>
> This so-called People's Republic of China, does not share the spirit
> of the Olympic Games!
> Don't go there - don't support another Holocaust!
> Nowadays you cannot claim not to know!
>
> See for yourself and DO something!
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> CHINA's BLOODY HARVEST
>
> Waiting times for organ transplants in China are a matter of days.
> Everywhere else waiting times are measured in years
>
> David Matas
> National Post
>
> Wednesday, August 23, 2006
>
> Is China harvesting organs of Falun Gong practitioners, killing them
> in the process? A Japanese television news agency reporter and the ex-
> wife of a surgeon in March made claims this was happening at Liaoning
> Hospital in Sujiatin, China. Are those claims true?
>
> The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in
> China, an organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., in May asked
> former Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific David Kilgour and me
> to investigate these claims. We released a report in July which came
> to the conclusion, to our regret and horror, that the claims were
> indeed true.
>
> The repressive and secretive nature of Chinese governance made it
> difficult for us to assess the claims. We were not allowed entry to
> China, though we tried. Organ harvesting is not done in public. If the
> claims are true, the participants are either victims who are killed
> and their bodies cremated or perpetrators who are guilty of crimes
> against humanity and unlikely to confess.
>
> We examined every avenue of proof and disproof available to us,
> eighteen in all. They were:
>
> - The Communist Party of China, for no apparent reason other than
> totalitarian paranoia, sees Falun Gong as an ideological threat to its
> existence. Yet, objectively, Falun Gong is just a set of exercises
> with a spiritual component.
>
> - The threat the Communist Party perceives in the Falun Gong community
> has led to a policy of persecution. Persecution of the Falun Gong in
> China is officially decided and decreed.
>
> - Falun Gong practitioners are victims of extreme vilification. The
> official Chinese position on Falun Gong is that it is "an evil cult."
>
> - Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested in huge numbers. They
> are detained without trial or charge until they renounce Falun Gong
> beliefs.
>
> - Falun Gong practitioners are victims of systematic torture and ill
> treatment. While the claims of organ harvesting of Falun Gong
> practitioners have been met with doubt, there is no doubt about this
> torture.
>
> - Many Falun Gong practitioners have formally disappeared; they are
> the subject of formal disappearance complaints by family members. Many
> more practitioners, in an attempt to protect their families and
> communities, have not identified themselves once arrested. These
> unidentified are a particularly vulnerable population.
>
> - Traditional sources of transplants -- executed prisoners, donors,
> the brain dead -- come nowhere near to accounting for the total number
> of transplants in China. The only other identified source which can
> explain the skyrocketing transplant numbers is Falun Gong
> practitioners.
>
> - Falun Gong practitioners in prison are systematically blood tested
> and physically examined. Yet, because they are also systematically
> tortured, this testing can not be motivated by concerns over their
> health.
>
> - In a few cases, between death and cremation, family members of Falun
> Gong practitioners were able to see the mutilated corpses of their
> loved ones. Organs had been removed.
>
> - We interviewed the Japanese journalist and the ex-wife of the
> surgeon from Sujiatin. Their testimony was credible to us. In order to
> be cautious, we relied on this testimony only when it was
> independently corroborated.
>
> - We had callers phoning hospitals throughout China posing as family
> members of persons who needed organ transplants. In a wide variety of
> locations, those who were called asserted that Falun Gong
> practitioners (reputedly healthy because of their exercise regime)
> were the source of the available organs. We have recordings and
> telephone bills for these calls.
>
> - Waiting times for organ transplants in China are incredibly short, a
> matter of days. Everywhere else in the world, waiting times are
> measured in years.
>
> - Chinese hospital Web sites host incriminating information
> advertising organs of all sorts on short notice.
>
> - A Falun Gong practitioner who had been in prison in China told us
> that her Chinese jailers lost interest in her once they found out that
> her organs had been damaged.
>
> - China is a systematic human rights violator. The overall pattern of
> violations makes it harder to dismiss any one claimed violation.
>
> - There is huge money to be made in China from transplants. Prices
> charged to foreigners, also available on a Web site, range from US
> $30,000 for corneas to US$180,000 for a liver and kidney combination.
>
> - Corruption in China is a major problem. The huge money to be made
> from transplants, the lack of state controls over corruption and the
> marginalization of the Falun Gong are a deadly trio.
>
> - Until July 1 of this year, there was no law in China preventing the
> selling of organs and no law requiring consent for organ harvesting.
> China has a poor history of implementing laws designed to ensure
> respect for human rights.
>
> It is easy to take each element in isolation, and say that this
> element or that does not prove the claim. But it is their combination
> which led us to the chilling conclusion to which we came.
>
> We are reinforced in our conclusions by the feeble response of the
> Government of China. Despite all their resources and inside knowledge,
> they have not provided any information to counter our report. Instead,
> they have attacked us personally and, more worrisome, attacked the
> Falun Gong with the very sort of verbal abuse which we have identified
> as one of the reasons we believe these atrocities are occurring.
>
> Our report has seventeen different recommendations. Virtually no
> precaution one can imagine to prevent the harvesting of organs of
> Falun Gong practitioners in China is currently being taken. All these
> precautions should be put in place.
>
> But there is one basic recommendation we make which must be
> implemented immediately. Organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners
> in China must stop.
>
> - David Matas is a Winnipeg international human rights lawyer. The
> full report is available
athttp://organharvestinvestigation.net.
>
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