Seung-hui Cho: “I did it for my brothers and sisters”
New York. The neat glasses of the high school picture are gone. The boyish face is gone too. The hair is short, the look angry. In a letter and on videod and pictures sent to NBC news between the two shootings on April 16 at Virginia Tech, Seung-hui Cho, the killer, claims to defend the weak: “I did not have to do, he says on a video broadcast last night by NBC News. I could have left. I could have fled. I did not do it. But no, I will no longer run. It is not for me. For my brothers and sisters that you (expletive). I did it for them” On the different pictures and videos, Seung-hui Cho is at times seen as angry, threatening, dazed. The 23-year old student who grew up in the Washington area compares himself to Jesus Christ. “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience, he says. You thought it was one pathetic boy’s life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people”. “You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today, Mr Cho adds. But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off”. Some pictures depict the student described by Virginia Tech students and faculty members as “shy” and “lonely”, brandishing two weapons. Another shot shows him holding a gun to his temple. The young man had been taken to mental health center in late 2005 because one of his acquaintances feared at the time he was suicidal. In his multimedia manifesto, Mr Cho also rails against rich students: “You had everything you wanted, he says. Your Mercedes wasn’t enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren’t enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn’t enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn’t enough. All your debaucheries weren’t enough. Those weren’t enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything”. The police today described the content of the package as “marginal” for its investigation. The package proves the worst the worst mass killing in modern US history was premeditated and carefully planned. The manifesto was mailed at 9.01 am from the post office in downtown Blacksburg. It was about 1h45 after the first shooting that claimed two victims and about 20 minutes before the second massacre. The police is trying to link Cho to some of the victims of the shootings to try to understand what drove the student to kill. In the manifesto, Mr Cho makes a reference to “martyrs like Eric and Dylan”. On April 20 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School right outside Denver, before committing suicide. “This where it ends”, says Mr Cho in one of the video excerpts. “End of the road. What a life it was. Some life”. Jean-Cosme Delaloye / New York A similar French version of this story was published on April 20 in 24heures and Tribune de Genève. Please read on the same topic the follow tpinews.com stories: CommentsYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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