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On July 13, 2006, Rahim Jaffer, the chair of the Conservative caucus, commented on Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China published by David Kilgour and David Matas on July 6. Mr. Jaffer said that it is a persecution of people by a tyrannical power which is unprecedented in history. It is a violation of human dignity. He said that not only should the Canadian government take action, but we also should cooperate with other governments to solve this issue according to law, and bring it to the relevant international court.
![]() Rahim Jaffer, the chair of the Conservative caucus |
Mr. Jaffer said that the report verifies many allegations of the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. He urged the Canadian government to take action and cooperate with other countries to add pressure on the CCP so that the CCP will stop the persecution.
The report verifies the allegations; Organ Harvesting from living people shocks Canadians
Mr. Jaffer said that the report verifies the allegations of human rights violation in China, especially the persecution of Falun Gong, but what bothers people is the facts of the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners that have been verified by the report. Jaffer said that all Canadians, no matter what community they are from, are shocked by this news.
Mr. Jaffer agreed with Mr. Matas' comment on the organ harvesting--it is "a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet." Mr. Jaffer said that it is definitely a form of evil that has never happened. It is unacceptable. It has never happened anywhere at any time in the world." Mr. Jaffer said that it is a persecution of people by a tyrannical power that is unprecedented in history, and a violation of human dignity.
Form an international union to add pressure on the CCP and bring the criminals to justice
When speaking of what actions the Canadian government should take, Mr. Jaffer said that the Canadian government should not only add pressure on the CCP to stop the crimes, but also support the people of justice who are making an effort to stop this crime.
Mr. Jaffer suggested that the Canadian government should cooperate with other countries, including the U.S. and European countries, who are willing to stop this crime, to form an international union to exert pressure on the CCP, urging it to open the gates so that people can learn the truth. Mr. Jaffer said that not only should the Canadian government take action, but we also should cooperate with other governments to solve this issue by the laws, and bring it to the relevant international court.
The response from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada and Citizens
On Wednesday, during an interview, Pamela Greenwell, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said that the Canadian government has "serious concerns" about illegal harvesting of organs from inmates and urges China to obey its own laws. She said that the recommendations made in the investigation reports match the Canadian government's policies, including urging the CCP to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.
On the day the Globe and Mail reported the investigation results by the Canadian independent investigation group, dozens of readers made comments on its website. A reader from Toronto said that, if true, this is nothing short of genocide and it should be investigated by international organizations. Another said that it is a crime and must be punished.
A woman from Calgary has had two kidney transplant surgeries. She said that it would be horrifying, if she finds out that one of her kidneys was harvested from a living person without permission. A man from Waterloo said that it is sickening and is an insult to human beings. He asked: "Cannot we do something about the serious violation of basic human rights? We have lost our moral compass!"
Mr. Jaffer told the reporter that the Parliament and Ministry of Foreign Affair of Canada have serious concerns and are studying the investigation report carefully. He said that the Canadian government will take actions soon.
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My wife Zhang Lihong has two young children, a blind mother and an 80-year-old father, so she lived in Lufeng, Guangdong province, in Mainland China. Because she persists in her belief in Falun Gong, she was abducted at midnight May 19 2004 when 20 policemen in six police vehicles surrounded her house.
According to my father-in-law, when he and Lihong's mother saw policemen trying to take away their daughter, they grabbed her tightly and begged the policemen with tears. But two old people couldn't protect their daughter. In order to stop the policemen, the elderly man ran to the police car wanting to use his death to stop the vicious policemen. But he was stopped by the policemen. No matter how the seniors and two 3-4 year old children cried, the policemen and agents from the national security bureau showed no mercy.
My wife went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal abduction. Many overseas people also protested and tried to rescue her. After three days, she was released.
But the Shanwei City Communist Party's persecution of her didn't end there. On October 27, 2004, after my wife sent our two children to kindergarten, she talked to some local people about how the Communist Party persecuted her and other Falun Gong practitioners. She was abducted again. In a few days, the Shanwei city National Security Bureau sent her to three years of forced labor in Guangdong Province Women's Forced Labor Institute (formerly the Sanshui Women's forced labor institute). She has not yet been released.
The persecution from the Chinese Communist Party has brought a lot of suffering to my wife and my family, especially my mother-in-law. Thinking of her daughter, the elderly lady could not bear the pain and went blind and suffered a mental collapse.
