News and Events from around the World -- March 30, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • New Witness: There Are Dozens of Similar Concentration Camps

  • Washington DC: Rally in Front of White House to Commemorate Fellow Practitioners Murdered by CCP

  • Taiwan: Exposing Sujiatun Atrocities and Collecting Signatures in the Rain at Chudong

  • United Kingdom: Exposing the Sujiatun Horrors on the Streets of Edinburgh

  • Ireland: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP's Atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp

  • Malaysia: Appeal to Help Stop the Chinese Communist Regime's Atrocities at Sujiatun Is Delivered to Malaysian Government



  • New Witness: There Are Dozens of Similar Concentration Camps


    After the first two witnesses exposed the Sujiatun atrocities, another witness who identified himself as "a veteran military doctor in the General Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Region" stepped forward to point out that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp indeed exists, organ harvesting and cremation of bodies is done routinely there, and some are even cremated while still alive. He stated that the Sujiatun hospital is only one of 36 similar concentration camps. Findings from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong point to a similar situation.

    The Hospital in Sujiatun is Only One of 36 Similar Concentration Camps in China

    According to this witness from the military system, the hospital in Sujiatun District is only one of 36 similar concentration camps across China. At present, the majority of detained Falun Gong practitioners are in prisons, forced labor camps and detention centers. They are transferred elsewhere on a large scale only when needed.

    This witness said that Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces imprison the largest number of Falun Gong practitioners. The concentration camp in Jiutai Area, Jilin Province is the 5th largest camp imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners in China. This camp alone detains over 14,000 Falun Gong practitioners.

    Jilin Concentration Camp, Code Named 672-S, Imprisons over 120,000 People

    The veteran military doctor indicated, "From the information I have access to, the largest concentration camp is in Jilin Province. The concentration camp code named 672-S imprisons over 120,000 people. A large number of Falun Gong practitioners, felons and prisoners of conscience from all over China are there, but I do not know its address."

    There Were Indeed over 10,000 People Detained in the Underground Concentration Camp of the Sujiatun District Hospital Prior to 2005 and in Early 2005

    The witness said, "In the underground concentration camp of the Sujiatun District Hospital, there were indeed over 10,000 people kept there in early 2005, but at the present time, the number of detainees there is maintained at 600-750. Many detainees have been transferred to other concentration camps."

    It Takes Only One Day to Transfer 5,000 People

    He continued, "You can't find much evidence even if you enter Sujiatun District to investigate. It takes only one day to transfer 5,000 people in a closed freight train on a special route. I have witnessed a specially dispatched freight train transferring over 7,000 people in one trip from Tianjin to the
    Jilin area. It ran at night, guarded by the army. Everyone on the train was handcuffed to specially designed handrails like a rotisserie chickens."


    The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) Found that Many Cities Have Participated in the Crimes

    After the Sujiatun atrocities were exposed, WOIPFG launched an urgent investigation across China. Results show that the crimes of harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs have happened and are still happening in at least in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hunan, Shandong, Liaoning, and Guangdong.

    The excerpts of several investigative telephone conversations are as below.

    (An Undisclosed Hospital in Guangzhou City)

    Caller: How long will I have to wait for a kidney?

    Doctor: About a week after you check into the hospital.

    Caller: But I have to have a fresh and healthy kidney, and I want one from a live donor. You are not going to give me a kidney from a dead person, are you?

    Doctor: Of course we will give you a high-quality kidney!

    Caller: Do you have one like the ones I hear about from Falun Gong people?

    Doctor: What we have in our hospital are all this kind.

    (An Undisclosed Medical College in Tianjin)

    Caller: The doctor said the kidney is very good and came from someone who practices qigong. I asked what type of qigong, and he told me the man practices Falun Gong. I heard that those who practice Falun Gong are healthier.

    Doctor: Of course. We also have kidneys from Falun Gong practitioners here. We harvest kidneys from people who are still breathing or have a heartbeat. So far we have had about a dozen such cases this year (2006)... Of course, the supplier's health is a very important factor. The supplier has to be young and healthy. Moreover, the time period where the warm blood supply to the kidney is cut off has to be reduced to a minimum or even to none. In this case, there was no lack of warm blood supply.

    (An Undisclosed Hospital in Shandong Province)

    Caller: I want a kidney from those who practice Falun Gong, one that's totally healthy.

    Doctor: Well...We will definitely have a lot of suppliers like that in April. The number of those suppliers is gradually increasing.

    Caller: Why are you going to have more in April?

    Doctor: I cannot tell you that because this involves... Anyway, there is no need to go into that. I cannot go into that with you.

