News and Events from around the World -- March 12, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • WOIPFG Launches Investigation of Sujiatun Concentration Camp Authorities

  • Hong Kong Falun Gong Practitioners Strongly Protest the CCP's Terrorist Atrocities

  • New York: Falun Gong Practitioners Strongly Condemn CCP's Genocidal Crimes at Sujiatun Concentration Camp

  • San Francisco: Practitioners Protest Secret Concentration Camp with Hunger Strike

  • Holland Media Exposes Atrocity of Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang



  • WOIPFG Launches Investigation of Sujiatun Concentration Camp Authorities

    World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) announced on March 10 that it was launching a thorough investigation of those suspected to be involved in the persecution and murder of practitioners at Sujiatun Concentration Camp.

    The statement said that according to informants and initial verification, the Chinese Communist Party regime set up a secret concentration camp in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang city. The camp is suspected to specialize in detaining and killing practitioners to harvest their bodily organs for profit. The camp has a crematory and corpses are cremated at the camp. Reportedly, several thousand practitioners have been transferred to the camp from other regions. They are being detained in the camp and face slaughter at any time so their organs can be harvested for profit.

    The announcement encourages all people with information to please come forward and provide names of: individuals who planned and carried out orders to set up the concentration camp; individuals from political and legal system and police officers who were involved in the arrest, transfer and murder of practitioners; medical staff involved in the harvest and sale of practitioners' organs; individuals involved in cremating practitioners' bodies, and other staff at the camp. To protect informants who provide us important evidence, WOIPFG will help them to leave China and obtain asylum status. For practitioners who have disappeared after being arrested, their family members are asked to take immediate action to demand to know the whereabouts of their loved ones from the Chinese Communist regime.

    To all those who have participated in the crimes, the announcement stated, "No matter where they try to hide, they will surely be brought to justice no matter how long it takes.


    Hong Kong Falun Gong Practitioners Strongly Protest the CCP's Terrorist Atrocities

    When the appalling news about the secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp, built by the CCP for eradicating Falun Gong practitioners, was exposed and people from all walks of life inside and outside China were shocked and enraged, a group of Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners marched to the front gate of the Chinese Liaison Office on March 10, 2006 to strongly protest the CCP's barbaric practice of killing Falun Gong practitioners and removing their internal organs for sale. They also called upon the international community to conduct an independent investigation and stop the CCP from killing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.


    English Epoch Times Newspaper Editor Stephen Gregory makes a speech outside Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong

    Dozens of Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners peacefully protest on the sidewalk opposite the back door of the Chinese Liaison Office Building
    Hong Kong practitioners protest the CCP's terrorist atrocity of building a secret concentration camp to kill and cremate Falun Gong practitioners

    Dozens of Falun Gong practitioners peacefully sat outside the Chinese Liaison Office on March 10, 2006. At 2:00 p.m., practitioners paraded from their protest site to the front gate of the Chinese Liaison Office to read a statement. They pointed out that the CCP's barbarity in building the secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp to persecute Falun Gong practitioners has gone beyond people's imagination. It indicates that the CCP has systematically employed a large-scale, three-step procedure in its persecution of Falun Gong--killing them, making a profit on their organs, and cremating them to eliminate the evidence. In the 21st century, the CCP is using the same brutal means that the Nazis used against the Jews to persecute the peaceful and kind Falun Gong practitioners. It is so inhuman and barbaric. If such crimes go unpunished, civilization will no longer exist. An editor of the English Epoch Times newspaper who is visiting Hong Kong, Stephen Gregory, said in his speech that Sujiatun is a symbol of barbarity. From today on, we clearly know that this is a battle between civilization and barbarity.

    Falun Gong practitioners called upon the international community to make an independent investigation into this concentration camp, and stop the killing and persecution. They expressed that the exposure of the crematorium indicates that all of the inhuman means the CCP has used to persecute Falun Gong will sooner or later be exposed by insiders with a sense of justice. The more frenzied the CCP's persecution is, the more opposition it will incur from people with a sense of justice, and the faster it accelerates its demise. Zhou Sheng, who earlier had a false charge brought against her by the Hong Kong government at the behest of the CCP, expressed that the CCP is afraid of having its dirty things exposed. The CCP's high-ranking officials especially fear being sued overseas. Many people are working inside the CCP system only as a means of survival. She believes that those people with a conscience and courage will provide more and more evidence.

    Some Falun Gong practitioners continued their protest hunger strike outside the Chinese Liaison Office until 9:00 a.m. the next morning.


