Vienna - A Canadian researcher
visiting Vienna accused China on Tuesday of Nazi-style atrocities against *Falun
Gong* members.
Exactly the same as under the Nazis
was happening now in China. The treatment of the Falun Gong also reminded him
of Roman Emperor Nero's persecution of the Christians, said Canadian Asia expert
David Kilgour.
"I think the church should help."
Anyone could be the scapegoat of the Chinese government - Christians or Tibetans
as well.
Appearing with Kilgour at a press
conference, President of the International Society for Human Rights, Katharina
Grieb, said she was horrified at the situation in China, which was "the world's
biggest concentration camp."
"Whether Uighurs, Christians,
Tibetans or Falun Gong supporters, all are exposed to brutal persecution." For
the Falun Gong, a separate bureau had been set up with the number 610. It
reminded her of the dreaded Nazi Gestapo secret police.
Kilgour presented his report,
complied with fellow Canadian researcher David Matas and published in July, on
forced organ extractions from Falun Gong members in China.
He and Matas said there were
reoccuring cases of prisoners being killed so that their organs could be taken
out and sold for transplants.
There was new evidence, said
Kilgour. He had spoken with a recipient of a kidney in China who had been
offered eight different organs within ten days. Each day a fresh one had come.
The military doctor treating him
had openly admitted that the organs came from executed prisoners. "The Falun
Gong members are selected for killing like lobsters," said Kilgour.
This week Beijing had officially
admitted that there was organ transplant tourism to China. Foreigners who could
pay more than Chinese were given preferential treatment.
The situation had hardly improved
despite new legislation saying that for transplants in civilian hospitals,
permission from the donor had to be given.
Grieb said the situation was not
like in India, where donors sometimes gave a kidney for the sake of money. They
were able to go on living afterwards.
In China, the hearts and livers
were taken out of Falun Gong members too, and their bodies then burned to
remove the evidence.
Kilgour said that in the case of
Falun Gong members, the process was easy, as they were unprotected by the law
and their deaths could be passed off as suicide. The result was that soldiers
arrived at hospitals bearing "containers full of organs."
The Chinese government banned Falun Gong in 1999. Human rights organizations say that since then, thousands have been sent to labour or "re-education" camps without trial.