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VOA: Two Canadian Investigators Urge Public Not to Go to China for Organ Transplants
(Clearwisdom.net) Two Canadians, the former Secretary of State for the
Asia-Pacific region and a well-known human rights lawyer, recently called on
countries around the world to discourage their citizens from going to China for
organ transplants because such organs may be seized from unwilling Falun Gong
practitioners or detained prisoners. According to an article from Voice of America (VOA) on February 2, Canadians
David Kilgour and David Matas released 16 items of additional material to their
report which was published last summer. With these new materials, they are
attempting to tell the public that organ harvesting is a widespread phenomenon
in China. The additional materials include the following: the total number of
medical facilities in China which are capable of performing liver transplant has
increased from 22 in 1999 to 5,000 in 2006; and the 2004 income from organ
transplant operations for the Armed Police General Hospital in Beijing nearly
doubled compared to its 2003 income. The VOA report said that the two called on the Canadian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to warn Canadians not to got to China for organ transplants. In
addition, they also hope that Canada and other countries will enact legislation
to ban citizens from going to China for organ transplants. Matas said that in China most organs used for transplant are from executed
prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners who have not agreed to donate their
organs after death. Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour believed
that the prisoners were not willing volunteers even if they signed a will to
donate their organs after execution. He said that the Chinese Communist regime
often executes prisoners to obtain organs. Therefore, going to China for an
organ transplant means that someone will be executed and thus the organ
recipient in fact becomes an accomplice to murder. He believed that given the
situation in China, the international community should boycott the 2008 Olympic
Games in Beijing to express their protest. Kilgour said that they hope that the Canadian Olympic Committee and the
International Olympic Committee as well as many others, including governments,
athletes and sponsors should all consider this question: Should we interact with
such a government that has done such horrific things to its own citizens? |