    New York: Falun Gong Practitioners Strongly Condemn CCP's Genocidal Crimes at Sujiatun Concentration Camp

    On the afternoon of March 11, 2006, nearly 200 Falun Gong practitioners from the New York Metropolitan Area and other supporters rallied in front of the Chinese Consulate. They strongly condemned the Chinese Communist regime's barbaric crimes of building a Nazi-style concentration camp in Sujiatun where they secretly and illegally detain and kill Falun Gong practitioners, remove their internal organs for profit and cremate their bodies to eliminate the evidence of their crimes.

    New York Metropolitan Area Falun Gong practitioners protest in front of Chinese Consulate

    Denounce CCP's atrocities, and call for rescuing family members who are missing as a result of the persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Huang Wanqing denounced the CCP's barbaric crimes at the rally, and called for help to rescue his younger brother Huang Xiong, who has been missing for three years. Huang Xiong began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After the CCP started the persecution in 1999, Huang Xiong was illegally sentenced to forced labor for persisting in his practice of Falun Gong and later he became homeless to avoid persecution. The police searched for him everywhere to try to arrest him. His last phone call with Dr. Huang Wanqing was in April 2003 from Shanghai. He disappeared on April 19, and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since. Huang Xiong's relatives in the US and inside China have been looking for him and are worried very much about his safety. An officer from the Shanghai police once said that they knew about Huang Xiong's situation but could not tell others.  


    Huang Wanqing calls for rescuing his younger brother who has been missing for years

    Dr. Huang Wanqing, in grief and indignation, said that he had heard nothing about his brother Huang Xiong in the past three years, and he worried about him very much upon learning about the crimes of a secret concentration camp in Sujiatun where Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally detained, killed and had their internal organs removed by the doctors working there for profit. He called upon people from all walks of life to take immediate action to stop the CCP's atrocities of killing people to eliminate the evidence of its crimes before its complete collapse. 

    Hu Zhihua calls upon people from all walks of life to show concern for his brother, Hu Zhiming's whereabouts

    Falun Gong practitioner Hu Zhihua also called upon people from all walks of life to show concern for his younger brother Hu Zhiming's whereabouts. In 1998, Hu Zhiming was promoted to be deputy director for the Computer Department of Beijing Air Force Military Training Equipment. He had the military rank of squadron leader. He had received many awards. In 1999, the persecution of Falun Gong in the military system began. Hu Zhiming left home and became homeless in order to avoid the persecution. In October 2001, the family was informed that Hu Zhiming had been sentenced to four years in prison. Shortly after being released from prison in September 2005, he was once again arrested by Beijing police and national security officers who also ransacked his home. He has been missing since then, and his whereabouts are unknown.

    Hu Zhihua said that the CCP is extremely evil. The atrocities and terror of the secret concentration camp in Sujiatun make him worry very much about his younger brother's safety, but this is nothing but the CCP's last gasp before its demise. He called upon all righteous people to join together to expose the atrocities of the CCP and disintegrate it as soon as possible.

    Calling upon the international community to pay close attention and stop the CCP from killing Falun Gong practitioners to eliminate its crimes

    Representative of the Global Committee to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioners Mr. Zhu Hanru made a speech and pointed out that the atrocity of the secret concentration camp in Sujiatun is an extension of the Jiang's regime's state-terrorist policy against innocent Falun Gong practitioners that was established in the early stage of the persecution: "defame their reputation, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically." It is the CCP's policy to secretly commit genocide and destroy the evidence before its demise. During the process, these Falun Gong practitioners may also have been used for various experiments, and after their internal organs were removed, they would be cremated. He called upon the international community to pay close attention and stop the CCP's barbaric killing.

    Falun Gong practitioner Yi Rong stated that overseas Falun Gong practitioners have exposed the CCP's appalling atrocities to different social strata, and called upon the international community to conduct an investigation immediately. They are also calling upon all kind-hearted people to show concern and provide information.  

    A representative for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), Liang Yufeng, stated that WOIPFG published an announcement on March 10, indicating their intention to thoroughly investigate all suspects who have participated in killing Falun Gong practitioners at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. All perpetrators who participate in crimes at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp "will surely be brought to justice." The organization will bring this investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and deep we have to search, to full closure.

    Inhuman actions are accelerating the CCP's demise

    A representative of the Global Service for Quitting the CCP, Mr. Li Dayong, said that the barbaric killing of Falun Gong practitioners at the CCP's Sujiatun Concentration Camp is only speeding up its demise. More and more people have seen the CCP's inhuman and evil nature, and the wave of quitting the CCP is getting higher and higher. More than 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners are being illegally detained and tortured in the secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang. This fact alone is enough to allow the world's people to see more clearly the CCP's evil nature. We call upon more people to break away from the CCP's control as soon as possible, and let us work together to stop the evil.

