“So, who is going to trust your words this time,” Yang said of Li in an interview conducted in Mandarin.

Yang told The Canadian Press that Li's claims about her daughter left her shaking with “extreme shock and anger.” She was also appalled by his claim to be a victim of persecution. Li, who served a prison sentence in China for killing Zhao, is now seeking refugee status in New Zealand, and posed for newspaper photographs draped in a Tibetan flag, his hands clasped in prayer. Li said in an interview with New Zealand's Herald on Sunday newspaper that Zhao could be “still alive and walking around somewhere,” as he described himself as a “political target.” More than 20 years later, any sense of closure that act offered has been torn apart by the claims of Zhao's convicted killer, Ang Li, that he was framed by China's government and Zhao might not be dead at all. She had been “brought home,” her mother said. Yang returned to Beijing with Zhao's ashes. The 21-year-old English student's remains had been found stuffed in a suitcase in Mission, B.C., and Yang's identification of her daughter was also confirmed by a police DNA test. In 2002, Yang Baoying flew from China to Vancouver to identify her daughter Amanda Zhao's body.

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