The March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee announced yesterday that it will list 10 major questions on the March 19 assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and post them on its Web site.
Committee chairman Shih Chi-yang (
"We are proposing questions instead of coming up with any conclusion," said committee spokeswoman Wang Ching-feng (王清峰).
Wang said the committee is only proposing the 10 questions after its members reviewed the evidence and statements they collected from law-enforcement agencies and officials, as well as witnesses.
"This is going to be a rough report and a brief of our work over the past two months," she said.
According to Wang, the 10 questions include: Was there a second shot, why did the president's wound look like a knife wound, was the tissue sample from the president's wound contaminated and where did the bullets came from?
Wang said that the information would be posted on its Web site (www.the319.org) soon but at press time yesterday it was still not available.
Wang said that law-enforcement agencies had not been very cooperative with the committee whenever the committee members had visited them or summoned them for questioning.
As required by the 319 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Commission Statute, the committee members will brief lawmakers and Control Yuan members on their investigation next month.
Meanwhile, Shih Chi-yang (
Shih said that the commission is empowered to borrow prosecutors from the Ministry of Justice but since the ministry brushed aside its request, the commission decided to fine Chen.
Shih said Su was fined because he had also resisted the commit-tee's investigation.
Wang said the committee had asked 23 government agencies and organizations to provide 52 documents and to answer to 66 questions raised by the committee.
Any government agency which failed to comply can be fined, as stipulated in Article 8 of the commission statute.
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