Hi,
I'm too angry to even think about the whole thing. As a chinese living in
Taiwan for 36 years, I really can't understand why things happened this way
to my dearest people. I got a lot of resentment toward the Indonesia
beasts, yes, they are beasts indeed until they could make themselves behave
more like human beings rather than beasts.
But so what to write here? Those beasts can't read nor feel. The Chinese
or Huaren here disscussing to each other simply preach to the preacher. We
know what's right from wrong, we know we should'n behave like Indonesian
because the education we received make it so explicit that a human being
with soul and conscience is different from animal. Again and again, after
all, we are always told not to push too much, but tolerate. We share tears
for those victims, that's what we can do, that's all. Then, things will
pass just like the passed stories, like the masscre and rapes in 1937 in
Nan-king, China by Japanese.
Actually, I still wonder the chinese tolerance (of a lot of sorts of
crimes) is intiatiated from our good nature or just because we are A-Q, the
figure in a famous chinese literature. At this point, I can't tell a sage
from a coward.
Of course, no body can really tell us what to do at this moment. Victims
have already been attacked, or murdered, house were burnt, shops were
crashed. Even the indonesian goverment finally hands out those beasts, I
don't think we know what to do. There shouldn't be a war (ha, who's going
to play the role representing the world-wide chinese?) nor a nationalism
conflict. Some people encourage the chinese-indonesians to join the
politics more aggressively , but in a place where chinese population
accounts only a very minor part , there won't be much chance in my view,
unless through the short cut of bribery or other money-politic way, which
been thought as the backfire behind May riots against chinese.
Fait accompli. Chinese slang says, a man been bitten by a dog should
never bite back. You know, on yesterday's newspaper, China Times Express,
the editorial column said that we shouldn't call the indonesian murderers
"beasts" nor "animal", since beasts and animals could never do those kind
of bloody and mad things, beasts and animals eat human beings because they
are really hungry, they need food. Beasts and animals won't kill or rape
for fun. I quite agree with it. Yes, Indonesians' cruelty and madness got
nothing to do with beasts and animals. That's indonesian.
I need to come to this station to tell you how angry and distressed I
am. Also I need to know that we chinese are here together, not alone, not
too selfish to ignore the pains felt by our people. Tell the anti-chinese
people we are exactly here, though we are not as rich as most western
people nor as japanese, but we are here together.
Terry K