 Mr. Wang Xiaohua provides testimony with his own experience that CCP doctors conduct physical examination of Falun Gong practitioners in detention |
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After near half a year's continuous investigation, Canadian investigators Mr. David Matas and Mr. David Kilgour have more evidence to support the allegation of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. On the morning of January 31, the two investigators released their revised report, "Bloody Harvest - Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China". The revised report expanded the previous 18 considerations to 33.
The revised report contains 16 new items of proof and disproof, including interviewing organ recipients, the large number of practitioners tortured to death or missing, large-scale construction of organ transplantation centers in China after the persecution, profit-making by China's military and medical system, the difference in ethics and law between China and other countries, the development of organ transplantation technology, and the large numbers of unidentified Falun Gong practitioners in detention.
Mr. Wang Xiaohua provides testimony with his own experience that CCP doctors conduct physical examination of Falun Gong practitioners in detention |
 Mr. David Kilgour and Mr. David Matas release their revised report, which further confirms the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners |
Organ
transplantation: Advances in transplant surgery provide new means for
old cadres
The report states, "More advanced techniques in
transplant
surgery do not mean a more advanced Chinese political system. The
Chinese Communist
system remains. Developments in transplant surgery in
In their recent visits to 30 countries, the two
investigators interviewed many organ recipients. "When we were in Asia
promoting our report, we met a man who in 2003 flew to
"The survival period for a kidney [after harvesting]
is between 24-48 hours and a liver about 12
hours. The presence of a large bank of living kidney-liver
‘donors' must be the
only way China's transplant centres can assure such short waits to
customers.
The astonishingly short waiting times advertised for perfectly-matched
organs
would suggest the existence of a large bank of live prospective
'donors'."
The report stated that the source of 41,500 transplants
for the six-year period from 2000 to 2005 is unexplained. The report
inferred
that the organs came from Falun Gong practitioners. The new report
contains evidence
including admissions of doctors (during telephone investigation) that
the
organs are from Falun Gong practitioners, organs missing from corpses
of
practitioners tortured to death, the fact that practitioners often do
not
disclose their names in detention (to prevent the CCP's persecution and
implication of their family members and work units), the large number
of
practitioners missing, and family members not being allowed to see the
corpses
of practitioners tortured to death. Last November, Vice Minister of
Health
Huang Jiefu admitted that death-row prisoners were the source of organ
transplants. The revised report pointed out, "The Falun Gong
constitutes a
prison population who the Chinese authorities vilify, dehumanize,
depersonalize, marginalize even more than executed prisoners sentenced
to death
for criminal offences."
Organ
transplantation and huge profit for military and health systems
The report stated, "The sale of organs became for
hospitals a source of funding, a way to keep their doors open, and a
means by
which other health services could be provided to the community.
There is, for instance, the
‘Our
gross income in 2003 was 16,070,000 yuan. From January to
June of 2004
income was 13,570,000 yuan. This year (2004) there is a
chance to break
through 30,000,000 yuan.'
Military involvement in organ harvesting extends into
civilian hospitals. Recipients
often tell us that, even when they receive transplants in
civilian hospitals, those
conducting the operation are military personnel."
The report pointed out that organ transplant surgeons
in
The report also pointed out that many countries are
selling anti-rejection drugs related to organ transplantation surgeries
performed in
Response of Chinese
Government
The report uses the response of the Chinese government
as
a consideration: "The Government of China has responded to the first
version of
our report in an unpersuasive way. Mostly, the responses have been
attacks on
the Falun Gong. The fact that the Government of China would make
attacks on
Falun Gong the focus of their responses to our report reinforces the
analysis
of the report. It is these sorts of attacks which, in
Witness Wang Xiaohua from
Mr. Wang was imprisoned several times for persisting in
his belief in Falun Gong. He and other practitioners were tortured
physically
and mentally in prison, but received comprehensive health examinations
in
January 2002.
Public should be
warned not to receive organ transplants in
The two investigators gave an example showing that the
cases of organ transplantation recipients in
The total number of organ transplantation in
The report includes recommendations to foreign
governments. The recommendations include:
1. Foreign states should enact extra-territorial
legislation penalizing participation in organ harvesting without
consent.
3. Any person known to be involved in trafficking in
the
organs of prisoners in
4. Until
i) foreign governments should not issue visas to
doctors
from
travel abroad for the purpose of training in organ or
bodily tissue transplantation,
ii) foreign medical transplant personnel should not
travel
to
or collaboration in transplant surgery,
iii) contributions to scholarly journals on transplant
research drawn from the
Chinese experience should be rejected,
iv) medical professionals abroad should actively
discourage their patients from
travelling to
v) pharmaceutical companies should not export
anti-rejection drugs or any
other drugs solely used in transplantation surgery to
vi) foreign states should ban the export of
anti-rejection
drugs or any other
drugs solely used in transplantation surgery to
5. The onus should be on foreign professionals to
determine beyond any reasonable doubt that the source of organ donation
in
6. The medical profession in every foreign country
should
set up a voluntary
reporting system to accumulate aggregate data about
patients who have travelled to
7. Foreign states should issue travel advisories
warning
its population that organ
transplants in
Using Olympic Games
as a lever to stop live organ harvesting
In receiving media interviews, Mr. Kilgour said that
International Olympic Committee, each government, sponsor, and athlete
should
ask themselves, "Should we interact with a government committing such a
crime
of live organ removal?"
