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In 2006, the ''[[Epoch Times]]'' alleged that the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and its agencies, including the [[People's Liberation Army]], had been conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living [[Falun Gong]] practitioners. It alleged that practitioners detained in [[Persecution_of_Falun_Gong#Reeducation_through_labor|forced labour]] camps, hospital basements, or prisons, are blood and urine tested, and their information stored on computer databases. When an organ is required, they are injected with potassium to stop the heart, their organs removed, and their bodies incinerated. |
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Allegations first appeared in the ''Epoch Times'' in March 2006. According to two individuals claiming they were witnesses, internal organs had been harvested at the Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital, [[Sujiatun]], [[Liaoning]] province, and sold, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. They alleged that no prisoner came out alive; six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Chinese authorities immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the "Sujiatun concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. The [[United States Department of State]] investigated the site on two occasions, first unannounced, then later upon invitation, found no evidence to support the allegations.<ref name=state>[http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=dhr/hr-latest.html%20 U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China], U.S. State Department, April 16, 2006</ref><ref>http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf Lum, Thomas CRS Report page CRS-7 detailing US embassy investigations</ref> Chinese dissident and Executive Director of the [[Laogai Research Foundation]], [[Harry Wu]], having sent his own investigators to the site, was unable to substantiate the claims, and believes the reports were fabricated.<ref name=challenge>[http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=2642 Harry Wu challenges Falun Gong organ harvesting claims], South China Morning Post, September 8, 2006</ref> |
Allegations first appeared in the ''Epoch Times'' in March 2006. According to two individuals claiming they were witnesses, internal organs had been harvested at the Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital, [[Sujiatun]], [[Liaoning]] province, and sold, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. They alleged that no prisoner came out alive; six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Chinese authorities immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the "Sujiatun concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. The [[United States Department of State]] investigated the site on two occasions, first unannounced, then later upon invitation, found no evidence to support the allegations.<ref name=state>[http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=dhr/hr-latest.html%20 U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China], U.S. State Department, April 16, 2006</ref><ref>http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf Lum, Thomas CRS Report page CRS-7 detailing US embassy investigations</ref> Chinese dissident and Executive Director of the [[Laogai Research Foundation]], [[Harry Wu]], having sent his own investigators to the site, was unable to substantiate the claims, and believes the reports were fabricated.<ref name=challenge>[http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=2642 Harry Wu challenges Falun Gong organ harvesting claims], South China Morning Post, September 8, 2006</ref> |
Revision as of 15:05, 18 January 2008
In 2006, the Epoch Times alleged that the Chinese Communist Party and its agencies, including the People's Liberation Army, had been conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners. It alleged that practitioners detained in forced labour camps, hospital basements, or prisons, are blood and urine tested, and their information stored on computer databases. When an organ is required, they are injected with potassium to stop the heart, their organs removed, and their bodies incinerated.
Allegations first appeared in the Epoch Times in March 2006. According to two individuals claiming they were witnesses, internal organs had been harvested at the Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital, Sujiatun, Liaoning province, and sold, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. They alleged that no prisoner came out alive; six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Chinese authorities immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the "Sujiatun concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. The United States Department of State investigated the site on two occasions, first unannounced, then later upon invitation, found no evidence to support the allegations.[1][2] Chinese dissident and Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation, Harry Wu, having sent his own investigators to the site, was unable to substantiate the claims, and believes the reports were fabricated.[3]
As a result of the Sujiatun relevations, in July 2006, David Kilgour, a former Canadian Secretary of State, and David Matas, a human rights lawyer, conducted an independent investigation on the subject at the behest of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), a U.S.-based, non-profit organization founded by the Falun Dafa Association[4]. Their report concludes that the allegations are founded, stating that Chinese authorities have, since 1999, "put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers, corneas and hearts, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners." While some writers question the conclusion in the report, the authors maintain that the evidence is current, the practice ongoing, and that their report has not met with any substantive refutation.[5] The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.[6] A Congressional Research Service says that the K&M report’s key allegations appear to be inconsistent with the findings of other investigations.[7] Matas and Kilgour updated their report in January 2007 with additional research, which they claimed reinforced their previous conclusion.
