(Clearwisdom.net) Central News Agency reported on October 11, 2006, that former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific, Mr. David Kilgour, discussed today in Kaohsiung the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. He said that China has a "live organ bank," that provides organs for transplants for profit at a moment's notice. He hoped that governments of all countries will take seriously such inhumane behavior, and take further action to safeguard human rights.
Mr. Kilgour is currently doing an investigation and collecting evidence regarding the CCP harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. This afternoon, he held a press conference in Kaohsiung, describing the CCP's behavior as inhuman, and calling on governments of all countries to take this matter seriously, and to take further action. He also questioned if the country is qualified to hold the 2008 Olympic Games.
Mr. Kilgour pointed out that since July 1999, when the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong, arresting practitioners, many practitioners went missing, or were sent to forced labor camps and lost contact with their families. Through tracing, investigating and collecting evidence, eighteen reasons have been compiled that conclude that the CCP has been harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners as a "live organ bank," so that patients from around the world who urgently need organ transplants can get live organs within very short periods of time.
Mr. Kilgour said that as of 2005, China had provided nearly 60,000 organ transplants each year, a three times increase over that in the past five years. The procurement of these organs was not from voluntary donations, but from the organ bank.
The recordings and films provided by the Chinese people prove that China indeed has a "live organ bank." A family member of a doctor who assisted with live organ harvesting also verified that the CCP regards forced labor camps where Falun Gong (practitioners) have been detained as "live organ banks." It also set up a price list for the sale of human organs, including 62,000 US dollars for kidney transplants, 130,000 US dollars for liver transplants and 170,000 US dollars for lung transplants.
Mr. Kilgour pointed out that Falun Gong is simply a cultivation movement, people in over 80 countries practice it, but only the CCP is persecuting and arresting practitioners.
He said that recently several people in Taiwan who had been to China for organ transplants were interviewed, and they verified that they had paid large sums of money for transplantation, and that one part of the money was a commission. When the interviewees learned that their [new] organs were harvested from living people, not executed prisoners or donors, they felt that it was inconceivable.
According to statistics, each year, approximately 450 Taiwanese people go to China for liver or kidney transplants. The livability for liver transplant patients is about 60%, with average survival time being thirteen months.
Mr. Kilgour called on governments to take seriously the inhumane nature of live organ harvesting, and said that he hoped governments of all countries will take action.
