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The allegations first appeared in the [[Epoch Times]] in March 2006. According to two witnesses, internal organs had been harvested and sold at the [[Sujiatun]] Thrombosis Hospital, [[Liaoning]] province, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. The witnesses alleged that no prisoner came out alive, and that six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Party immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the Sujiatun "concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. Three weeks later, upon invitation, the [[United States Department of State]] investigated the site, finding 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> China Dissident and Executive Director of the [[Laogai Research Foundation]], [[Harry Wu]], having sent his own investigators to the site, was also unable to substantiate the claims.<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> |
The allegations first appeared in the [[Epoch Times]] in March 2006. According to two witnesses, internal organs had been harvested and sold at the [[Sujiatun]] Thrombosis Hospital, [[Liaoning]] province, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. The witnesses alleged that no prisoner came out alive, and that six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Party immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the Sujiatun "concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. Three weeks later, upon invitation, the [[United States Department of State]] investigated the site, finding 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> China Dissident and Executive Director of the [[Laogai Research Foundation]], [[Harry Wu]], having sent his own investigators to the site, was also unable to substantiate the claims.<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> |
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Separately from the Sujiatun series of events, 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. Their report concludes that the allegations are true, stating that the Party, has 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." The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.<ref>The Monitor's View (August 3, 2006)[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p08s02-comv.html "Organ harvesting and China's openness"], ''The [[Christian Science Monitor]]'', retrieved August 6, 2006</ref> A [[Congressional Research Service]] report says that the reports’s key allegations appear to be inconsistent with the findings of other investigations.<ref>CRS Report for Congress (August 11, 2006)[http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf "China and Falun Gong"], ''[[Congressional Research Service]]'', retrieved November 12, 2007</ref> Matas and Kilgour updated their report with additional research in January [[2007]], and maintain that their previous conclusion was reinforced, that the evidence is current, the practice ongoing, and that their report has not met with any substantive refutation |
Separately from the Sujiatun series of events, 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. Their report concludes that the allegations are true, stating that the Party, has 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." The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.<ref>The Monitor's View (August 3, 2006)[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p08s02-comv.html "Organ harvesting and China's openness"], ''The [[Christian Science Monitor]]'', retrieved August 6, 2006</ref> A [[Congressional Research Service]] report says that the reports’s key allegations appear to be inconsistent with the findings of other investigations.<ref>CRS Report for Congress (August 11, 2006)[http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf "China and Falun Gong"], ''[[Congressional Research Service]]'', retrieved November 12, 2007</ref> Matas and Kilgour updated their report with additional research in January [[2007]], and maintain that their previous conclusion was reinforced, that the evidence is current, the practice ongoing, and that their report has not met with any substantive refutation. |
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On Nov. 24 2007 the Ottawa Citizen published an article questioning the veracity of Falun Gong's organ harvesting allegaton, and credibility of the Kilgour/Matas report [http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=2c15d2f0-f0ab-4da9-991a-23e4094de949&p=3] |
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== First claims: Sujiatun == |
== First claims: Sujiatun == |
Revision as of 10:49, 17 December 2007
Evidence has been presented alleging that the Chinese Communist Party and its agencies, including the People's Liberation Army, continue to conduct widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners. The evidence alleges 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, sometimes for foreign recipients, they are seized, injected with potassium to stop the heart, their organs removed, and their bodies incinerated. The evidence, witness testimonies, and controversy related to these claims surfaced in 2006.
The allegations first appeared in the Epoch Times in March 2006. According to two witnesses, internal organs had been harvested and sold at the Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital, Liaoning province, the bodies incinerated in the hospital's boiler room. The witnesses alleged that no prisoner came out alive, and that six thousand practitioners had been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom were killed. The Party immediately accused Falun Gong of fabricating the Sujiatun "concentration camp", citing lack of evidence and incapability of the hospital to perform the claimed acts. Three weeks later, upon invitation, the United States Department of State investigated the site, finding no evidence to support the allegations.[1] China Dissident and Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation, Harry Wu, having sent his own investigators to the site, was also unable to substantiate the claims.[2]
Separately from the Sujiatun series of events, 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. Their report concludes that the allegations are true, stating that the Party, has 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." The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.[3] A Congressional Research Service report says that the reports’s key allegations appear to be inconsistent with the findings of other investigations.[4] Matas and Kilgour updated their report with additional research in January 2007, and maintain that their previous conclusion was reinforced, that the evidence is current, the practice ongoing, and that their report has not met with any substantive refutation.
