Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs have reiterated their previous findings on China’s organ harvesting. Once again, they requested the Chinese government to fully explain the allegation of taking vital organs from Falun Gong practitioners and the source of organs for the sudden increase in organ transplants that has been going on in China since the year 2000.
Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) introduced Bill C-500, a Private Member’s Bill that would address the trafficking of human organs and other body parts.
The Canadians supervised calls to several hospitals by Mandarin speakers purporting to be acting for patients seeking urgent transplants, getting some doctors and officials to admit taking organs from young and healthy Falun Gong prisoners.
Member of CIPFG, Peter Westmore, national president of the National Civic Council, said during a recent interview that China must open its doors and allow the international community to conduct independent investigations.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) held the Health Ministers Conference on June 6, 2007, in Sydney. Falun Gong practitioners from Australia held a press conference outside the conference hall and hosted an activity titled ” Great Wall of Facts” to expose the CCP’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.
When the CCP’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners were exposed, the international community was shocked. Last October, Australian activists established the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) Australia Chapter. Currently, the group has drawn more than 80 members including senators Andrew Bartlett, Kerry Nettle and Barnaby Joyce and MP Chris Bowen.
American Transplant Congress 2007 is being held in San Francisco from May 5 to 9. Many attendees expressed that they learned about the CCP’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners from the organ transplant conference held in Boston. Many of them signed their names to call for the end of the organ harvesting in China.
Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area took the opportunity to tell the attendees the facts about Falun Gong, hoping that they would have an opportunity to learn about the persecution practitioners have been suffering, and the inhuman harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. Many doctors signed the petition to condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crime of harvesting organs from living people.
From the Matas-Kilgour report: “The Organ Transplant Center of the Armed Police General Hospital in Beijing boldly states: ‘Our Organ Transplant Center is our main department for making money. This year (2004) there is a chance to break through 30,000,000 yuan (about $3.8 million U.S.).’ ”
After nearly six months of continuous investigation, Canadian investigators Mr. David Matas and Mr. David Kilgour have more evidence to support the allegation of the Chinese Communist Party’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
