Taiwan: Press Conference Discusses Canadian Independent Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting Atrocities

(Clearwisdom.net) On October 13, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia Pacific and senior member of Parliament David Kilgour told the press in Taiwan that after an independent investigation of more than two months they have concluded that the Chinese Communist regime is illegally harvesting organs from mostly Falun Gong practitioners. He said that he hopes that governments around the world will pay attention to this inhumane practice and take proper actions to protect human rights.

According to a Central News Agency article published on October 13, David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas formed an independent team to investigate the claims of organ harvesting. After examining every avenue of proof and disproof collected from many channels, they released the "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China," in which they concluded that the organ harvesting claims are true. In the morning, Kilgour and Matas met with Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu and presented him with their report.

Kilgour said that the Chinese Communist regime denied their visa application to enter China to perform investigation, while it still has not been able to respond to their July report properly except claiming that two province names were misprinted in the report. Three months after the release of the report, the regime only pointed out two minor errors. Wouldn't this indicate that China acknowledges that the rest of the report is true?

Based on examination of eighteen avenues of proof and disproof, the independent report concluded that the allegations of the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities of harvesting organs form Falun Gong practitioners are true. In addition, large scale organ seizure from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners is still happening in Mainland China.

The report said that investigators interviewed witnesses who live in Canada, Australia, France, the U.S. and China through in-person interviews, phone calls and mail. Among the many proofs, one major category is phone recordings of phone interviews with doctors, hospital and detention center staff members across China. The report also included a testimony from the ex-wife of an surgeon who performed more than 2000 operations in which he removed Falun Gong practitioners' corneas.

The report also analyzed organ transplant data. According to published reports, from 2000 to 2005, while Falun Gong practitioners were being harshly persecuted, more than 60,000 organ transplant operations were performed in China. However, this number was just 18,500 during the previous 6-year period (1994-1999). The organ sources for the some 41,500 operations can not be explained.

Moreover, the report also pointed out that the waiting time for organs in China is much shorter than in other countries. "Hospital web sites in China advertise short waiting times for organ transplants. Transplants of long dead donors are not viable because of organ deterioration after death. If we take these hospital's self-promotions at face value, they tell us that there are a number of people now alive who are available almost on demand as sources of organs," the report stated.

The report concluded: "We have concluded that the government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and 'people's courts', since 1999 have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries."

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/10/14/140204.html

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