First claims: Sujiatun
On March 10 2006, the Epoch Times reported the allegations by a former investigative journalist, who said that six thousand practitioners in an underground compound in Shenyang, Liaoning province - which he referred to as the "Sujiatun Concentration Camp" - were providing a readily available source of transplant organs, sold by doctors and then sent to medical facilities.[8]
On March 17, the Epoch Times published accounts from a second anonymous source with similar allegations and further details about Sujiatun. She allegedly worked in the hospital, and also claimed that Falun Gong practitioners were kept in an underground detention centre. She claimed that many were still alive when their organs were taken, as organs from live bodies are more valuable than organs from cadavers. "After their organs were cut out, some of these people were thrown directly into the crematorium to be burnt."[9]
According to the Washington Times, "Jin Zhong", a journalist seeking political asylum in the United States also claimed knowledge of the harvesting operation. "Jin" alleged that the bodies of prisoners were incinerated in the boiler room of the hospital, and that workers had taken jewelry and watches from the dead and sold them. [10]
On 30 March, a third anonymous informant identified as a senior military doctor in Shenyang military zone, confirmed that "routine organ harvesting" had been taking place at Sujiatun. He alleged that detainees were rapidly transferred to and from other camps by closed freight train on a special route, "handcuffed like rotisserie chickens". The informant also asserted that the hospital in Sujiatun is only one of 36 similar camps all over China.[11]
International response
On Apr 19, 2006, Sky News went undercover with cameras inside Chinese hospitals where nurses and doctors confirmed readily-available organs are taken from prisoners, and that the hospital's abundance of donors is due to its close connections with Chinese security forces. Sky News' Website states:
China has been accused of taking organs from executed prisoners to supply the international transplant market. British surgeons say there is evidence that prisoners are being selected as potential donors before they are killed[12]
On June 13, 2006, Edward McMillan-Scott, vice president of the European Parliament, said he believed that nearly 400 hospitals in China shared the lucrative trade in transplant organs, with websites advertising new kidneys for $60,000.[13]
Some human rights activists, notably Harry Wu, are skeptical of the claims. Wu, known for his investigations of Laogai and for uncovering organ harvesting from executed prisoners, said that the allegations were just hearsay from two witnesses. "No pictures, no witnesses, no paperwork, no detailed information at all, nothing."[14] Wu immediately sent investigators to the Sujiatun scene, but found no trace of the alleged concentration camp.[15] David Kilgour would later contend that after March 9, the whistle was already blown.[16]Some time later, Kilgour and Matas would accuse Wu of bad faith for drawing his conclusions without interviewing the witnesses.[17] Wu maintained that he was denied access to them for interview.[3]
The United States Department of State reported the findings of its investigation in April, stating that U.S. representatives "found no evidence to support allegations... that the site is being used for any function other than as a normal public hospital."[1]
A Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman rejected the claims of organ harvesting as a “lie... not worth refuting.” He also invited reporters to go to Sujiatun to look into the claims.[18]
Kilgor-Matas report
On May 24, 2006, David Kilgour, a former Canadian Cabinet minister, and David Matas, both human rights lawyers, initiated an investigation in response to a request by the CIPFG, a U.S.-based, front organization of the Falun Dafa Association founded in April 2006.[19] On July 20, 2006, Kilgour and Matas released their findings at the National Press Club.[20] They issued an updated report on 31 January, 2007 saying that the second report presented "an even more compelling case".[21]
Transcript of phone calls provided by Falun Gong (WOIPFG)[22] 1. Call to Dr. Lu, Nanning City Minzu Hospital, Guangxi FG: "...Could you find organs from Falun Gong practitioners?" FG: "Do you have Falun Gong organ suppliers?" |
On July 6, 2006, after two months of interviewing people in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, the first report of 69 pages was released. Kilgour & Matas[22] said that they had found "credible evidence that the organs of Falun Gong adherents in China are being harvested for paid transplants".[23][24][25][26][27]
The authors qualify that there are inherent difficulties in verifying the alleged crimes. No independent bodies are allowed to investigate conditions in China; eyewitness evidence would be difficult to obtain; information about organ transplants is not available.[28]
The report gives background to human rights violations in China; the persecution of Falun Gong, including the campaign to incite public hatred toward the group and the torture of practitioners in custody; financing arrangements of healthcare and army facilities in China, where both are self-reliant for funding, and hospitals are known to profit from selling organs of death-row prisoners. The authors allege that this policy might be easily transferred to Falun Gong practitioners.
