{"id":11881,"date":"2012-01-04T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-04T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:01:12","slug":"Asian-American-communities-petition-for-justice-of-GI","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11881","title":{"rendered":"Asian American communities petition for justice of GI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Members of New York\u2019s Asian-American communities plan to go to the Pentagon to press for details over the death of Chinese-American soldier Danny Chen. They have strongly urged the US military to launch a thorough investigation into the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Army Private Danny Chen, deployed to southern Afghanistan in August with the 25th Infantry Division, was found dead on Oct. 3rd 2011 in a guard tower from &#8220;an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was the second such incident in the past year, following the suicide of another Chinese-American soldier Harry Lew, who killed himself in April in Afghanistan.<\/strong> Investigators found that Lew was subjected to brutal hazing by his fellow soldiers, three of whom were ordered court-martialed in October.<\/p>\n<p>US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey has since emphasized a &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy for bullying in the armed forces after charges against eight soldiers in connection with the death of Danny Chen.<\/p>\n<p><a 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