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Statement from the Chinese Embassy in Canada is Unable to Deny the Facts Regarding Organ Harvesting
By a Falun Gong practitioner in Canada
(Clearwisdom.net)
On July 26, 2006, officials at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa, Canada
held a press conference and published a statement in which the
embassy denies that organ harvesting from living Falun Gong
practitioners has ever taken place in China. The statement also
attacks the two independent investigators, Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas,
and the Falun Gong cultivation group. The statement ignores the important facts and evidence addressed
in the independent report, twists the content and meaning
of the report, and incites hatred against Falun
Gong.
In addition to denying the authenticity
of the report, the embassy officials
used the majority of their statement--five out of eight
paragraphs--to attack Falun Gong.
Falun Gong
practitioners in Canada feel obligated to respond to the embassy's
statement. This article provides a detailed analysis of the
points expressed in the Chinese embassy's statement. We will see who
"promotes lies and false accusations that are biased and totally
groundless." We believe the readers will draw the correct
conclusions.
Being unable
to deny the facts of live organ harvesting equals admitting the
charges The statement from the
Chinese Embassy is full of irrational conclusions and empty
accusations. It completely ignores the facts and evidence presented in
the independent report. The
statement does not provide any reasonable explanation based on
fact to address any of the 18 categories of evidence presented in the independent report. These important facts include: the Chinese Communist Party's
(CCP) genocidal persecution policy against Falun Gong; its nationwide
persecution; hate propaganda; large scale arrests; the large number
of Falun Gong practitioners missing; widespread blood tests of
detained Falun Gong practitioners; actual incidents of removing
organs from Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death; large
numbers of transplant surgeries using organs of unknown sources;
telephone recordings from organ transplant doctors who admitted using
Falun Gong practitioners' organs; testimony from the ex-wife of a
surgeon who performed organ removals, and all the criminal evidence
that appeared on Chinese websites. The Chinese embassy's statement
does at least prove one point: the CCP cannot deny the charges with facts. This indicates that the conclusions of the independent report
are based on a solid footing.
The
statement says, "China bans human organ sales." The
investigators responded to this claim in their report, saying,
"This statement was belied by the facts. The China International
Transplantation Network Assistance Centre Website until April of this
year set out a price list for transplants. (i.e. a heart costs
US$160,000) The price list was removed from the website in April, but
is still archived. As well, many individuals can attest to paying for
organ transplants in China." The Changzheng Hospital
website in Shanghai still has a price list up even now: "The
cost for a liver transplant is 200,000 Yuan, and the average wait
time for a liver transplant at our hospital is one week."
About the embassy's claim that China has
consistently abided by the principle stipulating that donors' written
consent must be obtained beforehand, the independent report pointed
out, "The other identified sources of organ transplants, willing
family donors and the brain dead, have always been tiny. In 2005,
living-related kidney transplant consists of 0.5% of total
transplants nation-wide. The total of brain dead donors for all years
and all of China is 9 up to March 2006." Where do the other
99% of the organs come from?
The independent report says,
"There is no indication of a significant increase in either
of these categories in recent years. Presumably the identified
sources of organ transplants which produced 18,500 organ transplants
in the six year period 1994 to 1999 produced the same number of
organs for transplants in the next six year period 2000 to 2005. That
means that the source of 41,500 transplants for the six year period
2000 to 2005 is unexplained. Where do the organs come from for the
41,500 transplants? The allegation of organ harvesting from Falun
Gong practitioners provides an answer." The
authors of the independent report wrote, "Every
finding we make is sourced and independently verifiable." If the
CCP officials cannot provide any reasonable explanation or denial for
the "verifiable" key facts, then we can conclude that the
charges in the independent report are true; namely, "there
has been and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from
unwilling Falun Gong practitioners." Denying
the existence of secret concentration camps cannot prove one's
innocence Every time the Chinese
embassy denies organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, they
quote a U.S. embassy official who said, "We did not find
evidence showing this hospital's function exceeds that of a typical
hospital." But the U.S. embassy official visited the hospital
several weeks after the the crimes at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp
were exposed, and the official on tour was accompanied by the
hospital's leadership. Think about it: let's say a murderer kills
someone, then he cleans up the crime site and disposes of the
evidence. Later, the killer takes people to view the site to
prove his innocence. Of course people will not get to see any
evidence. On the one hand, the murderer had
enough time to move the detainees and clean up the crime site. On the
other hand, the surgical equipment used to remove Falun Gong
practitioners' organs is not different from ordinary surgical
equipment; how could a visitor tell whether this equipment had been
used to remove organs or not? The official did
not find evidence. This merely means the official did not see an
organ harvesting procedures during that particular visit, but that
does not prove that "the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong
practitioners in secret concentration camps" never happened.
