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To: j-at-home who wrote (297551)	11/11/2004 5:53:10 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Looks she worked too hard and suffered from severe depression --"Investigators concluded that Chang, who was hospitalised recently for a breakdown, shot herself in the head. She had lived in San Jose with her husband and two-year-old son. Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalised during a recent trip researching her fourth book about US soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her former editor and agent Susan Rabiner. Chang continued to suffer from depression after she was released from the hospital. In a note to her family, she asked to be remembered as the person she was before she became ill - "engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family", Rabiner said." smh.com.au

To: j-at-home who wrote (297551)	11/11/2004 6:13:42 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 436258

And here is some conspiracy theory --Mullenax News Columns Iris Chang Suicide? Not So Fast Officials Should Be More Responsible By Rob Tong Thursday 11th of November 2004 03:17 PM MST Iris Chang, a Chinese-American historical author, was found dead Wednesday, November 10, 2004. The initial assessment was that she committed suicide in her car. Here's my initial assessment of that initial assessment. It can be summarized in one word. C'mon. OK, it's a contraction of two words but it's still one word. So a best-selling and critically-acclaimed author whose literary desire was to prevent Chinese history from being rewritten or forgotten would somehow, and all of a sudden, find life too meaningless or difficult to live and thus mysteriously kill herself? C'mon. I've heard more plausible explanations in that 80s cop drama Hunter. Or The Whole Nine Yards, for that matter. I guess the initial assessment that "Bert & Ernie killed the victim" was already used. After frequently reading about bungling by officials...from Jon Benet Ramsey to O.J. Simpson to Kobe Bryant...it's becoming increasingly difficult to trust the professionalism and judgement of such officials. According to AFP News, Chang was found near Highway 17, south of Los Gatos, a Santa Clara County coroner's office official said on condition of anonymity. Chang allegedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after driving herself to an isolated spot near the small town. She was discovered by a motorist who alerted authorities. Officials stressed, however, that no official cause of death had yet been established. But if you're going to stress that, then why bother making a highly dubious initial assessment like the one that they did? Doing so is complete recklessness. If anything, an initial assessment of murder should have been made. Or no assessment at all until further investigation is done. But claiming suicide? It'd be more believable to say that Chang was found trying out for the Zimbabwe football team. What exactly is the point of making such a daring initial assessment? Was someone involved in the murder trying to take initial suspicion off the case? I think so...how's that for an initial assessment? Just last year, Chang released a book entitled "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History," tracing more than 150 years of Asian-American history. Her best-known book was "The Rape Of Nanking", which detailed the brutal slaughter of Chinese civilians by the occupational Imperial Japanese army after its invasion of China in the late 1930s. I can concoct a more reasonable theory than suicide. How about this: someone who despises the material Chang has been releasing wanted her dead. He/she/they kidnapped her, took her to an isolated spot near a small town, shot her, put the gun in her hand to give the impression of suicide, and happily left the scene. Sure, I'm speculating here but that's exactly the point. If you think my theory is off the wall, the same could be argued for this "suicide" speculation. Since there just isn't enough information to make any kind of judgement about the cause of death, none should have been made. You can argue that they have more evidence that I have. Fine. But why, then, if the evidence is so obvious, did those officials say no official cause of death had been established? Since the officials admit the cause of death is still a mystery, they should not have made an initial assessment at all. Yet the Bay Area officials hastily made an ill-advised judgement...one that didn't even make sense. And they will need to answer the criticism that comes with making such a quick judgement. For example, with such a premature judgement of suicide as the initial assessment of Chang's death, conspiracy theorists are free to argue that white officials don't care for minorities. So when minorities die (even celebrities), they try to sweep it away as quietly under the rug as they can. Unfair? Perhaps. But again, that's the point. If officials want to spare themselves any unfair criticism, they should be more professional and prudent in their deliberations and decision-making, lest they leave themselves open to second-guessing and motive-guessing. Chang's presumed killer(s) shouldn't get off the radar so quickly; and neither should those Bay Area officials. richardmullenax.com And in case you read Chinese, here is a Chinese article, speculates that she got depression partly due to her long time investigation of historical crimes by Japanese soldiers in WWII. She was working on a book about how American POWs were tortured by Japanese soldiers in Philippine during the WWII before she died. news.creaders.net