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!
中国留美学生学者联合会第一届代表大会宣言
我们是来自中华人民共和国的学生和学者。我们分布在美国各地。我们热爱我们所从事的专业。我们有志于成为未来的科学家、艺术家、工程师和各类社会、人文学科的专家。我们崇尚科学和理性的精神，尊重和保护人类的基本权利。我们致力于社会文明的进步，追求和、自由与民主的社会和政治制度。
但是，一九八九年六月四日在中国首都北京发生的流血事件，使我们痛切地感到：在中国──我们的祖国，科学和理性遭到了亵渎，文明遭到了践踏，和平、自由和民主的萌芽遭到了摧残，人民的基本权利遭到了强权和暴力的蹂躏。
在此历史关头，我们四万中国留美学生和学者受到良知和正义的召唤，走到一起来，庄严宣告中国留美学生学者联合会的成立。我们强烈遣责中国现政权对和平民众的血腥镇压。我们对死难同胞表示沉痛的悼念；对死者和受害者的亲属表示深切的同情。人民的血不会白流，镇压人民的元凶必将受到历史和人民的最后审判。这一天定会来到！
一九八九年七月三十日于芝加哥
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