Date of letter:1995-10-25
Address of author:Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Date of event:Not mentioned
Location of event:Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Name of author:Zhao Bin
Name(s) of victim(s):Zhao Bin
Type of atrocity:Nanking Massacre (NM)
Other details:This year (1995), a film named The Nanjing Massacre contains about 5-7 min shots of me describing my experience. My history as a victim of the Massacre is also published on newspaper.
Respectable Mr. Tong:
How have you been?
I haven’t corresponded with you for 3 years. How is your work and heath? As a civilian victim, I am sending my regardful caring about you! Please also extend my regards to Mr. Li Dingguo. Regarding the Nanjing matter, I’ve heard something about you two from Li Yun. I believe a just cause will succeed in the end.
In this August, I appeared for 5-7 minutes in the episode Unhealed Scar of the documentary film series Nanjing Massacre co-produced by Jiangsu and Nanjing TV stations. The series is very successful. It has been used by the State Council Information Office as one of the primary foreign publicity films of our embassies in other countries and will be shown in cities such as Nanjing in mid-December. It occurs to me that the blockbuster effect of the film will be beneficial to our “claim for compensation” campaign. Besides, my past experience as a victim was also published in Economic Daily of Hong Kong on this August 11. Mr. Li Yun has sent you a copy of the newspaper. I wonder whether you’ve received it. Regarding the “claims for compensation” campaign, the victims across the country need your guidance. Hopefully we can correspond more with each other in the future.
Yours faithfully,
Victim Zhao Bin
October 25, 1995
