The Taiwanese Vice President, Ms. Annette Lu, met the two Canadian independent investigators, Mr. David Kilgour and Mr. David Matas, on October 13, 2006 and paid close attention to the report concerning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organ harvesting from living people.
Former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour and international human rights attorney David Matas gave a talk and answered questions about their investigative report on organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to a group of reporters, politicians, experts and scholars at the Newsmaker Breakfast at the National Press Club of Canada.
After successfully visiting Canberra and Sydney and holding seminars there, on August 21, 2006, Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, and David Kilgour, one of the two authors of the “Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China” traveled to Melbourne, their third stop in Australia.
Our report has seventeen different recommendations. Virtually no precaution one can imagine to prevent the harvesting of organs of Falun Gong practitioners in China is currently being taken. All these precautions should be put in place.
Chinese authorities kill political prisoners and harvest their healthy body parts for use in organ transplants, two Canadian jurists have [concluded]. When will Australia protest?
A 45-page investigative report was released today in North America that addresses allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong detainees. Coauthored by former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour and human rights attorney David Matas, the report draws “the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true.”
Hon. Danby Questions, Member of Australian Parliament, recently questioned the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding organ harvest from living people in China. Below are the questions.
Mr. Cohen condemned the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and called on the world not to be a bystanders to another genocide.
On the issue of gathering evidence, I can disclose an outline of the government’s process that I had encountered, in the hopes that relevant organizations can learn tips from it. Due to safety reasons, I still cannot disclose the entire process. Here I will describe parts of the process.
Witness Annie said, “It is agonizing to recall the past. The organs removed from a living human being fetch a much higher price than from a dead body. After the live organ removal, some Falun Gong practitioners were still alive and breathing, but some of their bodies were directly thrown into the crematory oven. No trace of their bodies is left. Some families had no idea the organs had been removed.
