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Falun Gong practitioners in Montreal, Canada held a rally in the burning sun in Chinatown where there was a crowd people on the afternoon of July 8, 2006, in response to two Canadian independent investigators, Mr. David Kilgour and Mr. David Matas, who released their investigative report concluding that allegations of the CCP’s large-scale practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners are credible. The practitioners called on people to work together to end the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.
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Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Hongni said to the audience at the rally in both Chinese and English, "This investigation result proves that Falun Gong practitioners’ allegations of the CCP’s harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners is true, and at the same time shows that there are thousands of, tens of thousands of and even unimaginable number of Falun Gong practitioners suffering brutal torture and facing the danger of having their organs harvested."
"This is not an individual crime, this is a matter concerning at least thousands of innocent Falun Gong practitioners who have had their organs forcibly removed. These practitioners had their kidneys, livers, hearts, corneas and other vital organs removed, and then were cremated to destroy the evidence."
With the extensive exposure of the CCP’s crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, many Chinese people have changed greatly, and more and more Chinese people took truth clarification materials and some even took the initiative to request a copy of "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party".
" I’m very much worried about those Chinese Falun Gong practitioners who are still being detained," Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaohua said while handing out materials to passersby.
Wang Xiaohua told the reporter, "I was a lucky one among countless Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally detained in the CCP’s forced labor camps. I can come to Canada, this free land. I was once detained for nearly two years in the No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Yunnan Province. In January 2002, more than 60 Falun Gong practitioners detained in the forced labor camp were sent to the camp’s hospital (County Hospital), where our blood was tested, we were checked by X rays and our lower back and kidney areas were pressed, and other checkups. At the time, we thought that was the CCP’s hypocritical act in order to transfer Falun Gong practitioners. With the exposure of the CCP’s crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and the confirmation from the two Canadian independent investigators’ report, I think the check-up in 2002 were for collecting data for organ match up. It is really chilling and horrible."
Wang Xiaohua expressed that he is grateful to the Canadian government and the two investigators’ great efforts, and he hopes that the international community will pay attention, and hopes that more people, especially Chinese people, will see clearly the CCP’s evil nature through this report that confirms the CCP’s crimes against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, so as to awaken those Chinese people whose minds have been deceived by the CCP’s lies, and take possible measures to stop the crimes against humanity.
The rally lasted for three hours, during which some practitioners distributed materials to explain the facts, and most others practiced the exercises. The scene was peaceful and tranquil, affecting the CBC reporter who came to interview. She expressed after video taping the scene that as far as she was concerned, she also wanted to practice Falun Gong.
After the rally, Ms. He said to the reporters, "Before the release of the investigative report, many people did not believe that it was true. Facing such horrific persecution, if one still sits by and does not have a bit of kind thought, it will be terrible for this life. Hereby, we just want to let more people learn about the facts, and awaken people’s conscience and kind thoughts that they should have innately."
During the rally, the Canadian National Broadcasting Corporation (CBC’s French-language network), and the Canadian National TV station (CBC’s French-language network) came to conduct interviews.
During the first conference of the UN Human Rights Council, a health, ethics and human rights seminar was held at the auditorium of the UN Office in Geneva on June 29, organized by international non-government organizations Interfaith International and the Transnational Radical Party. The seminar focused on the illegal organ trade in China. Those who participated in the conference strongly called for an independent investigation into the incident so as to end the inhuman crimes.
Dr. Charles Graves, chairman of Interfaith International hosted the conference. Targeting the accusation of organ removal from live Falun Gong practitioners in China, he made the point that the new human rights council should pay attention to the issue of health and ethics especially when it is related to faith. Regarding Falun Gong, he told those who came that Falun Gong is a faith that includes the traditions of the Taoist and Buddhist Schools. He said, "We should highly evaluate Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong. Because of his efforts and works, the exercises, and the faith are practiced not only in China but some other places in the world. However, what makes people difficult to understand is what he has done has aroused the crazy reaction of the Chinese Government".
Mr. Edward MacMillan Scott, Vice-Chairman of European Parliament, the first western politician to make an investigation into the issue of Falun Gong in China, specially sent a letter to the conference expressing his full support. In his letter, he stated that in China, there are now about four hundred hospitals doing organs transplantation. Business is brisk. It indicates on their websites: Kidney transplantation for 60,000 US dollars. When asked, some managers replied: Yes, as organs providers, the kidneys of those practicing Falun Gong are healthy.
A statement by Ms. Chen Ying, a Falun Gong practitioner who now lives in France, has validated the above fact. Because of refusing to give up practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Chen was illegally locked up in a detention center several times and forced to do hard labor. She said that during the time she was locked up, she went on hunger strike protesting against the police persecution. "Later on, I was forced to wear handcuffs and leg-irons and taken to a hospital for a health check-up such as heart, blood and eye checks. Although the result of health checkup showed that I was in good health, a doctor of the prison forced me to have an injection of an unknown drug. When the medication entered my body, my heart started to beat acutely and my blood vessels were in sharp pain like they would burst apart. I felt flustered and suffocated, and my body was too painful to describe. After the injection, the left side of my body often twitched and I felt pins and needles in my nerves. Even worse, I was in an anxious state of mind. I was so dejected and oppressed that I couldn’t help wanting to cry or get angry. I nearly collapsed, and subsequently I lost my memory. Later, on my family members bailed me out. The first time I read the news that the Chinese Communist Party has been removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun Concentration Camp, I couldn’t stop my tears flowing. I have recalled that those people were in all probability prepared to use drugs to destroy my nervous system and then would take me somewhere to have my organs removed. Whenever I think of this, I always tremble with fear."
Chairman of the International NGO Human Rights Special Committee, Mr. Peter Prove indicated that, as a person committed to protecting the dignity of human beings, the reports and the experiences of the victims help him to realize that the value of the fundamental dignity of human being has been attacked. They have systematically violated a fundamental human right: the right to life. The only response should be conducting an independent investigation. He hoped that these calls could be widely responded to.
The former chairman of the Human Rights Committee at the Parliament of Geneva, Mr. Thomas Buchi delivers speech. |
Mr. Thomas Buchi, the former chairman of the Human Rights Committee
in the Parliament of Geneva said, "I am horrified at such a wild
action, like that of the Nazi doctor Mengele. The parliament of Geneva
has already carried out a series of investigations into the persecution
of Falun Gong practitioners since 2000. In 2002, the parliament passed
a decision condemning the persecution of Falun Gong. But now, the
situation is getting even worse. We should report the above to the
Human Rights Council and Ms. Louise Harbor, High Commissioner of Human
Rights in the UN so as to stop the wild infringement of human rights".