On Nov. 24 2007 the Ottawa Citizen published an article questioning the veracity of Falun Gong's organ harvesting allegaton, and credibility of the Kilgour/Matas report [1]
First claims: Sujiatun
On March 10 2006 the Epoch Times reported the detailed allegations by a former investigative journalist, referred to as "Mr. R", of a number of exposés he had been involved in. Mr. R drew attention to practices which highlighted the Chinese approach to security and state secrecy, and described a "heinous crime" which was being committed by the Chinese Communist Party on six thousand practitioners in an underground compound in Shenyang in Liaoning province which he referred to as the "Sujiatun Concentration Camp". He claims the compound was secretly built using prisoners, and none of its detainees come out alive. Mr. R said that Falun Gong practitioners provide a readily available source of transplant organs which are sold by doctors and then sent to medical facilities in a highly lucrative trade.[5]
On March 17, the Epoch Times published accounts from a second anonymous source with similar allegations and further details about Sujiatun: the informant claimed her husband had been involved in the removal of organs from Falun Gong practitioners at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (now China Traditional Medicine Thrombosis Treatment Center) where she also worked. She alleged the hospital had secretly kept illegally arrested Falun Gong practitioners in an underground detention centre. Many practitioners were apparently still alive when their organs were taken, as organs from live bodies are more valuable than organs taken from cadavers. "After their organs were cut out, some of these people were thrown directly into the crematorium to be burnt"[6]
According to a Washington Times article by Bill Gertz, "Jin Zhong", a journalist who has been a contributor to a Japanese news agency and who was seeking political asylum in the United States, also claimed knowledge of the harvesting operation in an underground detention centre between October and December in 2005 while researching the Chinese government's response to SARS. The article claims that several other hospital workers had also revealed details about the prisoner organ harvesting. Jin, who had been arrested twice in China for his reporting, referred to Sujiatun as "murder sponsored by a state". "Jin" also alleges that the bodies of prisoners were incinerated in the boiler room of the hospital, and that boiler room workers had taken jewelry and watches from the dead and sold them. [7]
On 30 March, a third anonymous informant found by the Epoch Times who identified himself as a senior military doctor in Shenyang military zone, confirmed that "routine organ harvesting" had been taking place at Sujiatun. He alleges that more than 10,000 people were detained in Sujiatun in early 2005, but the number of detainees was approximately 600-750. Detainees were rapidly transferred to and from other camps by closed freight train on a special route, "handcuffed like rotisserie chickens". The informant also asserts that the hospital in Sujiatun is only one of 36 similar camps all over China: for example, Jilin camp, codenamed 672-S, holds over 120,000 people, not only Falun Gong practitioners.[8] According to these sources, organs taken for transplant include hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas.
An additional report on 30 April from the same source also claimed that "there is also a large exporting of live bodies... [who are sold] overseas like merchandise". It was also claimed that "it is known that about 1,000 bodies were exported in year 2005".[8] This specific allegation was left out in the English translation and as a result was never released to the International community. The English version of the report was since removed from the Epoch Times website.