The report presents 33 strands of evidence which the authors say leads to the positive conclusion; singularly, the pieces of evidence do not prove the allegations, but their combination is the deciding factor. “Where every possible element of disproof we could identify fails to disprove the allegations, the likelihood of the allegations being true becomes substantial.”[28]
Details of organ transplanting
China has no organized donation system, as in western countries. There is also a cultural aversion to organ donation, such that even if there were a system in place, donations would be scarce. The authors say these factors severely limit the availability of voluntarily donated organs for transplant.
Of the 60,000 organ transplants the China Medical Organ Transplant Association recorded between 2000 and 2005, 18,500 organs came from identifiable sources. The source of 41,500 transplant organs could not thus be explained.[29] On July 6, 2006, Matas told reporters that China, which has repeatedly denied similar allegations,[30][31] refused entry to both to investigate the claims further.[32]
The authors note the very short waiting times in Chinese hospitals for transplants. One hospital which boasts one week for a transplant, another claims to provide a liver in two weeks. In Canada, the waiting time for a kidney can be up to 32.5 months. With the survival period for a kidney being between 24-48 hours, and a liver about 12 hours, the authors contend that only a large bank of living 'donors' could account for the “astonishingly short” waiting times.
The authors refer to a number of interviews with organ recipients, who gave similar accounts. The organ transplant surgery is “conducted in almost total secrecy”[28]; the recipient is not told the identity of the donor; they are never shown written consent; the identity of the doctor and support staff are often withheld; recipients and their families are often told the time of the operation immediately before it occurs; operations sometimes take place in the middle of the night; and that “The whole procedure is done on a 'don't ask, don't tell' basis.”[28]
They recount the anecdote of an individual who received an organ from a military-run hospital.
He was admitted to the No 1 Peoples' Hospital‑a civilian facility‑and during the ensuing two weeks four kidneys were brought for testing against his blood and other factors. None proved compatible because of his anti‑bodies; all were taken away.” He returned to the hospital two months later. “Another four kidneys were similarly tested; when the eighth proved compatible, the transplant operation was successfully completed... His surgeon... Dr. Tan Jianming of the Nanjing military region... carried sheets of paper containing lists of prospective 'donors', based on various tissue and blood characteristics, from which he would select names.The doctor was observed at various times to leave the hospital in uniform and return 2‑3 hours later with containers bearing kidneys. Dr. Tan told the recipient that the eighth kidney came from an executed prisoner. The military have access to prisons and prisoners. Their operations are even more secretive than those of the civilian government. They are impervious to the rule of law.
Chinese transplant websites
Kilgour and Matas call the information found on Chinese hospital websites “incriminating”. They cite one site which claims that internal organs can be found 'immediately!'; the FAQ section on that site denies that organs come from “brain death (sic)” patients. Another shows various graphs with soaring organ transplantation figures—these start going up after 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began.
In addition, organ transplanting is a highly profitable industry in China. The report provides a list of prices in US dollars found on Chinese transplant websites in April, 2006. These range from US$62,000 for a kidney, to US$130,000-160,000 for a heart. The authors write that they have no way of following the 'money trail', but that the lack of transparency is questionable.
They also state that China is a huge buyer of anti-rejection drugs for transplants, as with the use of these drugs it is not necessary to tissue-match.
