(Clearwisdom.net) According to the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation report on August 17, 2006, Australian opposition
foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd stated in an interview that he supports
conducting an investigation into the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun
Gong practitioners.
Rudd said that a few weeks ago, one of his constituents sent him a copy of
the investigative report entitled "Report into Allegations of Organ
Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China." He read it and was deeply
disturbed by it. Rudd said, "What I did in response to it was then send it
by letter to the Department of Foreign Affairs to ask for their views on its
contents. And recently, I've received a reply from the Department as well."
Rudd thought that the Australian Foreign Affairs Department
raised this matter to the Chinese side during the bilateral human rights
dialogue with China. He said the Foreign Affairs Department stated in the letter
replied to him that the matter has been raised. The Department's proposition to
the Chinese was that there should be some independent investigation of this
matter.
Rudd said that he supports the government's proposal that
there should be an independent investigation. These allegations are very
serious.