Issued by Clearwisdom Net

 On April 14, 2006, practitioners in Los Angeles held a press conference in front of city hall and exposed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s crimes of large scale killing of Falun Gong practitioners and live organ removal for profit in labor camps. The conference pointed out that after the crime was exposed, CCP hastened to destroy evidence and dispose of witnesses. The practitioners called on the international society to pay attention to and stop the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

Rally venue

Dr. Yingnian Wu, a practitioner and Associate Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, was invited to give a speech. He said, "The CCP regime denied the atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp three weeks after the exposure, invited overseas media to conduct an investigation and had a press conference this week. In the three weeks, CCP had plenty of time to transfer eyewitness and destroy evidence. The invitation extended to overseas media is just a ploy. It is similar to the CCP's cover-up of SARS a few years ago. At that time the CCP transferred patients and denied the existence of the SARS epidemic, endangering many lives. Fortunately a senior military doctor exposed the CCP's lies, and the CCP had to admit to the SARS epidemic."

Dr. Wu pointed out, "The CCP's invitation of overseas media to conduct a so-called investigation after transferring and destroying eyewitness and evidence in Sujiatun is to transfer the attention of the international community away from the seven-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong throughout China. Comparing with the whole persecution, the Sujiatun atrocities are just a tip of the iceberg. The Falun Dafa Association and Clearwisdom have founded an 'Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)'. The coalition has issued a notice regarding the scope of investigation and evidence collection. If the CCP really would like to invite investigations from the international community, it should allow that organization to enter China to investigate all of the facts of persecution in labor camps, prisons, brainwashing centers and mental hospitals, including all of the locations where practitioners have been held during the past seven years."

Dr. Wu said at the end, "Hu Jintao will visit the U.S. We call on President Bush to urge Hu to stop the persecution of Falun Gong, allow an international investigation team to enter China, and bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan and other criminals to justice.

Practitioner Dr. Qu read the announcement of the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)". The coalition invites all related international organizations, state agencies and media to join in requesting to go to China to conduct an independent, direct, interference-free investigation to collect evidence, and to uncover the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong, including the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other secret concentration camps located elsewhere.

A representative from the Epoch Times narrated a timeline of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. Since July 20, 1999, CCP has treated Falun Gong practitioners as enemies and used them as raw materials for economic development. On December 20, 2000, it was first reported that police and doctors colluded to kill practitioners and sell their organs. The live organ removal and trade reached its peak between 2001 and 2003. In March 2006, the first witness exposed the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, followed by the second and third witnesses confirming the existence of Sujiatun Concentration Camp and 36 similar camps throughout China. Recent investigation shows that live organ removal is rampant in labor camps all over China."

Several others also gave speeches at the press conference condemning the CCP's atrocities and calling for an end of the persecution of Falun Gong. At the end, the host of the conference read an open letter to President Bush, urging him to ask Hu Jintao when meeting him, "Clarify the roles of China's labor camps in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Allow the ICIPO to go into China and research the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong."

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 On April 13, Toronto practitioners rallied in front of the Ontario Provincial Government to request the governor to advise all Ontarians not to go to China for organ transplants because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit. Going to China for an organ transplant is supporting this inhuman atrocity.

As early as March 8, a witness testified that the CCP had set up a concentration camp to harvest organs from living practitioners for profit and then cremate their remains to destroy evidence of the crimes. The United Nation expressed its concern over this claim on March 30^th.

After 3 weeks of silence, the CCP regime announced that it would ban illegal organ transplant practice starting on July 1.

An Ontario resident said that he called a hospital in China and asked: "I have heard that organs of Falun Gong practitioners are very good, do you have these kinds of organs available?" The doctor who answered the phone said: "All of the organs we have here are this kind, all from Falun Gong practitioners and fresh. If you want an organ transplant, please hurry up. We will have many of them in April."

Canadian Falun Dafa Association spokesman Joel Chipkar said that media reports had revealed that the CCP regime is escalating its atrocities in harvesting organs and killing Falun Gong practitioners. While destroying evidence of crimes, the regime is also trying to make a profit from this bloody business.

Mr. Chipkar said, "The persecution of Falun Gong has become a systematic slaughter of civilians directed by the government and a crime of harvesting organs for profit, which is totally against humanity. This is trampling on the human conscience, and all Ontarians must know this clearly."

Toronto City Councilman Michael Walker stated, "Everyone is born equal. When one person's rights are violated, everyone's rights are endangered. Harvesting organs and destroying evidence by cremating the bodies is the most severe crime that a government can commit. The free world cannot remain silent any more."