Nina Shea from Freedom House has called for investigation of the case.[9]
International response
On Apr 19, 2006, Sky News went undercover with cameras inside Chinese hospitals where nurses and doctors confirm 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's 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[10]
Members of parliament also expressed their concern: Guido Tastenhoye, a member of the Belgian parliament, has questioned Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel De Gucht about the imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun.[11] 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.[12]
Sceptisism
Some human rights activists also became skeptical of the claims. Harry Wu, best known for his investigations of Laogai and alleged organ harvesting of executed prisoners, claimed that the allegations were just heresay from two witnesses. "No pictures, no witnesses, no paperwork, no detailed information at all, nothing."[13] Some time later, Kilgour and Matas were to accuse Wu of bad faith because he drew his conclusions without interviewing the witnesses.[14] Wu maintained that he never had an opportunity to interview them[2]
Wu claims to have sent investigators to the Sujiatun scene. "From March 12, the investigators canvassed the entire Sujiatun area... including two military barracks, the Chinese Medical Blood Clotting Treatment Center in Sujiatun... and the Kongjiashan prison. None of the investigations revealed any trace of the concentration camp. The investigators provided me with photographs and written reports on their investigation and results on March 15, 17, 27, 29, 30 and April 4."[15] David Kilgour would later defend his findings against Wu's arguments, saying that after March 9, the whistle was blown. "We're talking about things that happened before March the 9th and that's really the fundamental difference."[16]
An opinion piece of April 1, 2006 in The Australian, doubts that the harvesting is taking place on the scale which is being suggested. The author, Mike Steketee, opined that labelling the hospital as a concentration camp was wrong, as there is "no credible evidence that it operates the equivalent of gulags or concentration camps". Though he concedes that in light of the CCP's human rights record, the claims cannot be completely discounted.[17]
On April 14, 2006, the United States Department of State reported the findings of its investigation. The report states that: "U.S. representatives have found no evidence to support allegations that a site in northeast China has been used as a concentration camp to jail Falun Gong practitioners and harvest their organs." Staff from U.S. embassy in Beijing and the U.S. consulate in Shenyang have visited the area and the specific site on two separate occasions and that "the officers were allowed to tour the entire facility and grounds and found no evidence that the site is being used for any function other than as a normal public hospital."[1]
CCP response
Shortly after the allegation surfaced, on March 23 2006, a Foreign Ministry Spokesman rejected it as a “lie... not worth refuting.” He also invited reporters to go to Sujiatun to look into the claims.[18]
On April 13, 2006, an official from the hospital denied that the hospital has the facilities for organ transplantation, and no basement to house the practitioners.[19]
The following year, the government's rebuttal appeared again in a UN report, stating that the facilities in the hospital are inadequate, and that “Sujiatun Hospital is nothing but a simple hospital to treat coronary disease and that there is no evidence to show that it is being used for any [such alleged] purpose.”[20]
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 Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), a U.S.-based, front organization of the Falun Dafa Association founded in April 2006.[21] They released their first report on July 6, 2006, and after further investigation they released a second report on 31 January, 2007[22]
On July 6, 2006, after two months of interviewing people in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, the report was released. During the press conference, they presented their 69-page long report[23] saying that they had found "credible evidence that the organs of Falun Gong adherents in China are being harvested for paid transplants".[24][25][26][27][28] The report also cited phone transcripts were provided by Falun Gong (WOIPFG).[23]
Transcript of a phone call to Dr. Lu, Nanning City Minzu Hospital, Guangxi[23]
Q: "...Could you find organs from Falun Gong practitioners?" Transcript from phone call to Mr. Li at Mishan City Detention Centre, Heilongjiang: Q: "Do you have Falun Gong organ suppliers?" |
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.[31] On July 6, 2006, Matas told reporters that China, which has repeatedly denied similar allegations,[32][33] refused entry to both to investigate the claims further.[34]
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.[35][36][37] "I did my utmost to make sure that everything was satisfactorily and properly and ethically done," Kilgour said. "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.[29]On July 20, 2006, Kilgour and Matas, held a press conference at the National Press Club to release the findings.[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 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"[14]
According to South China Morning Post news on 9 August2006, 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".[40]
"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.
David 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]
The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.[41]
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 the report, Kilgour and Matas's conclusions rely heavily upon transcripts of telephone calls with reported PRC respondents, and questioned the credibility of the telephone recordings due to the Chinese government's controls over sensitive information.[21]
International response
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.[42]
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.[43] A third Chinese doctor, the director of Tianjin Oriental Organ Transplant Center, was sued for torture. All the defendants were targeted because doctors in the hospitals where they are directors admitted in recorded telephone conversation that the sources of the hospitals' organ transplants include Falun Gong practitioners.[44]
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] The congressional investigative report states that the Kilgour report relied largely upon making logical inferences,without bringing forth new or independently-obtained testimony.[21] Amnesty International has stated that claims of systematic organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners cannot be confirmed or denied.[21]
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."[49]
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.[50]
Doubts
On Nov. 24 2007 the Ottawa Citizen published an article questioning the conclusion of the Kilgour/Matas report [2]
United Nations
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." [3]
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