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FDI: Amidst the Evidence, Denying Sujiatun Organ Trafficking Must Not Stand
NEW
YORK (FDI) -- According to a March 28 Associated Press report, the Chinese
Communist regime has denied the existence of a Sujiatun concentration camp.
Sources indicate thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been held in
Sujiatun, and, these sources say, that as many as three quarters of them were
cremated after their organs were removed.
Faced
with gory accounts of organs being systematically removed from live and barely
anaesthetized prisoners, we all wish the information were false. Extraordinary
acts of evil have never been easy to believe -- how could humans possibly do
such things to each another?
Unfortunately,
details disclosed by these sources and an overwhelming body of supporting
information suggests the fundamentals of the story -- that a large number of
Falun Gong practitioners were, and perhaps many still are, being held in the
Sujiatun area to harvest their organs -- is true, and demands an immediate,
unrestricted international investigation.
First,
information about Sujiatun has come from multiple sources who have provided
consistent accounts.
A Chinese reporter who had worked for a Japanese news agency broke the story on
March 9. Next, a woman who had worked at the Sujiatun hospital in which the
organs are said to be removed from prisoners in the adjoining concentration camp
stepped forward. She says her ex-husband had been responsible for removing
corneas from live Falun Gong prisoners there.
The
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has
since conducted its own investigation, obtaining additional information.
Moreover, since The Epoch Times broke the story two weeks ago, the Falun Dafa
Information Center has learned that several Chinese readers have contacted the
paper, citing experiences that support the original accounts.
Second,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a well-documented practice of organ
harvesting without prior consent, often from executed prisoners.
Reports of this practice have appeared in leading newspapers and been the
subject of U.S. congressional hearings.
Third,
removal of organs from Falun Gong practitioners killed in custody has already
been documented.
Since 1999, the CCP has routinely tortured and killed Falun Gong practitioners,
a fact recognized by Amnesty International and the U.S. State Department's
annual reports (report).
A Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group report (report)
details specific cases in which organs were removed from the bodies of Falun
Gong practitioners who had been tortured to death.
Sadly,
the information revealed about Sujiatun fits in exactly with the CCP's pattern
of disregard for human life. After banning Falun Gong in 1999, former Chinese
leader Jiang Zemin said: "no means are too extreme to eliminate Falun Gong."
Police officers regularly tell prisoners that "when a Falun Gong practitioner
dies in jail it counts as null and is considered suicide."
There
are other disturbing statistics.
According to a Chinese-language health website, www.hbver.com, beginning in
2000, the total number of liver transplants in China almost doubled each year.
Today China's International Transplantation Network Assistance Center (http://en.zoukiishoku.com)
boasts that a suitable kidney donor can be found in 1-4 weeks. If the first
organ is found by the doctor to be unsuitable, a new organ will be offered
"in one week." At the same time, there are hundreds, if not thousands
of reports of Falun Gong practitioners in China who say family members who had
been abducted by police have never been heard from again. Why have they all
gone?
The
timing of the CCP's denial is also suspicious.
Why did the regime wait for over two weeks to deny Sujiatun? And why did the CCP,
after years of known illicit organ trafficking but just weeks after Sujiatun was
revealed, also today suddenly announce a new law against organ trafficking?
We
call for a thorough and real investigation, not a show tour, by independent
international organizations, allowing a WOIPFG researcher immediate and
unrestricted access to the entire area. Anything short of complete access is a
cover up.
We
also urge journalists in Beijing and around the world to dig into the story, and
include the facts of organ harvesting that are already widely known in your
reports. Quotes from representatives of the Chinese regime alone do not
constitute real news. We encourage you to find out what is really happening, and
report the truth.
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PRESS
STATEMENT - Mar. 28, 2006 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA
INFORMATION CENTER Posting date: 3/29/2006
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