BODY PARTS FROM CHINA, HUMAN RIGHTS NOW!
Falun Gong body parts
I seriously don’t know why the Chinese government hate Falun Gong (and Tibet) so bloody much. Perhaps we should put them in a room with a room full of suburban Sunday Christians. But take some rich cowboys from Alberta to reap the benefits. Yay, Alberta! From Religion News Blog à la the Edmonton Sun:
An unknown number of wealthy Albertans have travelled to China to buy vital organs harvested from executed devotees of the outlawed Falun Gong movement, says former Edmonton MP David Kilgour.
And he wants the crimes against humanity to stop.
“There’s no doubt people are going from Edmonton and Calgary to China to get new kidneys or new livers,” Kilgour told the Sun yesterday.
He said many of the organs sell for up to $70,000.
“Only foreigners in places like Alberta can afford to pay for them.”
Kilgour, former secretary of state for the Asia-Pacific region, says he has travelled to more than 30 countries while investigating allegations that an underground network of Chinese surgeons, nurses and hospital administration staff are harvesting organs for sale.
“We call it a form of inhumanity,” he said.
Kilgour co-wrote a report on the alleged atrocities last summer with Winnipeg human rights lawyer David Matas.
The two, who spoke at a U of A forum last night on China’s illicit organ harvesting and transplant tourism industry, are set to release a revised report next week in Ottawa.
The new report reveals “a lot more proof” that this practice, which began about mid-2001, is still going on, Kilgour said.
The former Liberal cabinet minister said Albertans need to know that if they’re going to China for an organ transplant, the chances are the organ was taken from a Falun Gong practitioner who was jailed for his or her beliefs.
“These are not executed criminals,” Kilgour said.
Meanwhile, local devotees of Falun Gong are awaiting the results of a judicial review.
Yesterday, Matas and colleague Shirish Chotalia contested a Crown prosecutor’s decision to not proceed with charges against a group of Chinese diplomats.
The lawyers contend anti-Falun Gong booklets distributed in June 2004 by the Chinese consulate in Calgary constituted hate propaganda.
A written decision is expected within the next few months.
Edmonton Sun, via CNEWS, Canada
Jan. 26, 2007
Cary Castagna
Posted by Fell at 16:04
6 comments:
bobby fletcher said…
Don, if you don’t know why FLG was banned in China, perhaps you should check out this blog:
falungonginfo.org
And I don’t know why David Kilgour hates China so much. The FLG propaganda he’s promoting has been discredited by multiple undercover investigation inside China.
US government:
http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf (section CRS-7)
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html
Chinese dissident:
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060806_1.htm
http://www.cicus.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=6492
The hospital Falun Gong accused is partly owned by a Malaysian health care company and subject to oversight beyond Chinese authority:
http://crc.gov.my/clinicalTrial/documents/Proposal/TCM_Stroke%20TrialProtocol%20synopsis.pdf (page 3)
27/1/07
http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/atrocities.htm (NOTE: The reader sent the link and it contains horrible graphic images. I was disappointed that the site would not open it’s pages, but the link in theis comment works. It’s about U.S. supporting terror in Israel that leads to innocent lives being lost. I wish the reader would have said more. I am against all this killing and mayhemn and am well aware of US atrocities. It is time the world woke up to it’s common plight, the environmental catastrophe that is upon us, and stop supporting terror, whether it be Islamic terror, Christian terror, or good old fashioned state sponsored terror. Terror is what terror is, terror, designed to stop people from having a voice in their own self determination. Killing in and of itself is absolutely wrong. There are no good killers, China, US, Russia, North Korea, Palestine, Syria, Israel, Columbia; terror is terror. As long as we all must fight terror to be able to stand in the street with a voice, we will be doomed to the greater threat of extinction by the global catastrophe that is upon us all. The Environment that has been exploited by all of these countries and the people within who are vying for political power and control over these precious resources. When a man has no water, he will lay down his arms. What will it take to live in peace?