    The Chinese Communist Party's Top Level Leadership Agreed to Deal With Class Enemies With Any Means

    According to witness, the Chinese Communist Party has openly declared Falun Gong to be "class enemies", turning Falun Gong practitioners into the target of its most severe suppression. The witness said that according to the latest decisions, the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee agreed to treat Falun Gong practitioners as "class enemies" and to handle them in any economically beneficial manner without having to report to higher authorities. In other words, Falun Gong practitioners, like many felons in China, are no longer regarded as human beings, but as raw materials for commercial products. They have become commodities.

    According to the witness from the military system, according to "the country's regulations," the provincial government has the authority to establish "recycling organizations" to process felons under the supervision of the military region in the province. This practice was established by a legal document that the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Committee established as early as 1962. This practice continues to this day. According the regulations in the document, death penalty prisoners and felons convicted of serious crimes may be processed according to the development needs of the state or of socialism. During the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the most extreme way to process these prisoners was to use their bodies for food. The second was to use them as slave labor for construction or line production work.

    According to the witness, after a 1984 amendment, it became legal to harvest organs from felons. The police and judicial departments perform organ harvests on living prisoners before cremating their bodies. Sometimes, they injure the prisoners in a show execution before they perform organ harvests on the injured prisoners. They then cremate their bodies. Since 1992, such a practice has become public. Due to the development of many related businesses, human bodies, live or dead, have become profitable raw materials.



    Washington DC: Rally in Front of White House to Commemorate Fellow Practitioners Murdered by CCP

    On the afternoon of March 27, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners and supporters held a rally in Lafayette Park near the White House and commemorated practitioners whose body organs were harvested and remains were cremated in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Sujiatun Concentration Camp. People from Washington, New York, Boston, Houston, California, Australia and Denmark strongly urged the US Government to immediately investigate and help stop the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.


    Falun Gong practitioners commemorate with tears the fellow practitioners killed in Sujiatun Concentration Camp


    Seven US Falun Gong Practitioner Associations urge US Government to investigate and help end the atrocities in Sujiatun

    Practitioners at the rally with white flowers on front held photo posters showing practitioners tortured to death and banners worded "Falun Dafa is Great" and "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance" in English and Chinese. Passersby were shocked by the solemn scene and came to learn the facts. TV stations and radio stations, including Reuters covered the event.

    World's People Awakening

    A Virginian resident working as an immigration policy consultant for the US government said he had been to China many times and was worried about the human rights there. Upon hearing of the atrocities in Sujiatun, he said that the CCP's crimes are inconceivable. He said he would try his best to have US officials he contacts to know and help end the CCP's atrocities, to rescue those Falun Gong practitioners being imprisoned.

    After accepting a handout on Sujiatun atrocities, a senior official in National Press Club invited Falun Gong practitioners to give a speech on the incident and the persecution of Falun Gong, to members of his organization.

    Mr. Chen from Denmark said, "Upon seeing the photos showing brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, my heart is continuously shivering."

    At the rally, US human rights lawyer Ye Ning kneeled down to commemorate towards the photo of practitioner Wang Bin who were tortured to death by the CCP (left photo) to express his respect to Falun Gong practitioners.

    Mr. Zhihua Hu from New York called on all circles to pay attention to his missing brother, Hu Zhiming. The CCP illegally imprisoned practitioner Zhiming for four years in 2000. Police arrested him again in September 2005. His whereabouts are not known. Mr. Hu asked the CCP, "Where is my brother?"

    Song Moves People's Hearts

    Falun Gong practitioner and famous tenor Mr. Guimin Guan and his wife Xiaoqun Zou sang a song that he composed two years ago for those practitioners tortured to death, "Let me see you off one more journey." The song tells of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

    The solemn song shocks everyone and many practitioners on site shed tears.

    Ms. Liu, in her 60s, with tears in eye said, "The song reminds me of the fellow practitioners in the same practice site in Beijing who were tortured to death."

    Ms. Mao said, "Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted so brutally. They are still saving the world's people. Seeing the world's people awakening, those practitioners tortured to death are gratified. Their blood was not shed in vain."

    Practitioner Ms. Zhang, 76, continuously clarified the truth to the world's people during the last seven years, come rain or wind, cold or hot. She said, "Practitioners suffer these hardships. They are truly compassionate and save people. It is our biggest wish to have Chinese people know the facts and awaken."