"How can we say this is acceptable? How can we say remaining silent is a right thing? As a resident of this Earth, I cannot remain silent. I will do all I can do to safeguard people's basic rights - the rights to live." Walker said at the rally.

Commentator Shi Tao said, "Today, the CCP is facing a similar environment as the time of the Nazis--a prosperous economy that took advantage of other countries' greed and commercial interests, overcoming their conscience. Facing evil, many chose to remain silent. Such an attitude made the Nazis boast: 'Even if you escape from here, no one will believe your claim!' Today, the CCP's policemen are saying the same thing to Falun Gong practitioners."

Shi Tao continued, "In China, to upgrade to a first class hospital with a higher rating, smaller hospitals in China must perform 5 kidney transplant operations. Consequently, some hospitals chose to sell out their conscience. On February 11, the director of the No. 3 Zhongshan Hospital in Guangdong Province said publicly at an academic conference, 'Don't come to China to have this kind of irresponsible organ transplant.'

"Some want to destroy evidence of crimes, some want money, some want organs. Today, Falun Gong practitioners are being killed to destroy the eyewitnesses of these atrocities. Tomorrow, doctors, nurses and other people who know of these crimes are likely targets, as well. The CCP will not leave these people alone, who can testify as witness in the future," Shi Tao warned.

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 Recently, the Singapore police have been restricting Falun Gong practitioners' truth clarification activities. They confiscated practitioners' display boards and banners, and intended to investigate the practitioners' activities. This situation is quite different from that of before. On March 21, 2006, a police officer forcibly took away banners and display boards, and told Ms. Huang Caihua, "If it were up to me, I would not do this; it's the higher-ups that ordered us to do so, and we have to comply." Ms. Huang also noticed that the Chinese Embassy changed an officer recently, and said, "The police officer's explanation doesn't exclude the possibility that the Chinese Communist regime (CCP) has exerted pressure on the Singapore police."

When the tragic incident was disclosed about the mass killing of Falun Gong practitioners, harvesting organs from living practitioners and then incinerating their remains to destroy the evidence in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other concentration camps, Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore were shocked and took action. On March 22, 2006, practitioners displayed pictures at Raffles Place - the financial heart of Singapore - to expose and protest the CCP's Nazi-like atrocities at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. These outrageous facts shocked the passersby. Many people stopped and carefully read the contents on the display boards, and many people took the initiative to learn more from the practitioners and anxiously asked what they could do to help.

A man who works as a security guard condemned the CCP expressed that Singaporeans should join in the efforts to stop these inhuman crimes.

The truth clarification activity was held from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with many practitioners' participation. After the lunch break, the police required the practitioners to leave using the excuse of their having no permit. Some practitioners left, but the police did not interfere with the remaining practitioners, who continued displaying the pictures to clarify the truth.

At 8:30 a.m. on March 31, when practitioners prepared to display pictures and distribute truth-clarifying flyers at the same place as they did the last time at Raffles Place, they noticed that the police were already there waiting, and there were many plainclothes policemen at the site. Some of them kept videotaping the whole situation. The police soon required the practitioners to leave, using the excuse of "breaching the Public Entertainment Act." This time their attitude was tough. The practitioners kept explaining the situation to them, and told them the horrible facts about Sujiatun and that they wanted to tell the facts to the local people, so as to jointly rescue the remaining practitioners in the concentration camp whose lives were at stake at any time. Nevertheless, the police still took away their display boards. Their way of doing things this time was completely different from their manner nine days before.

The same afternoon, Ms. Huang and another practitioner came to Raffles Place after their truth clarification activity in front of the Chinese Embassy. As soon as they displayed pictures and started clarifying the truth to people, police officers surrounded them. At about 3:00 p.m., the police forcibly took away the display boards and a banner lying on the ground, again using the excuse of "breaching the Public Entertainment Act." They even confiscated the two banners still in the practitioners' bag. The practitioners explained to them, "Our display of pictures has nothing to do with the Public Entertainment Act, the police should respect citizens' right to freedom of speech endowed by the Singapore Constitution. The constitution also endows the citizens with the right to clarify the truth when being wrongly slandered At this life-and-death critical moment, the police should help rescue lives who are at stake, not suppress people from voicing their concerns."

Unfortunately the police did not want to listen. At about 3:00 p.m., they forcibly arrested Ms. Huang and took her to the police department, but soon after, they let Ms. Huang leave the police department. Ms. Huang insisted that she would not leave until the police returned her display boards, and as a result, some more officers came to persuade her to leave. One of the officers said to Ms. Huang regarding the incident at Raffles Place, "If it were up to me, I would not do this. The officer above me was changed and he ordered us to do so, so we have to comply." He also said, "The police has been watching you for a long time, but you did not hold any activity like this before." After 8:00 p.m., Ms. Huang left the police department. Based to her previous experience, she believed it would be unlikely that the police would return their display boards.

