Taiwan's President Chen shot during campaigning
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Taiwan's President Chen shot during campaigning; presidential election to go ahead on Saturday
TAIPEI : Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian was shot in the stomach on Friday during campaigning but is conscious in hospital, a top presidential aide said.
"We confirm that at 1.45pm the president when campaigning in Tainan was shot," presidential secretary general Chiou I-jen told a press conference in Taipei.
He said that Chen was conscious and was being treated in hospital. The bullet has been found, he said.
Chiou said Saturday's presidential election was due to go ahead as planned. He said Vice President Annette Lu had also been injured.
Earlier, a spokesman for Chen's Democratic Progressive Party said the president and vice president had been hit by a firecracker during campaigning.
Chen, 53, and Lu were taken to Chi Mei hospital in Tainan.
However a presidential aide, speaking outside the hospital, said Chen was able to walk into the hospital and was not seriously hurt.
"There is no big problem. The president is fine, only the vice president was helped into the hospital. People should calm down," said the aide, declining to give his name.
DPP spokesman Cheng Wen-tsan said Chen had been hit in the stomach with a firecracker.
However DPP lawmaker Wang Sing-nan, who was with Chen at the hospital, said the president had been shot.
"The bullet hit the ankle of Vice President Annette Lu before hitting Chen Shui-bian's stomach," said Wang.
Both Chen and opposition challenger Lien Chen on Friday spent doing last-minute campaigning in the south of the island ahead of Saturday's presidential election in which the two rivals are reported to be running neck and neck.
The campaign has been long and spiteful, with much acrimony over Chen's plans to hold a referendum vote separate from the presidential poll centred on
relations between the island and mainland China.
The referendum is seen as an attempt by Chen to push the island further down the road towards independence, something China has threatened to oppose by military force.
The referendum has been criticised by France, Japan, Germany, the European Union and, most crucially in a rare rebuke, by its biggest ally, protector and
arms supplier the United States.
The result of the election - and the two-question referendum that runs alongside it - is being closely monitored by China, which still claims the island as part of its territory. - AFP -
I am wondering if the assasination attempt is a show created by him and his party to gain sympathy votes from the people and putting the blame on either mainland China or the opposition party. Most professional killers hired to finish a person off will go for the head. Seems that over here, no attempt is made to finish him.
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im still baffled how the bullet can bounce off the lao auntie's foot then to his stomach
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maybe deflected by bone.Originally posted by FireIce:im still baffled how the bullet can bounce off the lao auntie's foot then to his stomach -
yeah kinda weird, but well, saw on tv he's been discharged already, those bloomberg and barclay guys're pretty concerned abt him...
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Bullets bounce all the time man...Originally posted by HENG@:maybe deflected by bone. -
i still think they got JFK's true assassin to do this
but seriously.. who would gain most from his death? or this publicity of his non-death?Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Bullets bounce all the time man... -
if you want to name the suspects.. these could be a few of them who will want to see him gone.. from all the threats made in the past..Originally posted by the Bear:i still think they got JFK's true assassin to do this
but seriously.. who would gain most from his death? or this publicity of his non-death?
guess who he is threatening..
how come they all have the same posture when talking abt this person...
taking over the job.. but so far, the new guy hasn really lost it over the person..
but can't say the same abt his deputy.. seems like he has had with all the nonsense from across the straits.. -
Who the fella... can't win must shoot.??
How come there is no security guards accompany him?
Like that this election he sure win
Da Nan Bu SI Bi You Huo Fu
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many people, if not then some people would said the shooting of Chen and the VP was done by themselves. But let think who will be so stupid enough to ask a person to kill them then later go to hospital and have 14 STITCHES or what if the shooting go wrong.
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Quite strange enough...the bullet can hurt president chen's skin and flesh, but it was found under his jacket?? the momentum of the bullet that can cause injury can't penetrate the jacket?? maybe its a bullet proof one worn inside out!
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A photo of Ah Bian and his Deputy shot at was splashed on the front page of Lian He Zhao Bao.
And from the look of it, it's amazing that the bullet didn't shatter the windscreen into smithereens and hurt the passengers occupying the front seat. -
i am unpleasantly surprised to know that such thing still happen in such a civilised world...
but, like what others say, i am really buffled by how lucky Ah Bian is...
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bery funny.....from tt angle, the driver shd tio (head somemore) first mah.....
yah....alotta ppl speculated it's Ah Bian's own drama.....to gain tong qing piao.......
we'll see if his "ku rou ji" works tonite......... -
if u have been following Taiwan politics..DPP is in desperate mode now..Originally posted by boy20:many people, if not then some people would said the shooting of Chen and the VP was done by themselves. But let think who will be so stupid enough to ask a person to kill them then later go to hospital and have 14 STITCHES or what if the shooting go wrong.
But, I will not rule out the possibility.
the power they are holding might be lost over nite..n might never come back..
their spiritual leader Lee Teng Hui will be on the run if Chen lost the presidential run..so its a lose lose situation for DPP..
they cannot lose..
when someone is desperate..anything can be done.. -
All the best to Taiwan...
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close fight going on now
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KMT lost..
tough luck for them..