Some of the key leaders of Tiananmen Square upheaval have settled well in developed countries, received assistance to pursue higher education and have good careers or businesses. Some of their less fortunate comrades who did not escape had to serve jail sentence.
There are others who may have been spectators, passive supporters or have nothing to do with Tiananmen but claim to be victims. Some of us who know overseas political asylumn seekers and their families who fake their identity and connections just to get a greencard and residency. They only need to claim they have been victims of persecution such as being former student leaders, Falungong members and Tibetans. Some of their claims are likely to be exaggerated as they have every reason to justify sympathy for their plight.
As the following story shows, fraudulent passport syndicates exploit the American or western soft spot for these fake "freedom fighters". Of course there are many fakes who have been granted asylum who were not found out. Friends who have known them for many years would know the truth of their background.
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Tibetan Nun Is A Fake, U.S. Says
The Washington Post
[Thursday, March 24, 2005 23:51]
Woman Accused Of Passport Fraud
Sonam Chodon won the sympathy of human rights advocates and even a U.S. congressman because she said she was a Buddhist nun fleeing persecution in her native China.
Now the government says she was never a nun at all.
In reality, the government says, Chodon is part of a passport fraud ring still under investigation. Federal investigators do not know why she allegedly faked being a nun, but they say the case highlights the potential danger posed by those who may exploit immigration laws, as the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and other terrorists have done.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=9387&t=1&c=1
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