On April 6, a plainclothes police officer videotapes the practitioners' activity in front of the Chinese Embassy

On April 6, a plainclothes police officer is collecting practitioners' truth clarification display boards in front of the Chinese Embassy

On the morning of April 6, 2006, Ms. Huang, who has persisted in doing truth clarification for nine months in front of the Chinese Embassy, came to the embassy as usual. She unfurled banners and display placards protesting the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong and started doing the exercises. At around 11:00 a.m., four to five plainclothes police and two officers in uniform came over and asked, "Have you applied for a public entertainment permit?" They then started removing display boards and banners. Ms. Huang asked, "We do the exercises in front of the Chinese Embassy to protest against the CCP, what does that have to do with entertainment? On previous occasions, you said if we were more than five persons, we would be taken as gathering without a permit, now you are telling us about this 'Public Entertainment Act.'" The day before this, a man came out of the Chinese Embassy and walked to the front of the display boards, apparently to learn about the truth. After taking some of the truth-clarification materials, he took pictures of the surrounding area and entered the embassy.

On April 9, in the busy area of Si Ma Lu, practitioners expose the CCP's atrocities to the local people

On Saturday April 8, Falun Gong practitioners went as usual to the busy area of Si Ma Lu to display placards and tell the local people about the persecution of Falun Gong, focusing on the Sujiatun incident. Soon, seven to eight police officers in uniform arrived. About one hour later, the police told the practitioners, "You haven't applied for a permit, so we'll confiscate your placards. I'm only telling you once." After that, they removed over a dozen placards, three banners and other materials and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The practitioners explained to surrounding people that there is such a horrible large-scale live organ harvesting taking place in China, and that everybody is responsible to help stop the crimes. The police, however, restricts us from clarifying the truth to rescue people; their act is just like committing a crime." The police left shortly afterwards. The practitioners continued clarifying the truth to the local people. At 1:00 p.m., another group of practitioners came and displayed placards and banners exposing the CCP's tyranny. Many people looked at the display boards and learned the facts. The practitioners did not leave until 4:00 p.m.

During the police's recent actions, they have confiscated 30 to 40 placards in total and over a dozen banners.

Ms. Huang said that she has been protesting the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in front of the Chinese Embassy for nine months, and she has never stopped for even one day, no matter what the weather is like. She has never met with such incidents where the police forcibly removed display boards and banners. There was also not such a case even in other places on the island, where practitioners have been clarifying the truth for eight to nine months. The police have learned about the truth and understood why the practitioners are holding these activities. Ms. Huang believed that the Chinese Embassy recently changed an officer in charge, and former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong announced a visit to China in the near future. The series of actions from the police may have something to do with pressure from the Chinese Embassy. Ms. Huang pointed out that this January, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Domestic Affairs Wong Kan Seng associated Falun Gong practitioners' truth clarification activities with violence and drug trafficking and other crimes in an exclusive interview with the media. He warned the general public to pay attention to "non-violent crime," which has had very bad influence among the local people. Ms. Huang and other Falun Gong practitioners have written many letters to Mr. Wong and other government officials, but their attitude toward Falun Gong has not seen much change. Nevertheless, Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore will continue their truth clarification efforts all the way until the persecution is stopped.

With the recent exposure of the CCP's outrageous atrocities in concentration camps, Falun Gong practitioners from around the world and many people of conscience have been holding rallies in different places to protest the CCP's inhuman and barbaric acts. On April 5, an urgent announcement from the Committee to Investigate the Facts stated that witnesses who have been locked up in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other concentration camps in China have been secretly transferred and their lives are at risk at any moment. Some hospitals in mainland China have suddenly started doing organ transplantation operations on a large-scale - a mass killing to destroy the evidence is taking place right now. We urgently call on the international community to immediately put a stop to this new wave of genocide.

At this serious historic moment, Singapore Falun Gong practitioners advise the Singapore government not to succumb to the CCP's pressure. The government is urged to position itself correctly on this major issue of principle.

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 The CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs from living practitioners in labor camps shocked people from all circles in Korea, and Korean transplant experts questioned the transplant practice in China from ethical and legal perspectives, while many groups and organizations have called for a full investigation of the forced labor camps across China. At the same time, a signature drive has been initiated in major cities in Korea to rescue practitioners in China.

