Manifesto
The First Convention
of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
in the US
July 30, 1989, Chicago
We are students and scholars from the People's Republic of
China, residing in all parts of the United States of America.
We love the scientific studies we are engaged in, and we are
determined to become future scientists, artists, engineers,
and experts in various social and humanity sciences. We uphold
the spirit of science and reason. We respect and cherish the
basic human rights. We are committed to the advancement of
civilization, and we seek a peaceful, free, and democratic
society and political system.
The bloody events that occurred on June 4th, 1989, in Beijing,
the capital of China, however, made us painfully aware that
in China, our motherland, science and reason have been decimated,
civilization has been devastated, young buds of peace, liberty
and democracy have been crushed, and the basic rights of the
people have been trampled upon by power and violence.
At this historical moment, we, forty thousand overseas Chinese
students and scholars in the US, having come together in answer
to the call of our conscience and sense of justice, solemnly
declare the founding of the Independent Federation of Chinese
Students and Scholars. We strongly condemn the bloody crackdown
on peaceful civilians by the current Chinese government. We
express profound grieve over the death of our fellow countrymen,
and we express heartfelt sympathy for the families of the
victims. The people's blood shall not be shed in vain. The
day is bound to come when those arch-criminals responsible
for slaying the people are finally tried by history and by
the people!