Falun Gong specific considerations
Kilgour and Matas state that one of the “most disturbing” moments in researching the report was the discovery of a massive population of imprisoned Falun gong practitioners who remained unidentified. When they are arrested for Falun Gong related activities, practitioners may refuse to give their names for fear of repercussions for their families. In these cases, no one outside the prison system knows their whereabouts. They state that there is a significant lack of representation among freed Falun Gong practitioners, from those who failed to self identify while they were imprisoned—these 'disappearances', the authors contend, are ready candidates for live organ harvesting.[28]
Recommendations
The report supports the allegations of China's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners and calls for a ban on Canadian citizens travelling to China for transplant operations.[33][34][35] "Our findings are shocking. To us, this is a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet," Matas said the live organ harvesting practice amounted to a crime against humanity.[36]
Response and debate
On June 3, 2007, in response to David Matas' presentation of his study to an organ transplant conference in Jerusalem, the Chinese embassy in Israel said: "There is no live organ bank in China and there is no intention to open one."[37] Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv prohibited Jews from deriving any benefit from Chinese organ harvesting, "even in life-threatening situations". Other Rabbis opposed to the use of Chinese organs for transplants include Menahem Porush, former Agudat Yisrael MK; Shlomo Aviner, head of the Ateret Yerushalayim Yeshiva; and Yuval Cherlow, one of the heads of the Petah Tikva Hesder Yeshiva and rabbis of the Sanhedrin, a revival of the ancient Jewish governing body.[38]
The Chinese Embassy in Canada replied to the Kilgour-Matas report immediately upon its release on July 6, stating that China abided by World Health Organization principles that prohibit the sale of human organs without written consent from donors. The authors were accused of wanting to smear China's image. "[T]he so-called 'independent investigation report' made by a few Canadians based on rumors and false allegations is groundless and biased." The Chinese Embassy in Washington also said the allegations were "totally fake" and said the Chinese government had already investigated the claims and found them meritless.[39]
On July 24, 2006, Associate Director of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine in the University of Minnesota, Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS released a statement on a forum held on the World Transplant Congress in Boston, confirming the Matas report and calling for academia and medical circles stop cooperation with China on organ transplantation.[40]
In July 2006, human rights lawyer Dr. Terri Marsh officially delivered a criminal complaint against several top doctors in China on to the Massachusetts Prosecutor's Office during the first World Transplant Congress which was being held in Boston.[39]Two were accused of violating the United States' "Torture Criminal Statute" (Title 18 USCA Section2340A) and "Torture Convention" approved and implemented by the United States in 1994.[41] A third Chinese doctor, the director of Tianjin Oriental Organ Transplant Center, was sued for torture. The three were targeted because they were directors at hospitals which, it is alleged, admitted in recorded telephone conversation that the sources of the hospitals' organ transplants included Falun Gong practitioners.[42]
The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.[43] A congressional investigative report by Dr Thomas Lum stated that the Kilgour report relied largely upon making logical inferences, without bringing forth new or independently-obtained testimony. According to Lum, Kilgour and Matas's conclusions rely heavily upon transcripts of telephone calls with reported PRC respondents, and the credibility of the telephone recordings was called into question due to the Chinese government's controls over sensitive information.[19]
In 9 August, 2006, Harry Wu questioned the feasibility of the claims. He said a total of 4,500 victims "would mean 1,500 persons per year, or at least 120 persons per month whose organs were removed".[44] "This would be impossible to accomplish in an environment such as Sujiatun," he said. "China takes organs from many executed prisoners every year, but to kill 4,000 or 5,000 people, I don't think so. Professional doctors would not do this." He also cast doubt on claims that a doctor removed corneas from 2,000 followers in less than two years. Matas asserted that the process of removing the eyes takes only 20 minutes, and added that one surgeon could remove the corneas from 2,000 bodies in just 83 days.[16]
On August 14, 2006, US National Kidney Foundation released a statement expressing their concerns in response to the "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Practitioners in China" by Kilgour and Matas.[45]
On September 29, 2006, the United States Congress held a hearing for organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners,[46][47][48] and issued a report, which stated that the Kilgour report "relied largely upon making logical inferences, without bringing forth new or independently-obtained testimony".[19] Amnesty International stated that claims of systematic organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners cannot be confirmed or denied.[19]
On January 31, 2007, following travels to approximately thirty national capitals to publicise their findings, Matas and Kilgour revised their report. They have added new allegations and recommendations for action in response to their findings, and have retitled it "Bloody Harvest"[17]
An article in the Ottawa Citizen on November 24, 2007 questioned the veracity of Falun Gong's allegations and credibility of the Kilgour/Matas report. It noted that the windows and a door of the alleged crematorium was located in the quadrangle at the centre of the main hospital building, in plain sight of any of the wards on the quadrangle. "It seemed unlikely that 2,000 cadavers could be brought to the building unseen, if not by the patients in the wards, then by residents of the seven-storey apartment building directly across the street, which had a direct sight line to the quadrangle." The author reported being likened by Matas and Kilgour to a holocaust denier.[49]
On 30 March, the United Nations torture investigator Manfred Nowak promised to look into the Sujiatun case and officially submit well-founded allegation to the attention of the Chinese government. Nowak also stated that he found torture widespread in China when he got to visit the country in late 2005 after a decade of negotiations. Furthermore, Nowak's new report insisted on the Chinese government to abolish its "re-education through labour" system and urged authorities to release all political prisoners and people held for exercising their right to freedom of speech, assembly and religion. China has denied earlier abuse and torture charges made by Nowak and asked the U.N. envoy to "think again." [1]
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