By a practitioner in Taiwan

(Clearwisdom.net) On April 14, 2006, member of Legislative Committee Lai Qing-de put forward a bill to strongly condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution of Falun Gong and to call on members of the Legislative Committee to pass a resolution urging international human rights organizations to investigate the CCP's crimes. The bill condemned the CCP's unlawful imprisonment of practitioners, torturing them in concentration camps, live organ removal and other inhuman means violating international covenants on human rights and freedom of belief.

The bill has been co-signed by more than forty members of the Legislative Committee. The bill asks the Legislative Committee to pass a resolution urging international human rights organizations and the World Health Organization to dispatch a team to investigate on site in local concentration camps, labor camps and hospitals. The resolution also requests the CCP to stop committing those crimes and establish a transparent policy on the remains of death-row prisoners, organ donation and transplantation.

Mr. Lai will hold a press conference on April 18 to express the position of the Legislative Committee with the co-signed bill and hand it over to the Legislative Committee.

Mr. Lai said, "The Chinese Communist regime persecutes Falun Gong and democratic advocates and harvests organs from living persons. Our press conference will first request the government to condemn the violent atrocities and urge the Legislative Committee to send a request to international human rights organizations, the World Health Organization, the UN, and the Red Cross to thoroughly investigate the crimes of live organ removal in concentration camps in mainland China. We also call on people in Taiwan not to receive organ transplants in Mainland China."

Mr. Lai said that the press conference on April 18 will invite representatives from the Department of Health, the Falun Dafa Association and the Organ Transplantation Association to explain organ transplantation in Mainland China from their perspectives.

The bill stated, "Three weeks after international media exposed that there are at least 36 concentration camps like Sujiatun in mainland China, CCP denied the allegations but did not provide any explanation. Hospitals in China do not check the source of the organs but conduct large scale organ transplantation. Doctors work overtime to conduct such surgeries and inform patients that organs will be used up within two weeks. It indicates that evidence will be destroyed and people imprisoned in concentration camps will be slaughtered."

Based on estimates, more than 3000 patients from Korea have gone to China to receive organ transplants in recent years. There are also many patients from other countries who go to China to undergo organ transplantation. The CCP's Ministry of Health claimed that the organs were from death-row inmates, but only over one thousand can be tracked. We urge each country and the Taiwan government to discourage patients from receiving organ transplants in China until it sets up a transparent policy of organ transplantation to avoid infection or becoming an accomplice of the organ trade and the inhuman crime of live organ removal.

Posting date: 4/17/2006
Original article date: 4/17/2006
Category: Worldwide Support
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/16/125397.html

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