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‘It Robs Us of Our Humanity’: Speakers
at International Conference Condemn
Beijing’s Illicit Organ Harvesting, Call
for Action
BY
ANDREW CHEN February 26, 2021 Updated: February 27, 2021biggersmaller Print
Over
100 organizations from around the world came together this week in an online
conference to shine a light on one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most
egregious crimes—killing prisoners of conscience to supply China’s lucrative
organ transplantation industry.
According
to the organizers of the Feb. 24 event, which was co-hosted by the
International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse and the Victims of Communism
Memorial Foundation, for the last two decades the CCP has been “systematically
executing people on demand” to provide organs for transplantation.
“For
the victims, which include political prisoners, Falun Gong practitioners, and
Uyghurs, it is not just the harvesting of their organs, it is also a harvesting
of their life,” the organizers said in announcing the conference.
“For
the rest of us, it robs us of our humanity and forever poisons our capacity of
being human.”
The
conference brought together officials and dignitaries from over 25 countries,
117 organizations, and 12 universities worldwide. The keynote speaker was Sir
Geoffrey Nice QC, who led the prosecution of former Serbian president Slobodan
Milošević at the UN and more recently chaired the China Tribunal, a people’s
tribunal looking into forced organ harvesting.
Among
the guest speakers were Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas; Sean Lin, the
communications director for the Falun Dafa Association in Washington, D.C.; and
Wendy Rogers, a professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney,
Australia.
“Clearly,
the Chinese Communist Party bears ultimate responsibility for forced organ
harvesting. It is the CCP which has sanctioned the persecution of victim groups
and permitted the development of industrial scale organ transplantation in
China,” Rogers said at the conference.
Calls for International Actions Against CCP
The
CCP’s organ harvesting crimes were first exposed by Matas and former cabinet
minister David Kilgour in the early 2000s, when they investigated allegations
of forced harvesting of organs from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in
China. Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a traditional meditation practice based on
the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, and its adherents have
been subjected to a persecution campaign by the CCP since 1999.
Their
investigation culminated in a report titled published in 2006, which found that
the allegations were true and that the organ harvesting was sanctioned by the
state. It was followed by a book (pdf) titled “Bloody Harvest: The Killing of
Falun Gong for Their Organs.”
Lin,
a survivor of 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, told the panel that it is time
for the international community to take direct action against the Beijing
regime.
“If
you do not deal with the Chinese Communist Party directly, the [practice] of
forced organ harvesting in China won’t stop,” said Lin.
Epoch
Times Photo
A
man jogs past Falun Gong practitioners using a mock organ harvesting display as
part of their protest against China’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners,
on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Friday May 2, 2008. The protesters claim that
China illegally harvests organs from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. (Tom
Hanson/The Canadian Press)
Matas
said countries around the world should enact laws to prohibit their citizens
from going to China for transplants, since the CCP runs the Chinese legal
system and its own laws cannot be expected to prosecute forced organ harvesting
crimes.
“Right
now, for many countries, if a person kills someone in their own country for
their organs, the person will have committed a crime. But if the person goes to
China for organs harvested from a prisoner of conscience, the person has
committed no crime in their own country, and whatever crime they may have
committed in China will not be prosecuted,” he said.
Matas
also suggested using Magnitsky legislation, with which a country can publicly
name a person for being complicit in human rights violations, ban the
individual from entry, and freeze their assets in that country. Several
countries have their own version of a Magnitsky law, including Canada and the
United States.
“It
has not been used for those identified as complicit in forced organ harvesting
in China,” Matas said. “Authorities of various countries which have this
legislation have been asked to add perpetrators of forced organ harvesting in
China to their Magnitsky Act list.”
Kilgour
urged the conference participants to push their governments to boycott the 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics as well as businesses that could be using products made
by forced labour from China’s Xinjiang region.
“Any
deal with China on any matter must include an insistence that this barbaric
practice stop immediately, coupled with a mechanism whereby such stoppage is
verifiable,” Kilgour said.
“Responsible
governments and businesses worldwide, including Canada and, I hope, all of your
countries, to join the U.S. and Australia in boycotting anyone doing business
in Xinjiang, for slavery in its internment camps is poisoning the supply chains
of numerous well-known companies from democratic nations,” he said.
Canada’s
Subcommittee on International Human Rights estimates that roughly 2 million
Uyghurs and Turkic Muslims are held in concentration camps in Xinjiang, making
it the largest mass detention since the Holocaust.
Actions in Canada
On
Feb. 22, 2021, Canadian MPs voted unanimously in favour of a Conservative
motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims an
act of genocide.
Sen.
Marilou McPhedran said at the conference that Canada has introduced a bill in
the Senate that would amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act in relation to trafficking in human organs.
“The
new offence created in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act would be to
make it very clear that any evidence of trafficking in human organs or humans
would be an automatic refusal for any entry to Canada,” McPhedran said.
MP
Sameer Zuberi said he had heard from a Uyghur survivor of Xinjiang’s
concentration camps about how he was subjected to a physical exam.
“This
Uyghur individual, this individual who had committed no crime, was apprehended
without any charge, didn’t know why he was there, but this was the exam that he
was subject to. He thought that he would be dissected there on the table,”
Zuberi said.
He
also noted that there have been media reports of students, who are of Uyghur or
other minority origins, being called to the Chinese Embassy and consulates in
Canada to give blood samples.
“Why?
It’s a good question. But we know that blood samples, when they’re given … pave
the way to allow for organs to be harvested more easily,” he said.
In
December 2020, U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation to sanction forced organ
harvesting. It was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Tom Cotton and in the House
by Reps. Chris Smith and Tom Suozzi.
