Lawmakers Hear From Organ Harvesting Investigators

Canadian Lawmakers Hear From Organ Harvesting Investigators
In "2006" international human rights lawyer David Matas and attorney David Kilgour released their initial investigative report into allegations of live organ harvesting in China, the primary organ source was Falun Gong practitioners.  Provided further down this post is their latest report, presented at a House of Commons hearing on Nov 3, 2016.

Here is a little background on the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China;

Chinese Spiritual Practice
Falun Gong, is a Chinese spiritual practice for mind and body is centered on the belief of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. The spiritual practice began in China in 1992 and was soon banned by the Chinese government in 1999, what followed were allegations of the arrest and execution of tens of thousands of followers by Chinese authorities.

Brief history of the plight of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China
On 20 July 1999, the Communist Party leadership initiated a nationwide crackdown and multifaceted propaganda campaign intended to eradicate the practice. It blocked Internet access to websites that mention Falun Gong, and in October 1999 it declared Falun Gong a "heretical organization" that threatened social stability. Falun Gong practitioners in China are reportedly subject to a wide range of human rights abuses: hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been imprisoned extrajudicially, and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities. As of 2009, human rights groups estimated that at least 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners had died as a result of abuse in custody. Some observers put the number much higher, and report that tens of thousands may have been killed to supply China's organ transplant industry.
Source - Wikipedia

Former Chinese Hospital Worker’s Account of Organ Harvesting
In an article published last month from China Uncensored, an employee who worked at the Tianjin First Central Hospital in the mid-2000s also known as the Orient Organ Transplant Center because it was located in China and had an extremely large amount of organ transplant patients, provided a statement to New Tang Dynasty Television about the experience;

I’m currently living in mainland China. Once, I worked at the organ transplant center in Tianjin First Central Hospital. What I’ve learned could perhaps serve as a rare warning to those who persist in persecuting Falun Gong. It’s also a cautionary tale for my fellow countrymen with a conscience.

Many of the foreign transplant patients came to China looking for a liver or kidney. The bulk of these foreigners were South Koreans, while the rest came from Japan or Taiwan.

At the time, I wasn’t aware that the organs these foreigners had spent large sums of money to purchase came from Falun Gong practitioners. Many of us were too naive, and didn’t imagine that those blinded by money had in fact been brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Read a translation of the complete statement, here.

Nov 4

Canadian Lawmakers Hear From Organ Harvesting Investigators

Matas and Kilgour provided a briefing

on organ transplantation abuse in China

By Epoch Times 

Human rights subcommittee urged to help stop organ pillaging from prisoners of conscience in China

OTTAWA—Two investigators who have spent 10 years researching evidence of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China told Parliament’s human rights subcommittee that the practice of killing for profit-driven transplants continues unabated in China today.

International human rights lawyer David Matas and former Crown attorney and cabinet minister David Kilgour presented the findings of their latest report, released in June, at a House of Commons hearing on Nov. 3.

Based on an analysis of over 700 organ transplantation centres in China, the report indicated that Chinese hospitals have performed an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants a year since the year 2000, and that most of the organs were sourced from innocents—Uyghurs, Tibetans, House Christians, with Falun Gong practitioners being the primary source....
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Nov 2
Six Ways to Stop Organ Harvesting in China
A forum in Germany proposes a series of concrete responses to abuses in China

By Wen Jing and Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times

BERLIN, Germany—China’s practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs has been part of discussions about human rights in China for a decade, but responses to it have always been vexing. What should the West do in the face of what some researchers have called “a new form of evil”? A set of six proposals was the response, as suggested by German lawmakers and leading international researchers on the topic, who gathered for a public forum at the Hotel Albrechtshof in downtown Berlin recently.

Pass Laws Preventing ‘Transplant Tourism’
China’s organ transplant boom has been fueled in part by foreign tourists who travel there to receive a kidney, liver, or heart. Israel, Spain, and Taiwan have passed laws denying insurance coverage or criminalizing this practice, and MEP Gerick said that Germany should also have such a law.....
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Nov 3

Group protests horrors of organ harvesting
Posted on November 3, 2016 by Vauxhall Advance

By Greg Price
Vauxhall Advance
gprice@tabertimes.com
A nation-wide movement made its way to Vauxhall on Tuesday to raise awareness of the plight of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, resulting in the slaughtering of its followers for their organs in a lucrative billion-dollar market.
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