Toronto Sun, Canada: Organ ‘horror’ alleged
“The very horror makes us reel back in disbelief,” the report says. “But that disbelief does not mean that the allegations are untrue.”
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“The very horror makes us reel back in disbelief,” the report says. “But that disbelief does not mean that the allegations are untrue.”
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.
Father Caruana wrote to John Howard prior to the prime minister’s visit to China and expressed his concerns. “Falun Gong practitioners in China are being arrested, tortured and harvested for human organs, then left to die,” Father Caruna said.
A Manly businesswoman whose mother who has been detained by Chinese authorities for allegedly publishing and distributing Falun Gong material has appealed to Prime Minister John Howard for support.
Falun Gong practitioners in the Campbelltown area have lobbied local tiers of government in a bid to highlight alleged atrocities against their fellow members in China.
Julie Chan said there is also evidence that Australians are going to China for organ transplants, quoting Dr. Scott Campbell, from the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, who said he knew of “half a dozen” patients who had been there and there was “bound to be significantly more across the country.”
Perth man Paul Krumins, who has experience in plastination, which replaces body fluids and tissue with resin, visited the exhibition in Sydney and was surprised that almost all the bodies were of young men, showing no obvious cause of death.
A vice-president of the European Parliament returned last week from a three day investigation into human rights abuses in mainland China.
Amnesty International says there are more than 300,000 practitioners in 36 labour camps where more than 3000 practitioners have been tortured to death since 1999. The pair have official figures that there were 78 organ transplants in China between 1991 and 1999. This increased to 254 in 2000, to 486 in 2001 and there have been 3000 transplants since 2003.
A local protest against China’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners have been raising a petition to send a message to our politicians.