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Canada: Practitioners Rally at Parliament Hill - MPs Come to Support By Ying Zhi, Minghui reporter
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 26, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners rallied
in front of Parliament Hill in Canada, calling on the Canadian government and
people to work together to stop the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) crimes of
harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. MPs including MP Irwin
Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada will come to
support and make speeches. Reuven Bulka, PhD of law, Chairman of the Organ
Donation Committee of the Kidney Foundation for Eastern Ontario, will also make
a speech at the rally. Former Canadian Liberty Party government cabinet member and renowned Jewish
scholar Reuven Bulka once wrote an article in the Ottawa Citizen on
August 25, saying that the CCP harvesting organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners is "a human-rights breach of the worst order, and demands a
response on the international level commensurate with the monstrous evil." Bulka stated in his article, "People who are capable of these atrocities
are not trustworthy. Promises that things are better are worthless.
International oversight is an absolute must to ensure that this unspeakable
horror stops." Bulka suggested, "Governments must raise their collective voices in
disgust at this, and condemn it in uncompromising terms. The traffic flow to
China for these "procedures" needs to be stopped. We are capable of
monitoring this if we set our minds to it. " Bulka suggested to all groups and individuals, "Any muscle that we have,
both collectively and individually, needs to be brought to bear in this
fight." He said, "Governments should look at the propriety of any
trade with China, and individuals should think about the morality of buying
items that are made in China until this stops, with finality and with proof of
same." Bulka said, "The Olympics is the last stop in this process. That is a
few years away, and the situation demands immediate and forceful attention. But
if, God forbid, nothing happens between now and then, I cannot imagine that any
self-respecting athlete would want to be involved in any activity, athletic or
otherwise, that gives credibility, acceptability and respectability to a regime
worthy of nothing more than utter contempt and revulsion." In May this year, Canadian veteran MP David Kilgour and David Matas launched
an independent investigation regarding the allegation on the CCP harvesting
organs from living Falun Gong practitioners nationwide. During this time, the
Kilgour/Matas investigation team met with many victims and witnesses, and made
an in-depth research. The two investigators published their investigative report
on July 6 in Ottawa, through assessing the eighteen different kinds of evidence
on the cases that "Each portion of the evidence ... is, in itself,
verifiable, and, in most cases, incontestable," they concluded, "there
has been and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from unwilling
Falun Gong practitioners." Hundreds of media in Canada have reported on the Kilgour/Matas report. To
sustain international attention to this matter, Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas once
jointly or separately visited the United Nations, Hong Kong, Brussels, Paris,
Berlin, London, Washington, New York, Boston, Australia, New Zealand,
Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Finland and other places. In London, four times in
a day, they went to the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC), that has about
four hundred million listeners. In Australia, they were invited four times by
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Other than the support from Canadian MPs of different parties, the
international attention has continuously increased, such as all-party support in
Australia and Sweden. They call on the international community to investigate
and help stop the crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners in China. Posting date: 9/27/2006 |