In such a way, pressure will be formed to stop the
crime. He suggested using the Olympic games as a lever to exert
pressure on the
CCP to stop the crime.
Mr. Kilgour indicated that the CCP's response to the
report was unwise and that it would be better for the CCP to consider
stopping
the persecution of Falun Gong. Otherwise, the facts will be exposed
before the
people throughout the world during the 2008 Olympic Games in
Mr. Kilgour was confident about the investigation
report
during the interview. He called for an end to these crimes against
humanity. He
said, "Falun Gong is respected in all 69 of the 70 countries in which
it
exists. In only one of 70 countries, practitioners are persecuted and
killed
for their organs, and that's
Since the atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit were exposed to the public in March 2006, the international community have paid great attention to and condemned it. Two Canadian independent investigators, former Canadian MP and Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas, released their detailed investigative report in July 2006 after two months' investigation. Their investigation verified this allegation. On January 25 to 26, 2007, at the invitation of Alberta Falun Dafa Association in Canada, David Kilgour, David Matas, and the director of the Association for Asia Research Mr. Erping Zhang held two forums in Edmonton and Calgary. They held a discussion and exchanged opinions with the attendees on the CCP's harvesting and selling organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, human rights issues in China and other aspects. All attendees were shocked at the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
Forum in Calgary
David Kilgour speaks at the forum in Edmonton
According to David Kilgour, the forum themed "Human Rights, Rule of Law, Justice and Illicit Organ Snatching and Transplant Crimes in China," is one part of David Matas' and his global speech tour on "Illicit Organ Snatching and Transplant Crimes in China." At present, Matas and Kilgour have traveled to four continents, including countries and regions, such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Swiss United Nations Human Rights Commission and other places to present their reports. The audience and the media have given them positive responses. Many government officials have expressed serious concerns to the CCP officials regarding harvesting organs of living Falun Gong practitioners that is happening in China.
At the forum, Mr. Erping Zhang gave a speech first. He talked about the current situation of the CCP regime undermining traditional culture and persecuting groups of different beliefs. He introduced to the audience the CCP's suppression, damage and destruction of religious beliefs and traditional culture in the past several dozen years. Since the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, many cultivators have died as a result of the persecution. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Xin was one of those who have died as a result of the persecution for appealing for Falun Gong. The persecution is still going on. As it is investigated, organs of Falun Gong practitioners were harvested while they were still alive. The police, public security, and the military all have participated in the organ trafficking. The CCP's constitution claims that people enjoy freedom of belief, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. But the actual situation is not so. If you exercise these freedoms, you will meet with trouble.
Matas analyzed the CCP's constitution and legal system and expressed that the CCP is actually a one party dictatorship. He further pointed out that in mainland China, it is an indisputable fact that there are a large number of Falun Gong practitioners whose organs have been harvested while they were still alive. Since the release of the "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong.
Practitioners in China" in July last year, during the following six months, they have done further evidence collection work, and the new investigative report will be released at the end of January. Matas also pointed out that the Chinese government's recent claim that "a large number of organs are from executed prisoners" is not valid. He found that the annual number of executed prisoners is very stable, but it is unexplainable that the number of organ transplants has been soared since the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
Mr. Liu who is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary exposed the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong with his own experience. Before arriving in Canada in 2005, he had been arrested and detained numerous times by the CCP police and had to suspend his schooling. Physical torture and mental torment put him in an endless painful situation, as it continues to today. He said that Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally arrested and detained by the CCP do not have any life guarantee at all. He particularly pointed out that while being illegally incarcerated in prisons, all Falun Gong practitioners are forced to have a comprehensive physical check-up, including blood types, conditions of all vital organs and so on. After the exposure of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, he came to understand that Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally incarcerated have been taken as a bank of live organs. He still remembered some Falun Gong practitioners whom he had met in detention centers. They had gone to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. They only wanted to tell their experiences of physical and mental benefits after practicing Falun Gong, but the police arrested, detained, and beat them. The practitioners firmly refused to tell the police their names and home addresses (they didn't want to implicate their relatives and friends into the CCP's persecution). Later, some practitioners disappeared. It was said that they were sent to specially-built concentration camps, which are the CCP's banks of organs for transplantation. Mr. Liu's wife is still illegally incarcerated in a prison in Beijing. Since he came to Canada, Mr. Liu has been unable to directly contact her for a long time. Mr. Liu's personal experience touched many people at the forum. Many people extended regards to him after the forum and wished him to be reunited with his family soon.
More than a hundred people attended the forums held at the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. These people included provincial MLAs, democrats, university teachers and students, researchers from hospitals and some people who are concerned about the human rights issues in China. They also had a discussion with speakers on CCP's human rights issues, stopping the persecution of Falun Gong, boycotting going to the mainland China for organ transplants and some other issues.