    Seven Falun Gong Practitioners' Associations Send a Letter to President Bush

    Spokesperson Mr. Jeff Chen representing Washington DC Falun Gong Practitioners' Association, Eastern U.S. Buddha's Study Falun Dafa Association (New York), Falun Dafa Association of New England, Mid-US Falun Dafa Association, Western U.S. Falun Dafa Association, Southeast Falun Dafa Association (Atlanta), and Southern USA Falun Dafa Association (Houston) urged the US Government to investigate and help stop the Sujiatun atrocities.

    Mr. Chen said, "The persecution against Falun Gong has lasted for seven years. CCP's policy towards practitioners has not changed, 'defaming their reputations, bankrupting them financially, and destroying them physically.' Under such a policy, the CCP can commit atrocities to persecute the practitioners."

    Practitioner Jerald Pearman representing the seven Falun Gong Practitioners' Associations to request meeting with President Bush and called on him to help stop the Sujiatun atrocities and the seven-year-long persecution against Falun Gong in China with all possible means.

    CCP's Atrocities Send a Warning to the World

    Mr. D.J. McGuire (Virginia), Founder and Executive Director, China e-Lobby, and President of China Support Network, said, "Why do we gather here today? Why in the capital of what is arguably the most powerful nation on earth? Why in what many consider the epicenter of the democratic world?"


    Mr. D.J. McGuire

    Mr. Morton Sklar

    "We gather here because Sujiatun is not only an act of unspeakable evil, it is a warning to those in the democratic world of what this regime is trying to hide, and why it feels it must survive to hide it - at any cost. Let us heed this warning, and work together to ensure that it is the democratic world that prospers and the CCP that perishes."

    Dr. Morton Sklar, Executive Director of the World Organization Against Torture/Human Rights, Law Professor, Human Rights Attorney, said that when genocide occurs, a death knell calls for everyone, and everyone can be a target of genocide.

    Mr. Zhiyuan Wang, representing World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), announced that an international investigation committee on Sujiatun Concentration Camp had been established to thoroughly investigate all criminals and bring all criminals to justice.

    The rally ended with a chorus "Falun Dafa is great." After the rally, practitioner representatives handed in to the White House several thousand signatures collected during the last few days.




    Taiwan: Exposing Sujiatun Atrocities and Collecting Signatures in the Rain at Chudong


    Little practitioners hold a banner in the rain

    Words on banner: "Living People Incinerated in Sujiatun, Shenyang"

    On the afternoon of Sunday, March 26, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Chudong Town, Hsinchu County, Taiwan protested the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp of harvesting body organs from living practitioners, trading organs, and cremating the practitioners' remains to destroy evidence. They also collected signatures to get people's support.


    Whole family signs to support righteousness and condemn CCP's atrocity

    Signing to support even while getting wet from rain

    Beipu Town is a renowned tourist site and one of the sites mainland tourists visit often. Falun Gong practitioners transported truth-clarification posters and banners to Beipu and set up several sites for truth-clarification and signature collection.

    Upon setting up the signature collection table, the sky became cloudy and a light rain started. The rain later became heavier. The practitioners did not wind up but kept righteous thoughts and continued the event. Visitors were shocked at the photos showing the brutal persecution against practitioners, and they slowed down to watch. The practitioners distributed handouts, explained the facts and asked for signatures to support the victims and condemn the CCP's brutality.

    There were many moving moments during the event. One tourist had a handshake with a practitioner and said with emotion, "Thank you. Thank you very much!"

    Some visitors praised the practitioners with a thumbs up, "You are great to do this!" One tourist did not want to sign in fear of the CCP. His colleague said, "Why are you afraid to sign?" Both of them signed. A father signed and called his whole family, "Come on, all of you sign!" Eight of them all signed on the cloth strip and left satisfied.

    After reading the posters, several dozen people came forward to sign without listening to the practitioner's explanation. A lady with an umbrella in hand called loudly, "Help me to sign! Help me to sign one!" Some tourists rushed to the tour bus after picking up truth-clarifying literature. Before the bus started, they came back to sign!

    Some asked the practitioners, "Do you accept donations?" After hearing that practitioners do not want money but call only for justice, the tourists signed and said they would tell more people. A lady from China signed and said with emotion, "The CCP is truly evil and can do any crime. My mom was imprisoned for three years for believing in Buddhism!" She condemned the CCP with her own experience.

    The rain continued alternating from light to heavy. The practitioners did not move but continued to explain the facts to tourists. A young practitioner insisted on saving people himself though his father objected because of his young age. He stood in the rain and held a poster for several hours.


    United Kingdom: Exposing the Sujiatun Horrors on the Streets of Edinburgh

    On Sunday March 19, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Edinburgh held an event to expose and condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the recent discovery of the appalling secret Sujiatun death camp, in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China.

