By Minghui reporter Ying Zi
International |
The Group
to Investigate the CCP's Harvesting Organs from Live Falun Gong Practitioners,
which consists of the former director of the Asian Pacific Division of Canada's
Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mr. David Kilgour and well-known international human
rights attorney Mr. David Matas, wrote to the Chinese Embassy in Canada, requesting
a meeting with Chinese Ambassador, Lu Shumin. The Investigation Group wishes to
conduct an independent investigation in China this month. The group will publish
its investigation report based on the collected evidence soon.
The
Group requests an independent investigation without the CCP's control
Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas wrote to the Chinese Embassy on June 2.
In their letter, they said that they hoped to visit China in June to investigate
the CCP's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, which has
resulted in the death of many practitioners.
They
stated that it is proper to request a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador and
other Chinese government officials before they applied for visas to visit China.
In their meeting, they would like to discuss with the ambassador about this visit
and the conditions of their investigation in China.
Mr.
Matas emphasized that they were requesting an independent investigation free of
the CCP's manipulations. Mr. Matas said that the investigation would be meaningless
if the CCP decides who they could meet or talk to.
Mr.
Matas hoped that when they are in China, they will have the freedom to investigate
the issues directly, instead of receiving evidence provided by the CCP.
The coordinator of “The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution
of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)” in Canada, Mr. Yang Kaiwen said during an interview
that, in order to cover up the truth of persecution and deceive the international
community, the CCP always makes some arrangements before the international investigation
groups come. The CCP arranges the itineraries and interviewees for the group.
The CCP also forces the interviewees to answer the questions in a way that the
CCP pre-arranged.
According to the Minghui/Clearwisdom
website, on
2004
Forced Labor Camp in Beijing for an investigation. As if facing a formidable foe,
the camp authorities took all of the imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners inside
and confined them in a single area. They did not allow the practitioners to go
outdoors nor require them to work, either. To set up a so-called “free interview”
for the international investigation team, Group 3 arranged for Pan Jun, a graduate
from the Legal and Law University, and Mu Yuan, a graduate of Beijing University
of Technology, to answer the visitors' questions. Both of these practitioners
had been brainwashed and put through multiple rehearsals in advance. They were
also warned that they would have to “take responsibility” if they went off track.
Falun Gong practitioners Zhao Ming and Chen Gang who were illegally
imprisoned in Tuanhe Labor Camp, testified that the guards in Tuanhe Labor Camp
always force Falun Gong practitioners to stand straight up, sit without moving,
bow down for long periods of time, or run in the yard. They also lock practitioners
on the bed for a long time or confine practitioners in the rooms where people
boil water, in the summer time. The purpose of all the tortures that the guards
applied to practitioners is to break down practitioners' will, so they use
extreme methods. Falun Gong practitioners who were beaten or not allowed to sleep,
or threatened, often develop white hair, weight loss, muscle pain, organs dysfunction,
depression, and memory loss. More importantly, although the physical pain due
to the torture will often abate as time goes by, the mental and spiritual injuries
will influence one's life for a long time.
Mr.
Yang Kaiwen used the investigation by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture,
Mr. Manfred Nowak as an example. He said that the CCP interfered with the investigation
badly. They spied on and monitored the investigators. They also made trouble with
the investigators' plan. Moreover, they threatened the interviewees and witnesses
and their family members. So, it is very important that the investigation groups
can conduct an independent investigation without the CCP's interference.
Publishing the investigating report is the first step of the
complete investigation.
Based on interviews
with witnesses outside of China, and a lot of collected evidences, two investigators
are working on an investigation report. Mr. Matas said that no matter whether
their request is approved or not, they will keep doing their work and finish the
report.
Mr. Yang Kaiwen said that the investigation
by the two investigators is independent. They will draw their own conclusions
based on the evidence they collect. According to the evidence we collected, it
is undeniable that the CCP has been harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners
in labor camps and secret concentration camp. But because it is difficult to conduct
a complete and independent investigation in China, we don't know exactly
the degree and scale of the persecution.
Mr.
Yang said that publishing the investigation report is the first step in the complete
investigation. The next steps include coordinating with other investigation groups,
such as The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG),
requesting to visit China, and conducting a complete investigation of all the
labor camps and detention centers in China, where Falun Gong practitioners are
illegally imprisoned.
Posting date: 16/June/2006
Original
article date: 14/June/2006
Category: World
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