After the forums, MLA of Alberta Bharat Agnihotri said while having an interview with reporters that it was the first time for him to hear that organs of Falun Gong practitioners have been harvested while they were still alive. It is horrifying. He thought that Falun Gong is good for health, governments should support and promote it. He said that stopping the persecution is not only a matter of the federal government, as international citizens, we are all responsible to speak out, and the governments should also use diplomatic means to help stop the crimes.
When talking about the issue that some Canadians are concerned that
human
rights diplomacy may affect trade with China, he said he did not worry
about the
conflict between human rights and trade. He would like to talk about
this matter
(the CCP's live organ harvesting) with other MLAs, and help Falun Gong
student
groups make reports or hold forums for provincial MLAs.
A public judicial review of hate crimes perpetrated by Chinese Consulate officials in Calgary was presented on January 25, 2007, at Alberta High Court, Calgary. Regarding the decision made earlier by the Attorney General of Alberta that the charge against Chinese Consulate officials for disseminating hate propaganda was not valid, renowned international human rights lawyer David Matas and Ms. Shirish Chotolia submitted a joint appeal. Falun Gong spokesperson Zhang Erping said that he believed that the Canadian government and the judge would handle this case lawfully.
In June 2004, an Edmonton Falun Gong practitioner witnessed two officials from the Calgary Chinese Consulate handing out the propaganda materials hostile to Falun Gong at a local conference. He reported to the police, who conducted an investigation on the materials. On June 23, 2005, after a year of investigation, the police finally submitted an investigation report to the Department of Justice and confirmed that the booklets handed out by the Calgary Chinese Consulate were hostile propaganda. This has been deemed illegal.
Hate crime laws fall under Canada's Criminal Code and mainly refer to systematically spreading certain speeches, rumors, or selective information to harm groups divided according to race, complexion, religion or ethnicity. Constable Stephen Camp of the Hate Crimes Unit of the Edmonton Police said that "these booklets constitute a breach of the hate crime law under Section 319.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, the law banning the 'willful promotion of hatred' against an 'identifiable group.'" The materials, largely distributed by the Chinese Consulate officials, are full of information slandering Falun Gong.
International human rights lawyer David Matas said: "Canada should not allow itself to become a platform for global promotion of hatred. What is happening in Edmonton is happening all over the world where China has a Embassy or Consulate, and every police service should react in the way Edmonton police have acted to stop hate against Falun Gong."
Constable Camp said, "The Chinese government is defaming and persecuting members of Falun Gong across the country [Canada]. Alberta could be the first province to lead the way, to say enough is enough!"
Matas pointed out that Constable Camp's investigation report is unprecedented in Canada. The police had never before conducted such an investigation of a foreign consulate in Canada. "Even though the Edmonton police confirmed through an investigation that the Chinese Consulate was spreading hostile propaganda, the Alberta judge made the judgment to dismiss the charge. I think it is not right. Currently, we are waiting for the decision from the High Court. If they sustain the original judgment, we will continue to appeal to the court." He hoped that the court would reach a verdict that recognized that "the decision of the judge of Alberta does not conform to the facts and that the charge against the Chinese Consulate officials is valid." The High Court's verdict on the hate propaganda case is very important, and he hoped to stop the slander of Falun Gong within Canada.
Falun Gong spokesman Zhang Erping said, "I believe the Canadian
government and the judge will deal with this case lawfully. It is not
only a
matter of judging lawfully, but also a matter of people from different
countries
being able to bravely stand up and stop the propaganda of an evil
regime
unscrupulously spreading its lies around the world."
On January 31, 2007, practitioners in Malaysia went to the Prime Minister's office to call for the the government's attention to the CCP's atrocity of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They also submitted copies of the fourth batch of petition signatures. The practitioners obtained more than 4,000 signatures this time. They have obtained a total of more than 10,000 signatures from the Malaysian public to call for an end to the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Practitioners in Malaysia hold a rally in front of the Prime Minister's office to call for attention to CCP's atrocity of organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners.
The practitioners called on the Malaysian government in particular to help stop the persecution. Last December, the Ministry of Health indicated an intent to revise rules on organ transplantation to prohibit the organ trade. The practitioners called on the government to revise the rules to prevent Malaysian people from receiving organs from unknown sources in China. They indicated that the Malaysian government should pay attention to the voice of those 10,000 people and take measures to help stop the CCP's atrocities.
The rally started at 10:30 a.m. After submitting a report and a copy of the signatures, the practitioners held banners condemning the CCP's live organ removal. The banners caught the attention of police and government officials, who stopped to read them. A reporter from the Malaysian newspaper Kosmo came especially to cover the event after hearing about it. After listening to practitioners' explanation, the reporter became very understanding and asked for contact information and to be notified in the future for similar activities.
The signatures were collected on a petition that calls on the World Health Organization and International Olympic Committee to investigate the CCP's atrocity of live organ removal. In addition, the practitioners also sent copies of the signatures to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and strongly requested their attention to this issue to help stop the persecution.
The signatures were collection all over Malaysia. With their
signatures,
kind-hearted people expressed their wish for a timely end to the
persecution to
the Malaysian government and international organizations.