    A Chinese journalist working for a Japanese news agency disclosed his knowledge of this death camp to international newspaper The Epoch Times. He claimed that since 2001, the camp, attached to a hospital in Shenyang, has held up to 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to denounce their beliefs. These people, whose basic human rights have been completely stripped away, are having their organs harvested, whilst still alive, and sold for medical transplants for huge prices. The practitioners' dead bodies are then incinerated on site to hide the evidence.

    The journalist stated that he thought that up to 4,000 Falun Gong practitioners had been abused in this way. To add to the tragedy and horror, the practitioners' families are unaware of what has happened to their loved ones, as the practitioners have been taken there in secret and no one has been seen coming in or going out.

    People stop to find out more about Falun Gong and the persecution against the practice in China

    The Edinburgh practitioners gave out leaflets specifically about the Sujiatun death camp and spoke to many passersby. People stopped to read the information boards about Sujiatun. Many people also signed a petition to the UK government urging them to investigate these atrocities. A practitioner talked about the horrors of the death camp on a PA system.

    Although the public has been shocked about the persecution in the past, the reaction from people to this latest incident was that they found the deeds committed in the camp truly abhorrent. This event coincided with 9 million people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the Chinese people continue finding out the true horrors the CCP has committed and that their futures are in jeopardy by being aligned with it, 20 to 30,000 per day are leaving the party.



    Ireland: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP's Atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp

    Upon knowing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set up the Sujiatun concentration camp in Shenyang City, committing the vicious crime of extracting and secretly trading Falun Gong practitioners' organs to get the benefit and then cremating their corpses, on March 25, 2006 the Falun Gong practitioners in Ireland went to the city center to disclose this evil crime committed by the CCP. Moreover, they held a hunger strike to protest the CCP's persecution, which has lasted around seven years, against the peaceful Falun Gong practitioners who follow the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

    Although it continued raining, the Falun Gong practitioners insisted on telling the truth and disclosing the evil in the rain. When the Irish people understood that the CCP had committed the Nazi-like brutal crimes, they felt indignant and signed to support Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful remonstrance in droves, and condemned this immense anti-human race crime committed by the CCP. Some people expressed that they would write letters to the MPs to appeal to them to be concerned and stop this Nazi-like concentration camp which cruelly persecutes Falun Gong practitioners in modern civilization society nowadays. An Irish citizen spontaneously passed out the materials after learning the truth, and helped the practitioners tell the truth of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun concentration camp to the passersby until all truth materials were passed out.

    The Irish Falun Gong practitioners said they would continue disclosing the incident of setting up the Sujiatun concentration camp to persecute Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. They will not stop disclosing the CCP's evil commitments if the persecution against Falun Gong doesn't stop.


    Lining up to sign in support of the Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful protest.

    This Irish citizen who understood the truth spontaneously helped the practitioners pass out the truth materials to passersby and told them of the persecution in Sujiatun concentration camp against Falun Gong.



    Malaysia: Appeal to Help Stop the Chinese Communist Regime's Atrocities at Sujiatun Is Delivered to Malaysian Government

    On March 27, 2006, practitioners from Malaysia submitted an appeal letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, calling on the Malaysian government to help stop the atrocities that the Chinese Communist regime committed by removing organs from living practitioners' bodies in the secret concentration camp at Sujiatun. On the same day, practitioners also delivered letters to Health Department, Internal Affairs Department and Foreign Affairs Department, to expose the inhuman atrocities at Sujiatun to the administration center of Malaysian government.


    Police authorities, media, officials from the Prime Minister's office and reporter came to the appealing conference site

    Practitioners came to the Prime Minister's office to submit the appeal letter at 11:00 a.m. The second secretary of the Prime Minister, Tuan Haji Ahmad Yaakob met them, learned about the situation, and promised to pass the letter on to the Prime Minister.

    In a speech, a Falun Dafa Association spokesman indicated that the chairman of the Political Consulting Committee of China, Jia Qinglin plans to visit Malaysia, and practitioners sincerely hope that the Malaysian government will urge the Chinese Communist regime to dismantle the Sujiatun concentration camp, and all similar camps.

    Pratitioners hold up appeal banners

    Outside of the Prime Minister's Office Building, practitioners announced a 24 hour hunger strike beginning at 10:00 a.m. on March 29, to strongly condemn the Chinese Communist regime's inhuman atrocities at Sujiatun.

    The Practitioners also delivered letters to other governmental sections, seeking their attention to this issue.

    This appeal drew attention from high levels of the Malaysian government. When practitioners went into the building to deliver the letter, many officials from the Prime Minister's Office Building, police authorities and reporters from the government accompanied the practitioners.