A leading Canadian politician has alleged that the Chinese government
is harvesting organs from imprisoned members of religious organisation Falun
Gong.
Presenting
his report, 'Bloody Harvest’, David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State,
Asia Pacific, claimed that up to 40,000 organ transplants had been carried out
using body parts taken from members of the controversial group imprisoned in
labour camps.
While Kligour and co-author David Matas admit that there is
no concrete evidence to support their claims directly, they point to the
experiences of Falun Gong members who are routinely medically checked while
detained. They also point out the remarkable ease with which organs can be
obtained by Chinese hospitals: while in most of the western world, finding a
suitable donor can take at least two years, Chinese hospitals advertising organ
transplants claim that organs can be obtained in a matter of weeks. According to
the report, one person who travelled to China for a transplant was presented
with four different ‘fresh’ kidneys over a two-week period.
The Chinese
government has been engaged in brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement
since 1999. The movement, which has an estimated membership of 70 million in
China, claims to be solely focused on ‘mental and physical health’, through
exercises in the Chinese Quigong tradition. However, the government has
characterised it as an ‘evil cult’.
In a written statement, the Chinese
embassy in London told Index:'The evidence in the report, if it can be
called evidence, is impossible to be testified [sic]. The practice to collect
evidence is to call someone maybe in China who can not be identified, and obtain
a lot of amazing stories of organ harvesting. We don’t know what the authors’
intention by doing this. [There are]logic mistakes throughout the full report. A
lot of data, like the number of organ transplant operations, cannot accord with
each other in the context.'
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