The CCP slaughtered hundreds of students and citizens with heavy weapons during the Tiananmen Square
massacre in 1989, but after they washed the blood away, they denied that they ever
killed anyone, and continue to do so today.
Likewise, a couple of years ago when SARS was spreading in China, the
CCP moved SARS patients around by bus surreptitiously,
playing hide-and-seek with the World Health Organization
investigators.
Organ harvesting from
living Falun Gong practitioners is not confined to one hospital, or
only to several doctors; it is a widespread practice in many places
in China. If the CCP indeed wants to prove its innocence, then it
should open all the forced labor camps, detention centers, prisons
and hospitals to an unimpeded international investigation and let the
facts be known to the world.
Twisting the facts to
cause confusion
The embassy's July 26
statement intentionally interchanged "cornea removal" with
"cornea implantation surgery" and furthermore attacked the
witnesses and their testimony, asserting the claim that the doctor
"personally removed the corneas from approximately 2000
anesthetized Falun Gong prisoners "Cornea removal" and
"cornea transplant surgery" are completely different
operations. According to British Optometrist Dr. Mohan Rajan, an eye
ball removal operation takes only 10 to 20 minutes. (please refer
http://www.webhealthcentre.com/expertspeak/eye_donation.asp,
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20050830/3008307.htm for detail)
Therefore, a doctor would be quite capable of completing three cornea
removal operations per day, which is not a "ridiculous lie."
In fact, what
the surgeon did was to "remove corneas from approximately
2000 anesthetized Falun Gong prisoners." Not only that, these Falun Gong practitioners' other important organs
such as kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs were removed by other
surgeons. After the slaughter took place, their remains were
cremated.
The CCP has
turned the doctors into murderers driven by profit and oppressive
policy. This is a cruel crime against humanity.
Chinese embassy statement
brings hate propaganda to Canada again The Chinese embassy stops at nothing to instigate
conflict. It claims that Falun Gong practitioners are a tiny
minority among the Chinese people, as if the number of people has
given the totalitarian government an excuse to trample their human
rights. One cannot help but recall the CCP's evil logic of using
"majorities" to crush "minorities," and to
instigate hatred of those being persecuted in all of its past political
movements. The Chinese embassy's statement vividly reveals the
CCP's nature of using its power to despotically bully the weak, setting people at odds, and estranging the
populace. The statement is full of slanderous hate propaganda against Falun Gong.
When independent
investigator Mr. Matas was interviewed about the Chinese
embassy statement, he said: "This is an exact copy of the CCP's
smear campaign against Falun Gong. This kind of slandering to some
degree was one of the factors that led to today's investigation. I
mean, there is a group of people; they were isolated and labeled as
aliens; their rights were taken away; they were treated as unworthy
people and insulted; finally they were no longer being viewed as
humans. Then harvesting organs from them became much easier." The
two investigators have respected legal backgrounds. In their response to the statement, they wrote: "Calling the Falun Gong an evil cult
exemplifies the vilification heaped on the Falun Gong.
It is this sort of slander which, in China, depersonalizes and
dehumanizes the Falun Gong and makes possible the violation of their
basic human rights. Calling a group of innocent civilians an 'evil
cult' is a form of incitement to hatred, unacceptable in Canada.
It is an abuse of their diplomatic presence in Canada for China to
engage in this form of incitement." We are fully confident
that the facts will reveal to all people that the CCP, while hiding
behind a nation and its people and portraying itself as a creator of
happiness, has actually been perpetrating what the independent investigators called "a grotesque form of
evil which, despite all the deprivations humanity has seen, would be
new to this planet."
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