Letter to the Editor

To the editor:

Please forgive my intrusion. Carmen Cerra’s “Poison Ink” is really poison sometimes. The cartoon about Chinese human rights in the Daily of April 19 was such an example.

As some of you may know, China has made great progress on protecting human rights. The majority of Chinese people feel satisfied by this progress.

We enjoy the same rights as you American people enjoy, from survival rights to election rights, from free-speech rights to parade gathering rights. That’s the reason why the United Nations said China is not violating human rights.

Of course, the Chinese government has to act seriously against criminals to protect most people’s human rights, just as the U.S. government and any other governments do. But even in prison, people also have their human basic rights protected, not like the cartoon described.

I wonder where Carmen Cerra got such an awful idea about China. Iowa State has about 500 Chinese students. You can ask any of us about whether what I say is true.

Carmen Cerra, if you don’t believe the Chinese government, you should believe Chinese people. If you don’t believe Chinese people, you should believe the world’s voice and the United Nations.

If you don’t believe them either, you’d better believe some American people who know about China. If you don’t believe anyone except yourself, then who will believe you?

Please! Don’t say anything you don’t know. It may be a kind of abuse.

Wang Bing-Bing

Graduate student

Interdepartmental genetics program