Former director of the Asian Pacific Division of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and member of Parliament, Mr. David Kilgour, and human rights lawyer, David Matas, released an independent report, concluding that the allegations that vital organs are being seized from Falun Gong practitioners in China are true.
Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament and designated rapporteur for the EU’s new Democracy and Human Rights Instrument went to Beijing to investigate in person the persecution of Falun Gong in China, in particular allegations of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Here is his report:
A former Canadian cabinet member and a human rights lawyer issued a report overnight alleging China harvests organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale.
The Government of China released a statement in response to our report titled Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China dated July 6, 2006.
We have these reactions to this statement:
“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.