GLOBAL PETITION CAMPAIGN for the 10th Anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre. We urge you to do the same by signing the petition below, and forwarding this e-mail to your contacts, urging them to do the same.

You can sign this petition in one of two ways:

1) go to campaign Web site at: http://www.june4.org and sign on the Web petition;

2) append your name/city/country to this e-mail and forward it to: petition@june4.org

If you wish to obtain hard copies of the petition, you can send an Email to Lamjabez@June4.org or write to the Chinese Solidarity Campaign at 53 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1BL. We intend to collect all signatories by 30th May 1999.

Jabez Lam, Chinese Solidarity Campaign Global Petition Campaign UK co-ordinator

GLOBAL PETITION CAMPAIGN

To: President Jiang Zemin, People's Republic of China

cc:

- His Excellency Kofi A. Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations

- Her Excellency Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

We, the signatories of this petition, call on the Chinese Government to:

1) re-evaluate the official verdict on the June 4th, 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests and bring to justice those responsible for the human rights violations committed;

2) release all prisoners of conscience including those still in prison for their 1989 pro-democracy activities and review the cases of all political prisoners;

3) put an immediate end to harassment, detention and imprisonment of Chinese citizens exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of religion;

4) demonstrate a willingness to respect the rights of all Chinese citizens by proceeding quickly to ratification and implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and theInternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

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