This letter is based on the emails sent to Hands Off Cain and Amnesty International(AI), both group used the similiar unscientific methods in their recent report in relation to death penalty in China.
The report of AI
http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/death-sentences-and-executions-in-2007
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Dear Recipient,
Our team member includes a principle investigator of a social survey of 12 nations, we would like to point out one major problem in the Campaign material of Hands Off Cain and Amnesty International, the statment about death penalty in China is absolutly unscientific.
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(Hands Off Cain ) Rights group: China still world’s top executioner
This title is misleading and the conclusion is unscientific.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-24-execution_N.htm?csp=34#uslPageReturn http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/24/news/Death-Penalty.php
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(Amnesty International) AI offical video of the anti-olympic campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4XVchdJQ4
This video used the unscientific evidence - total amount of execution as major argument for the anti Olympic campaign.
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Its clear your statment and campaign is misleading and discrimintated against 20% world population.We demand you publish a formal apology for this misleading report and the statment in the media.
China is the most populous country in the world, roughly 1 in every 5 people in the world is Chinese, so if this country has a average level of execution, it would naturally be found on top of the list. In another words, if the level of execution in China is about average, 1 in 5 people executed should come from China. Just like 1 in 5 people die from traffic accident is from China, 1 in 5 women is from China, 1 in 5 man is from China, 1 in 5 intersex people is from China…China top the list of people die from traffic accident, China top the list of population of woman, China top the list of population of man, China top the list of population of intersex, China top the list of total number of Execution… Do those statements tell people anything at all? No.
What should be compare is the amount of execution on per capital basis. Do you have the data? Is China still on the top?
We caculate the data by ourselft, we got the total amount data from AI and population from CIA, two independent source from Chinese government, But the result we find is that China’s rank is 28.
The referencehttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_exe-crime-executions_percaphttp://www.photius.com/rankings/population/population_2007_0.html
lets see how many nations execute more people than China on per capital basis.
nations
No. of cases
total poulation
the per captical rate
new rank
Bahamas, The:
2
303,770
6.58393E-06
1
Equatorial Guinea:
3
540,109
5.55443E-06
2
Saudi Arabia:
143
27,019,731
5.29243E-06
3
Iran:
317
68,688,433
4.61504E-06
4
Sierra Leone:
24
6,005,250
3.9965E-06
5
Rwanda:
24
8,648,248
2.77513E-06
6
Oman:
6
3,102,229
1.93409E-06
7
Zimbabwe:
2
1223680
1.63441E-06
8
Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
100
62,660,551
1.5959E-06
9
Libya:
9
5,900,754
1.52523E-06
10
Jordan:
9
5,906,760
1.52368E-06
11
Taiwan:
32
23,036,087
1.38912E-06
12
Iraq:
33
26,783,383
1.23211E-06
13
Pakistan:
135
165,803,560
8.14217E-07
14
Kyrgyzstan:
4
5,213,898
7.6718E-07
15
Yemen:
15
21,456,188
6.99099E-07
16
United States:
42
60,609,153
6.92965E-07
17
Botswana:
1
1,639,833
6.09818E-07
18
Egypt:
48
78,887,007
6.08465E-07
19
Somalia:
5
8,863,338
5.64122E-07
20
Lebanon:
2
3,874,050
5.16256E-07
21
Afghanistan:
15
31,056,997
4.82983E-07
22
Nigeria:
6
13185973.00
4.55029E-07
23
Singapore:
2
4,492,150
4.45221E-07
24
Cuba:
5
11,382,820
4.39258E-07
25
Kuwait:
1
2,418,393
4.13498E-07
26
Syria:
7
18,881,361
3.70736E-07
27
China:
470
1,313,973,713
3.57694E-07
28
Despite of human rights, many of us are also strong supportors of other left wing movement, including woman rights, animal rights, we believe the internal value of all sentience beings so there is no doubt that we strongly support human right. But please study more about social science and Math before launching your campaign, or your good intention would be used to stereotype and therefore discriminate one of the largest ethnic group, Chinese, in the world- this is also a form of very serious abuse of human rights. Please quota data scientifically and intelligently. Do more research.
Its clear your statment and campaign is misleading and discrimintate against 20% world population.We demand you publish a formal apology for this misleading report and the statment in the media.
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Please stop listing a few, or even a hundred, seperate cases as argument. Do you watching Criminal Investigation channel? Do you horrified by thos crimes? Will you then draw conclusion based on what you saw on CI that whole nation is bad as that? Of course you will not because you are intellegent, we know WE SHOULD NOT DRAW CONCLUSION based on A FEW CASES, even hundreds cases can means nothing when the total population is as large as 1.3billion, you can easilier catch some bugs.
Instead we should use statistics to have a better understanding of the real situation in the nation, unfortunetly your campaign do not have a good statistic as its support, it lead people to ask, since China is not the top offender, why those group launch campaign against it, why discriminate this nation? What is the reasons behind this action?
In the long run, the death penalty should be abolished in any part of the world but changes are not happen over night. The first thing need to change is not what government think, but what average people think about this issue, when still many people do not understand the abolishing of death penalty, even government want to abolish it, it will not happen, because the public won't support it. The common reaction would be ‘if serious crime is not punished how can I ensure my security? people to extend see death penalty as warning of serious criminal behavior’, we know this from our personal experience from several nations, you do not have to believe in us, the best way to get to know how people think is go to the nation and do a scientific survey. Arguing or assuming things do not help! this kind of survey wont take lots of money if you can find a good agent help you, one of our member once did a national survey in China, the cost will be less than 1,000 usd.
This is the reality, we need educate public first and change takes time. Many nations are still having death penalty, they also facing similar problem, not only China.
On the other side of issue, if Chinese government work with rights groups totally as you wish and stopping death penalty by forcing general public, it would be a typical example of abusing of democracy, Any one have real appericiation of the free choice of the citizen will not like it.
Those people who think they can changing China dramatically by pressing the government in the name of the Olympic game is naive and double-standarded in their views on human rights and democracy, why should they want the government force its citizens do things(abolishing death penalty in this case) they do not understand and accept ?
To those who really care about the improvement of human rights in the country, please be patient and work with Chinese people.
Be tolerant and understanding other culture.
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Please stop portrait Chinese as cruel and voilent, the crime rate in China is much lower than many nations, anyone has biase view towards ethinic Chinese people should go to wikipedia study traditional Chinese value Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism first and thenl ook at some scientific statistics.
Again, its clear your statment and campaign is misleading and discrimintate against 20% world population.We demand you publish a formal apology for this misleading report and the statment in the media.
Please caculate data on percapital basis.
We appreciate your real effort for human rights, but please do not make the human rights a political tool against different cutures and ethinic groups.
Regards,
Cultural Peace Group
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