Rally to condemn the CCP's atrocities

Korean people sign their names to support Falun Gong

The legitimacy and ethicality of the organ transplant practice in China have been widely questioned and criticized by the international community. The exposure of organ harvesting from living practitioners in forced labor camps unfortunately confirmed experts' concerns. In the Spring Seminar of the Korean Organ Transplant Association, Chairman of the association Fong Piam-Kee said: "The issue of most concern is its ethicality. In China, the whole process, including the selection of a matching organ provider and the operation's details, is not transparent. In addition, the commercial operation involved in the process is very disturbing and problematic. The ethical issues of the Chinese transplant practice have been a consistent problem."

In recently years, more and more Korean patients have gone to China for organ transplant operations. They would find the organ "donors" in a short time, and have the operation and come back to Korean in a matter of weeks. Regarding this situation, the executive director of the Korean Organ Transplant Association Lee Chum-Koi questioned: "This means that there are a large amount of organ providers standing by. It is very hard to understand how the hospitals in China can always have the operations at scheduled times."

On April 12, members of the Korean Branch of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, Sino-Korean Traditional Culture Research Association, Epoch Times Korean Branch and the Korean Falun Dafa Association rallied in front of the Korean Media Center and Entry/Exit Administration Bureau to strongly condemn the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities of harvesting organs from living practitioners and then cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence. They called on an immediate investigation of all forced labor camps in China.

The CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs from living practitioners have angered people from all over the country. Some gasped in horror after seeing the posters depicting the persecution, and some brought drinks to practitioners who were clarifying the truth to show their support. Some expressed their surprise at how evil the CCP was. Large numbers of people signed their names to rescue practitioners. Mr. Zhao, a company CEO, said indignantly: "If there are supreme beings, please let them punish those Communists". He took a bunch of petition forms to his company, saying that he will ask his employees to sign it.

This is another larger signature drive to rescue practitioners in China after a similar drive contributed to the rescue of Ms. Gao Chengnu.

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 After the CCP's crimes of harvesting organs from living practitioners were exposed, Turkish practitioners in Istanbul first spent more than two weeks clarifying the truth to the local government, media and general public by mail. They then went on the streets to further clarify the truth. On April 7, they went to a district where Chinese people congregate to expose the atrocities to these precious Chinese people.

For more than five hours, the practitioners visited companies, shops and hotels run by Chinese one by one and delivered materials about the CCP's organ harvesting, the Epoch Times book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and Falun Gong introductory materials. They also told them about the bloody crimes the CCP committed in the Sujiatun concentration camp and patiently answered various questions people raised.

Most Chinese people working or living in this district just came from mainland China recently. Some were poisoned more by the CCP's propaganda due to exposure to its brainwashing over a long time. Before this activity, local practitioners had sent them materials, including the Nine Commentaries, several times and helped some of them to awaken to the truth to different degrees. This time, the information about the CCP's removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and cremating the bodies afterwards to destroy the evidence in the Sujiatun concentration camp shocked almost everyone and helped a lot of them see clearly the evil nature of the CCP.

Some people expressed gratitude to the practitioners after receiving the materials; some hoped that the practitioners would send more materials in the future. A young woman in particular asked for one more copy of the Nine Commentaries. She said she had a friend who just came from China and she wanted her to read this book to see clearly the true face of the CCP.

The CCP has been relentlessly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since July 20, 1999 in order to force them to give up their faith. It has used all kinds of inhuman and evil means, including torture, sexual abuse and psychological torment. Recently, it was revealed that the CCP had set up a concentration camp in Sujiatun to detain Falun Gong practitioners and cremate their corpses after removing their organs while they were still alive.

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 On April 6, 2006, representatives of Finish Falun Gong practitioners were invited to the Parliament Building to have a talk with Mrs. Ulla Anttila, Chairperson of the Finish Parliament's Human Rights Group, Ms. Paula Moisander, Secretary for the Parliament's International Affairs, and Ms. Janine Hasenson, Head of Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the atrocities surrounding the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs in China.

Dr. Li, a Falun Gong practitioner who works at Helsinki University as a researcher, first detailed the inside story about the concentration camp in Sujiatun district, Shenyang province. He explained the that since 2001, over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been confined there for human organ trading, and that their bodies were cremated to eliminate evidence. Dr. Li especially stressed that Sujiatun concentration camp is simply one of the many concentration camps in China that were established exclusively for the incarceration and killing of Falun Gong practitioners, and that the real situation is far more serious than what has been reported in the media. This horrendous atrocity is only the tip of the iceberg of the Chinese Communist regime's genocidal campaign against Falun Gong over the past seven years. This incident has further proved the intrinsic evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

He added, "After learning about the Chinese Communist regime's crimes, many Finns were shocked, and they hoped that the government would take action immediately. As the Chinese regime has the capability of employing its entire national propaganda machine to deceive people, it is necessary and urgent to set up an internationally independent investigation task force to conduct an impartial probe into all the forced labor camps and concentration camps incarcerating Falun Gong practitioners. We should learn from the history of Nazi atrocities and take action as soon as possible so as to put an end to the brutal killing and prevent history from repeating itself."

