Posted on 07/10/2006 9:01:54 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Team says China harvests Falun Gong organs
Thu Jul 6, 3:34 PM ET
A respected Canadian human rights lawyer and a former Canadian cabinet member lent their weight on Thursday to charges that China has been killing Falun Gong dissidents so it can use their organs.
The two men -- lawyer David Matas, and David Kilgour, former secretary of state for Asia and the Pacific -- spent two months investigating the accusations, which China has regularly denied.
"It is simply inescapable that this is going on," Kilgour told reporters as he and Matas released their findings.
They provided transcripts of phone calls placed in Chinese to detention centers and organ transplant clinics in which officials said organs from Falun Gong practitioners could be made available for speedy use.
Some of the calls were placed on behalf of the Falun Gong by people inquiring about whether they could get organ transplants. Matas and Kilgour said they had carefully examined phone records and had sat with certified Mandarin translators as they listened to the taped conversations.
They also conducted interviews of their own and investigated government records and other evidence.
"Believe me, I used to be a prosecutor. I knew there would be cynicism and I did my utmost to make sure that everything was satisfactorily and properly and ethically done," Kilgour said.
One call, made on June 8, was to a Mr. Li in the Mishan City Detention Center in Heilongjiang province, according to the transcript.
"Do you have Falun Gong (organ) suppliers?" Li was asked.
"We used to have, yes," he replied.
"What about now?"
"Yes," Li replied.
"Can we come to select, or you provide directly to us?"
"We provide them to you," Li said, adding that price would be discussed when the caller arrived. He said he had "quite a few" Falun Gong males under age 40 from whom organs could be taken.
Kilgour released the transcript of an interview he conducted with a woman who said her former husband, a surgeon, had taken corneas from 2,000 people over two years. She said the victims would first be given an injection that would cause heart failure.
China has banned Falun Gong, a spiritual group, since 1999. It rejects the organ harvesting accusations.
Matas said the practice amounted to a crime against humanity. "Our findings are shocking. To us, this is a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet," he said.
He said that if China rejects the findings it should make sure hospitals keep records of the source of each transplant that would be available for inspection by human rights officials.
Ping!
Only difference between that and cannibalism is the profit margins...
The face of evil, right there for all to witness.
Modern reincarnation of Chinese cannibalism. China has a long history of underground subculture of cannibalism.
This is sick.
The govt should immediately ban any commerce between this country and China involving human organs.
I heard an Australian transplant specialist on the radio say that this was well known in the medical community and for $150,000 you get a heart and $180,000 for lungs. You can even pick your living "donor" like choosing crays in a restaurant fish tank. I guess this is what happens in a secular "worker's paradise" the libs dream of creating in the US.
If you are an elite in a liberal country, you have unlimited supply of fresh organs. Great to be somebody like Chomsky in lib. land.:)
State Department will mainly ignore this.
Organ Harvesting Ping.
Good point!
Thanks for the ping.
i don't think these guys ever went to china, so basically they're asking falun gong for "facts" - again, like Epoch Times, i don't trust them. You can't investigate it by sitting in some cube in Canada interviewing so called victims.
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