(Clearwisdom.net) On January 24, 2007, US Senator Norm
Coleman from Minnesota wrote to a Falun Gong practitioner concerning the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP)'s atrocity of organ harvesting from Falun Gong
practitioners in China. Senator Coleman said in the letter: "As a firm
advocate of human rights, I pledge my continued support for those in China who
have been deprived of their essential liberties and freedoms." Below is the
text of the letter. United States Senate January 24, 2007 Dear Ms. Tsutsui: Thank you for contacting me in regards to the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China (PRC). As a firm
advocate of human rights, I pledge my continued support for those in China who
have been deprived of their essential liberties and freedoms. In March 2006, Falun Gong representatives in the U.S. claimed
that thousands of practitioners had been thrown in Chinese concentration camps,
where they were slain for profit through the sale of their harvested organs.
China has vehemently denied that there is any substance to these reports.
Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. consulate in Shenyang
have conducted some investigations at one particular location and found no
evidence that the location was being used for organ harvesting. I have shared your concerns about Chinese organ harvesting
with the State Department and have received assurances that they will continue
to rigorously investigate these allegations. The State Department has long
called on China to "respect freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to
allow all persons to practice their religious faiths freely, and to end the
cycle of oppression on Falun Gong." On June 12, 2006, the House approved H. Res. 608 by a vote of
363-1. H. Res. 608, introduced by Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), condemns the
escalating levels of religious persecution in China and expresses the sense of
the House of Representatives that U.S. policy should promote and defend
religious freedom and freedom of conscience in China. I have also examined a
resolution, introduced by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ), condemning Chinese
human rights abuses and calling on China to end its persecution on the Falun
Gong (H. Res. 794). With 28 co-sponsors, H. Res. 794 passed in the House on June
12, 2006. If similar legislation should appear in the Senate, please know that I
will give it my full consideration. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
co-founder of the bipartisan Senate China Working Group, I will continue to
press China on these issues of serious concern, and will work to ensure that
China honors its international commitments to fair trade, religious freedom, and
human rights, as I did on my recent trip to China in August. Thank you once again for contacting me. If I may be of
further assistance to you in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me
again. Sincerely, Norm Coleman
Washington, DC 20610-2307
United States Senate
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/26/149754.html