The parliamentarians took note of the information provided by the practitioners. Ms. Janine Hasenson said that the European Union has long been concerned about China's human right issues, and she thought that the Chinese regime would surely deny the Sujiatun concentration camp incident altogether, but it is imperative to bring up this issue openly. She also hoped that the Chinese people will be able to break through the Chinese regime's information blockade to understand the facts about this incident.

Dr. Li also mentioned that many Chinese people have come to understand the Chinese Communist regime's evil nature and started to awaken after reading the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and that more than nine million people have publicly declared their withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organizations so far.

Another two practitioners explained the facts about the Chinese regime's cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The talk lasted for one and a half hours. Before the meeting was wrapped up, the participants agreed to keep in touch so as to communicate with each other as more information becomes available.

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 "If you keep silent before this massacre, what will you say when the truth is fully revealed?" This is from the speech of Mr. Hou Nian-chu from the Taiwan Association for Rescuing Falun Gong Practitioners.

Since the exposure of the CCP's atrocities of live organ removal in Sujiatun Concentration Camp, it has transferred imprisoned practitioners and conducted large scale killings to destroy eyewitnesses. People from nine countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region conducted 24-hour hunger strikes to call on every government, organization and media to initiate an investigation of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in all labor camps, prisons and locations imprisoning practitioners in China.

Practitioners hold 24-hour hunger strike on the square in front of the Changhua County Government and hold candlelight vigil

The event was initiated by practitioners from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, and Macao. In Taiwan, it was hosted by the Taiwan Falun Dafa Association and the Association for Rescuing Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners. On April 15 and 16, 2006, a press conference was held in front of the Changhua Train Station. A 24-hour hunger strike and candlelight vigil were held on the square in front of the Changhua County Government. A march was held on March 16.

The participants of the press conference included Jiang Chao-yi, member of the Legislative Committee, Ms. Chong, director of the Service Center for Quitting the CCP, director of the Global Coalition of Quitting the CCP and Economics Professor Chen Yu-cheng, dozens of hunger strikers and Falun Gong practitioners. The atmosphere was solemn and sorrowful.

Reenactments expose the CCP's crimes in removing organs from living practitioners

Mr. Hou Nian-chu said, "After the exposure of the CCP's live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in concentration camps, some people could not believe it. Actually, under the CCP's blockage of information, a witness disclosed the live organ removal specifically. A veteran military doctor also provided similar testimony."

Ms. Chong from Tunghai University condemned the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and pointed out that the CCP's labor camps imprisoned pregnant practitioners. Some of them were forced to have abortions or were tortured to death.

Ms. Chong reminded people, "Sixty years ago, the Nazis murdered Jews on a huge scale. Today the CCP is persecuting Chinese people. Living people are dissected for organs for profit. However, the evil cannot run rampant forever."

Doctor Chen explained the facts to people around him after he learned about the atrocities in Sujiatun. His friend is studying medicine in mainland China. After hearing about the facts, his friend said that he would never introduce patients to China to receive organ transplants. Doctor Chen sent proposals to all doctors associations in Taiwan he could reach and called on doctors not to go to China to conduct organ transplantation. The Taiwan Medical Ethics Committee of the Department of Health passed a resolution on April 12 that if any doctor participates in any form of organ transplantation in China, he is violating the code of ethics.

Mr. Jiang Shao-yi, member of the Legislative Committee, said that more people would be killed if CCP regime stayed in power longer. He saluted Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death by the CCP and expressed admiration for the humanitarian work of the practitioners.

Representative Gu Jin-nan of the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group condemned the CCP's crimes from the point of law. Based on UN human rights covenants, the CCP's persecution is a form of genocide and constitutes severe human rights violations.

Qiu Tian-hsi from the Taiwan Falun Dafa Association called on the international community to investigate the organ trade in the CCP's labor camps. The investigation should be conducted by the 'Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)' founded by the Falun Dafa Association and the Clearwisdom website. A joint team of the committee and related international organizations, state agencies and media should go to China to conduct an independent, direct, interference-free investigation to collect evidence, and comprehensively search for the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong.

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