Dear American Colleagues and Human Rights Officials,
I have just received from a representative of the Teachers Union of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) a more complete copy of the warning letters sent by Taiwan's Ministry of Education to NCKU president, Kao Chiang over a period of nearly two and a half years warning the university to abide by a legal Ministry ruling. I have enclosed copies in both jpeg and pdf formats.
There were actually ten letters, not eight as I had previously understood. Moreover, the new English-language translations, by a member of the university's Teachers Union, cover more of the Chinese-language text this time so as to give a stronger sense of the university's human rights violations for those who only read English.
I'm sorry for sending a copy of these letters again, but, because of the obduracy and revisionist schemes of the university, either pretending this case never happened or marginalizing what happened as if it were of minimal importance (apparently Taiwan's taekwondo athlete's disqualification is of more importance here), I want to be sure, for the sake of Americans, indeed, of all foreign faculty, who follow me in Taiwan, that this case will not disappear and that there will be a permanent record of the history of human rights violations at National Cheng Kung University should this case never be resolved according to due process of law or international principles of law, as indeed seems to be the aim of the present administration as of the ones before.
Sincerely,
Richard de Canio
formerly, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan
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