Aug 23 2006

You've heard this one: a man walks into a bar in Mexico and meets a beautiful girl.

A couple of drinks, some flirtatious conversation and the next thing he knows, he's lying in some alley with a six-inch crude stitching job across his abdomen.

Sounds too exaggerated to be true. Much like the accusation that China is harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners and selling them to the highest bidders.

But David Kilgour, a former Crown prosecutor in Manitoba, MP of 26 years and Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific in 2002 and 2003, maintains he's uncovered evidence that this is not the fiction of some gothic horror film.

In his recently released report, Kilgour includes evidence from former prisoners who said they saw Falun Gong practitioners being kept as a live human organ bank, the former wife of a surgeon [the surgeon is the ex-husband of the woman witness] alleged to have removed 2,000 corneas from involuntary victims, and live interviews between hospital staff and an undercover organ buyer.

By his calculations 41,000 transplants were unaccounted for in 2000 - meaning 41,000 transplants were performed, but no records of the donors exist.

As one interviewer in Australia put it: either this is a new form of evil or it's an incredibly sophisticated hoax that makes the Hitler Diaries seem simplistic.

At the very least, given Kilgour's reputation and stature, this report deserves closer investigation by the United Nations.

He has called upon Manfred Novak, the UN's rapporteur on torture (who knew such an office existed?) to investigate. Kilgour is also asking Amnesty International to look into the matter.

After all, Kilgour says, in 1943 no one believed reports of the atrocities being committed in Germany's gas chambers.

If the allegations are true, the practice must be stopped. If they are false, the Chinese government deserves to be exonerated of these serious charges.

…

http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=48&id=713626&more=