    Some people from communities who love freedom and democracy also made speeches at the rally, expressing their shock at the CCP's heartless crimes. They also expressed that this is an indication of the CCP's impending demise.


    San Francisco: Practitioners Protest Secret Concentration Camp with Hunger Strike

    A former journalist made it public that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are detained in a secret concentration camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang in China. There is a crematorium in the camp. Many doctors stay there. Nobody has come out of the camp. Practitioners' internal organs are harvested for illegal sale on the black market and then cremated to destroy the evidence.

    People around the world in all walks of life are shocked and alarmed. Families of abducted and missing Falun Gong practitioners are in deep worry. To protest this newest atrocity, Falun Gong practitioners in San Francisco Bay Area initiated a relay hunger strike and rallied in front of the Chinese Consulate General, calling on the international community to investigate and stop the murder.


    Practitioners in San Francisco Bay Area rally in front of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco to call for support.

    The journalist said there were very few Falun Gong practitioners in Masanjia Labor Camp and Dabei Second Jail, two places notorious for detaining and brutally torturing Falun Gong practitioners. Most practitioners had been transferred to Sujiatun. Practitioners in the three northeast provinces and mid-China were also being transferred to Sujiatun.

    Falun Gong spokesperson Sherry Zhang said the news about the illegal organ harvest and murder in the concentration camp demonstrates the critical condition of Falun Gong practitioners in China. She called for the international community to pay immediate attention to this case.


    "Do you know what happened?" People come in and out of the Chinese Consulate for visas. They read Falun Gong practitioners' banners. Some take truth-clarification materials. Some talked to practitioners to find out details.

    Computer Engineer Mr. Hu Zhihua expressed his increased concern and worry about his missing brother. His brother Hu Zhiming was a former deputy director for the Computer Department of the Research Institute of Beijing Air Force Military Training Equipment. He had the rank of squadron leader. He was discharged and thrown in prison for remaining steadfast in his conviction to practice Falun Gong. Between Sept. 23 and Sept. 25, 2005, Beijing Police and National Security Department searched his home and abducted him. He has been missing since. Hu Zhihua has been calling for help to find his brother.

    Dr. Charles Li, who had just regained freedom after three years of CCP imprisonment and torture, told this reporter, "I would like to express my indignation about this fascist atrocity. I hope the international community will urge the CCP to open this concentration camp to investigation and stop the killing."


    Dr. Charles Li, who has recently returned to the U.S. after three years in jail in China, calls for the international community to investigate the secret concentration camp in Sujiatun and stop the killing.

    Charles Li started a hunger strike in the morning. He said the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP had been more than six years and had been escalating. More than 2800 Falun Gong practitioners are confirmed dead from persecution. In addition, a large number of practitioners are missing after being abducted by CCP police. He called for the world society to investigate their whereabouts.

    Various parties have confirmed the illegal harvest of bodily organs from detainees in China. Some bloody death cases of Falun Gong practitioners, collected by the Minghui website, reveal mysterious holes and surgical incisions on the bodies of practitioners tortured to death. In some cases, autopsies were conducted without families' consent. Insiders have reported the theft and sale of Falun Gong practitioners' organs after they were tortured to death during detention.

    In May, 2005, Masonic Center in San Francisco had 21 unidentified bodies from China on display. It triggered great concern. The skin of these bodies had been taken off. Some had missing organs. They were displayed in different poses. Some skin was hung with hangers. It was said that the sponsor spent more than 3 million dollars on these bodies and organs. There were such exhibitions in eight other places of the world. Each ticket for the San Francisco exhibition cost $17. Eighty-five percent of the benefit went back to China. ABC reported the bodies were bought from a university in Beijing. However, when the reporter called the university, the person in charge didn't know anything about it. The reporter asked the Masonic Center about it, but the employees of the Masonic Center had been asked not to discuss the source of the bodies and to answer that they didn't know.

    Another Falun Gong practitioner on hunger strike, Mr. Lu Zhiping, said selling Falun Gong practitioners' organs and cremating their bodies in Sujiatun Concentration Camp was actually an implementation of Jiang Zemin's genocidal and national terrorism policy of "ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically." He called for people of all walks of life to speak out their voice of justice and to stop the CCP tyranny.


