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She said the Army told the family that a week before Pvt. Chen's suicide, she said, a sergeant pulled him out of his bed and dragged him 150 feet across a gravely courtyard to their shower facilities.

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Last month, the Army charged five soldiers in Pvt. Chen's unit with involuntary manslaughter, which can carry a 10-year prison sentence upon conviction, and other offenses in connection with his Oct. 3 death.

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Wuluwufu from state-owned Qiangguo Forum argued that Chen's life sentence is a farce of Taiwan's democratic system.

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Family friend Frank Gee , 72 years old, translated for Pvt. Chen's mother, Su Zhen Chen : "The mother says that you'd think after all these months the pain would subside."

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Another debate among Hong Kong netizens over Chen's sentence is on whether or not Chen's sentence is a result of the anti - Chinese Communist party's sentiment in Taiwan (as corruption is the biggest problem in China).

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Several netizens from Hong Kong Golden Forum used the graphic picture below to celebrate Chen's sentence.

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There is a hot debate on whether Chen's life sentence is a farce or victory of democracy.

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The amount of money taken away by Chen's dirty hands is only a fraction of the corrupt officialdom in the mainland China, but Chen was punished for life sentence, will that happen in mainland China?

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It is interesting to note that such opinion is very different from some Taiwanese netizens viewpoint that the Taiwanese ruling party KMT is trying to please CCP with Chen's life imprisonment (via Portnoy's post).

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George Wright , an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, confirmed that Army officials briefed Pvt. Chen's family and others on the results of a regional command investigation into his death.

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