July 13, 2006

The mainstream media in Denmark reported on the independent Canadian investigation into organ harvesting. On July 13th, 2006, Danish news agency Ritzau released news about the investigation. The title of the report is 'China is selling Falun Gong practitioners' organs'.

This report was reprinted by other mainstream media. Major Danish newspapers Berlingske Tidende, Jyllands-Posten and the Danish TV Channel 2 all put this news as their headlines on the same day.

This report said that according to the recently released report by the Canadian independent investigation group, Falun Gong practitioners' organs were sold in China. An MEP suggested abolishing China's right to host the 2008 Olympic Games. As the writers of the report said, in recent years, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were killed in China and they were not protected by any law. Then practitioners' organs were sold to the people who need corneas, livers, kidneys, lungs or hearts at the price of hundreds of kroner.

The Communist regime in China is selling executed prisoners' organs, this is one issue. Their killing of a person is to provide a kidney to another person, for example, a Scandinavian, is another issue altogether. One of the authors of the report, former Canadian diplomat David Kilgour condemned this practice in a press conference.

Another author of the report is respected human rights lawyer David Matas. They could not tell the exact number of people murdered, however, Kilgour pointed out that it had been affirmed that this is genocide committed by the Chinese government.

This investigation concludes that thousands of people are being murdered. The investigation was done through interviewing government officials, doctors and people who were once detained in prison. The report pointed out that in China there are at least thirteen concentration camps and hospitals claiming to sell organs. On Wednesday July 12th, Ritzau visited the English website of a Chinese hospital. On the website, the price of a kidney is labeled at 363,000 kroner.

The investigation report states that prisoners were subjected to torture and medical checks, which means that unwilling organ donors are kept alive in concentration camps until their organs match a willing patient. European Parliament Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott said that he made a trip to China to investigate this issue and one of the Falun Gong witnesses he met was caught by the Chinese authorities soon afterwards. He was indignant at this.

During Thursday's press conference, McMillan-Scott urged the United Nations to investigate this issue. He thought that China's right to host 2008 Olympic Games should be abolished.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200607/34437.html

Posting date: 7/27/2006
Original article date: 7/27/2006
Category: News & Media Reports
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/18/133298.html

 Yearly Archive  Printer Version