    Holland Media Exposes Atrocity of Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang

    On March 10, 2006, Holland Media "APS" published an article entitled "Concentration Camp for Falun Gong Disclosed, Prisoners Killed for Organ Harvesting," reporting on an appalling crime revealed by an insider who recently exposed to the outside world about a secret concentration camp built in Sujiatun in Shenyang. After practitioners died as a result of persecution, the prison guards and doctors would remove and sell their internal organs for profit.

    The article stated that since the Nuremberg Trials came to a close in 1946, condemning the Nazi officials who were responsible for the Holocaust, it has been the common hope of the people in the world that concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau would never again emerge in the history of mankind. The horrifying fact is that a similar facility is at this very moment in operation in China.

    This Wednesday, March 8, 2006, the European Falun Gong Information Centre received shocking, detailed information from a Chinese Communist Party insider documenting a concentration camp set up in Shenyang city, Liaoning province, expressly for Falun Gong practitioners.

    The news comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of State 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on Wednesday; the reports cited continued, systematic abuses of the Falun Gong in China.

    The article stated that information about the camp was relayed via audio recording from a former intelligence agent of the CCP regime. It is the first time news of the secret camp's existence was disclosed to outsiders. The camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners at any given time, and 'nobody has yet to come out' from it alive. According to the source, it contains a crematorium, and an unusually large number of doctors work there, reflecting the camp's practice of killing prisoners for their organs, which are then sold for profit.

    Falun Gong practitioners are killed for their organs, which are sent off to various medical facilities. Organ sales is now a highly profitable business in China...

    The source tried to convey the horror of what is happening in the concentration camp: 'Why was a crematorium built, and why are so many doctors housed there? ... The answer is something unimaginable. You must be clear that a cremator for bodies is different than a burner used for sanitation purposes.'

    The source said, "Located in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang city, the camp, dubbed the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, is surrounded by walls three meters high topped with electrified barbed wire. It is heavily fortified and said to be highly secret; locals know close to nothing about it. Those held inside are Falun Gong practitioners from China's three northeastern provinces as well as central China; many are said to have been transferred there from various labor camps. CCP authorities involved with the camp have 'learned many things from North Korea.'"

    'This is deeply, terribly disturbing, and confirms our worst fears: that CCP authorities remain intent on 'eradicating' Falun Gong, and in their desperation will go to any lengths,' stated EFGIC spokesperson Mr. Peter Jauhal. 'We need to be clear that the persecution has not gone away, it has merely become darker and more hidden.'

    The CCP source spoke at length about the unlawful 'harvesting' of organs in the Sujiatun facility. 'If Falun Dafa practitioners are sent to Sujiatun,' he said, 'they have no chance of coming out ... The CCP won't let a prisoner consume food forever. So what are they up to, then? ... the Falun Dafa practitioners are killed for their organs, which are sent off to various medical facilities. Organ sales is now a highly profitable business in China.'

    'They can't find enough bodies through executions, and no bodies are more readily available for this business than those of the [Falun Dafa] practitioners,' he stated.

    The article states that warning signs have surfaced in recent months, that the CCP intends in desperation to eradicate Falun Gong.

    The article states that according to the Paris-based Intelligence Online, last June CCP authorities reportedly held a 'crisis meeting' in which China's deputy minister of Public Security, Liu Jing, was assigned the job of 'stamping out' Falun Gong 'before the Olympic Games in 2008.' Several reports have stated that authorities wish to use the Olympics as a pretext to deepen their assault on the Falun Gong.

    The article cites a report from Reuters that this past January Chinese officials similarly announced a 'new campaign' that would supposedly 'sabotage activities of cult organizations' as part of a 'complex struggle against enemies.' Past campaigns to 'strike hard' have resulted in upwards of 10,000 plus executions in a single year, say human rights groups.

    Word of concentration camps for Falun Gong practitioners has circulated for several years. On October 1, 2000, report by Agence France Presse told of two concentration camps having been recently built, both specifically for Falun Gong detainees. The camps were said to have been built in northwest and northeast China, and capable of each holding up to 50,000 persons.

    The article cites an article on Minghui.net published on October 6, 2000. It said that a concentration camp, expressly for the Falun Gong, had been built in the remote northwestern province of Xinjiang. Chinese sources report seeing Falun Gong practitioners shipped off on trains to the Xinjiang camp. Little to no information on the secretive camp has emerged. No one to date is known to have come back from the camp.

    The article finally cites Mr. Jauhal's words, 'International media and governments around the world must pay attention to this and take active measures to investigate the concentration camp and put a stop to this barbarity and madness. We are calling for all possible support from international organizations. There must be accountability in China. If this is the price people are paying for our silence, it is chillingly tragic.