More and more Hong Kong residents and officials became aware of the communist party's persecution of my family and expressed their support and sympathy. So far, seven city legislative members and two district representatives have signed the petition letter requesting the related authorities of Guangdong Province to release my wife. They are Yang Sen, Li Zuoren, He Junren, Liu Huiqing, Liang Yaozhong, Zeng Jiafu, Liang Guoxiong, Li Zili, Zeng Jiancheng. Two other Hong Kong legislative members wrote letters to the Guangdong Province Bureau of forced labor, requesting them to release my wife. District Council members Li Zili and Dai Zuoxian wrote letters to the Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp, asking them to release Zhang Lihong. During the signature drives, nearly 2000 Hong Kong residents signed their names requesting the Chinese Communist Party to release my wife.
The following is a public inquiry to the Sanshui Women's Forced Labor of Guangdong Province:
1. In the first month after she was sent to the labor camp, sources said my wife was tortured and injured. She was hospitalized for one week. How did the forced labor camp torture her? I have the right to bring the responsible people to justice.
2. I have written many letters to the forced labor camp asking them if she was abused, regarding her sleep, work, work hours, life, punishment and reasons for punishment. I didn't get any replies so far.
3. I have made a lot of phone calls to the women's forced labor institute asking about her situation, but received no clear answer.
4. My father-in-law is 77 years old. He traveled a long way to visit her. But the forced labor institute refused to let him see her. The excuse was that the meeting hall was being remodeled.
5. In May 2006, my wife was transferred to the most evil 3rd squadron. What is the reason? Why did the authorities want to "tightly manage" her? Why did they assign two other inmates to monitor her around the clock? Do they want to cover their evil doings by "tight management" so as to cut communications with the outside? I strongly request the forced labor institute to stop the evil "sealed management" of her.
6. China's Constitution gives every citizen the freedom of belief. Why did the forced labor camp personnel threaten her to give up her belief?
7. Other released Falun Gong practitioners said the 3rd squadron ordered other prisoners to beat Falun Gong practitioners, deprive them of sleep or force them to squat for long periods of time.
8. The forced labor institute was under the administration of the Guangdong Province Judicial System. The officials of the Guangdong Judicial System are responsible for any torture of my wife and other Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor institutes.
9. The authorities must guarantee that Falun Gong practitioners will not be tortured or abused and must release all illegally imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, including my wife.
Kuang Senqia
Hong Kong Resident
June 12 2006
Note: Zhang Lihong is now imprisoned in Guangdong Women's Forced Labor Institute. She is in the 3rd squadron, district one.
Phone number of Judicial Department Guangdong Province: 86-20-86350062
![]() Nearly 2000 Hong Kong residents signed on petition form asking for release of Zhang Lihong |
From July 6 2006, Falun Gong practitioners at the University of Augsburg in Southern Germany organized a two-week long activity, appealing for the urgent rescue of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaoyan in China and for the immediate end to the harvesting of organs from living people by the Chinese Communist regime.
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Wang Xiaoyan lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. She is the wife of Zhang Zhendan who currently studies in Germany. Both of them are Falun Gong practitioners. Ms Wang was unable to join her husband in Germany because the Chinese police confiscated her passport. On May 27 this year, she was abducted by police when she left home for work. Police then forcibly entered her home and took away her computer, printer, external hard diskette, Falun Gong books and many other things. She is currently being detained in the Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian.
A year ago, Zhang Zhendan studied at the University of Augsburg, and many people in the university know him. When students learned about the atrocities of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime and the news of Ms Wang’s detention by the Chinese police, they signed the two petitions without any hesitation.
A Falun Gong practitioner who organized this activity said that because in Mainland China, almost all forced labor camps and detention centers are involved in the organ harvesting of live Falun Gong practitioners, they decided to combine the two topics, rescuing Wang Xiaoyan and exposing the CCP’s organ harvesting.
According to a witness statement from a veteran military doctor in Shenyang city, Chinese officials falsified at least sixty thousand signatures on consent forms for donating organs. A student wrote: "The western countries should immediately stop people from having organ transplants and purchasing organs in China. If German citizens go to China to purchase organs, they should be instantly fined and jailed."
Another student wrote: "Don’t trade with any countries where there are no basic human rights." Three more students agreed with the above statement.
Other student wrote: "China has no human rights. It is
terrible." "Everyone has the right to protect one’s health and life.
Respecting this right is the duty of every human being for the sake of
all mankind."
By the time late spring and early summer arrive, Ontario Province, Canada enters a beautiful season. During this time of year, many cities host multi-cultural festivals in which the immigrant communities display their diverse cultures. These festivals are also the stage for Falun Gong practitioners to clarify the truth to the people of Canada. The practitioners of southwest Ontario worked together and participated in a series of festivals in Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Hamilton. They displayed the beauty of Falun Gong, exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and clarified the truth to many people.
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Stage Performances -- Presenting Falun Gong's Style
Last year, the Toronto Lotus Art Performance Troupe's performances by young Falun Gong practitioners left a deep impression on the Guelph Multi-cultural festival's organizers. This year, they invited the Falun Gong practitioners to perform at the festival again and put a photo of the Lotus Art Performance Troupe on the festival poster. But the Lotus Art Performance Troupe had a lot of appointments and couldn't participate in Guelph's festival. With help from Toronto practitioners, we invited Mr. Jiang Weifeng, a famous Erhu performer who happened to be in Canada. Jiang Weifeng played two musical pieces and won warm applause. Several Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises in white exercise suits while a Western practitioner introduced the exercises. At Kitchener-Waterloo, the Fan Dance performance won a lot cheers. After the stage performance, many audience members asked for information about Falun Gong. These performances are an effective channel to promote Falun Gong.
![]() Demonstration of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. |
Paper Lotus Flowers -- Messengers to Deliver the Truth
The lotus flower represents purity and graciousness. When practitioners give visitors a paper lotus flower, people are so pleased and say things such as, "It's pretty!" "It's great!" "Thank you for letting me have this." The paper lotus flowers have become a good medium for clarifying the truth. For months, the practitioners prepared a lot of paper lotus flowers and printed a Falun Dafa website address and "Falun Dafa is good," "The world needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" in the center. This information gives predestined people an opportunity to learn more about Falun Gong.
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The owner of the booth next to us saw that a lot of people in the park had a paper lotus flower on their braids, arms or body, so she came to our booth to "order one flower". After she read carefully through the truth-clarification materials, she solemnly signed her name on the petition form requesting an end to the persecution. On the second day, she came to our booth again to make lotus flowers with practitioners. After she learned more about the truth, she said she would pass the information along to her daughter, who is presently working in the movie industry in the UK.
Chinese Calligraphy -- Helping People Know "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance"
As a special feature at the multi-culture festivals, Falun Gong practitioners with talents in Chinese calligraphy wrote the Chinese characters for, "The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" and peoples' names in Chinese characters. Their tables often had a long line of people waiting to receive the calligraphy.
While the visitors were waiting, other practitioners would chat with them. During the talks, people learned that Falun Gong has spread throughout the world. Falun Gong's basic principle is "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." Every practitioner guides their life according to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and strives to be a better person. Upon hearing this, many people would respond with, "If everyone conducted themselves according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, how beautiful this world would be!"
When people learned that the Chinese Communist Party is harvesting vital organs from living Falun Gong practitioners who are illegally jailed in China to sell for profit, they signed their names on the signature book. The international community is awakening to the crimes taking place in China, and this is helping to end the persecution earlier. Some visitors also asked for materials in Chinese to show their Chinese friends and colleagues.
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A Canadian family came to our table. The mother said she was going to work in China and she couldn't understand why the Chinese Communist Party wants to persecute such a peaceful group. A practitioner gave her a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. She thanked them and said she would study these materials before going to China.
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Chinese People Want to Learn the Truth
We met many Chinese people at the festivals. Some of them came to us to ask for more truth-clarification materials.
One man from Shandong Province said he got a copy of the Nine Commentaries in Toronto. He experienced the history mentioned in the Nine Commentaries. "The Nine Commentaries speak the truth," he said. A young man from Changchun City, Jilin Province spoke to a practitioner, "I read through the Nine Commentaries. I will withdraw from the CCP as soon as I become a Canadian citizen."
A young man came to our table and said, "Do you have the Nine Commentaries VCDs? When you played the video, I watched a lot of them but still missed some." He left with the required VCDs, satisfied.
One man from Tianjin came with his son. A practitioner gave the boy a paper lotus flower. He hung the flower on the boy's bicycle and took some truth-clarification materials with his other hand. He said to the son, "Say 'thank you' to granny [a respectful term for an older Chinese woman]." The father and son thanked the practitioners and left.
A couple from Hunan Province said they watched the Nine Commentaries VCDs in China. A middle-aged women accepted a truth-clarification VCD and said, "I have had a question for a long time. If Falun Gong improves people's health, why doesn't the Communist Party allow people to practice it? I must watch the VCD to find the answer." A practitioner told her, "Knowing the truth will benefit you." She smiled.