4/4/2006 8:55:55 AM
Please remember the name: Sujiatun. It will one day be as infamous as Auschwitz and Dachau.
The National Traditional Chinese Medicine Thrombus Treatment Center in Shenyang City. According to a former nurse who worked there, the Sujiatun death camp is in an underground complex connected to this hospital.
The furnace unit is on the southwest side of the hospital. There are two doors leading to the underground complex of the Sujiatun death camp. According to the witnesses, the remains of Falun Gong practitioners are incinerated here after their organs are extracted.
On March 8, 2006, a Chinese journalist on the run from the Chinese communist regime disclosed to Falun Gong practitioners in the United States some appalling news: a secret death camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in China.
According to this journalist, over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been taken to Sujiatun. "I believe that once they are in they 100%
cannot come back out," the journalist said. He also disclosed that
there are incineration chambers and a large number of doctors there.
"Why are there incineration chambers there? Why are there so many
doctors inside? Certainly not for the benevolent treatment of
prisoners. Something you simply cannot imagine..."
"The
prisoners, the Communist Party definitely will not let them just waste
food there. Why are they there then? ... They will all be murdered, and
all their organs will be harvested and distributed to hospitals. The
sale of human organs is a vastly profitable trade in China."
Falun
Gong practitioners are not the only victims of such crimes. One week
after the journalist's disclosure, a former nurse whose ex-husband had
taken part in harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners also
stepped forward to testify:
"I used to work at the Liaoning
Thrombus Treatment Center, which was next to the concentration camp. My
ex-husband had taken part in removing corneas from Falun Gong
practitioners. This brought disaster to my family."
"In early
2001, my husband was assigned by the hospital to secretly remove
corneas from Falun Gong practitioners. He hid this from me at the
beginning, but slowly I sensed he was in great agony, had nightmares
often, and was always stressed. After my repeated inquiries, he told me
the truth in 2003."
"He knew they were Falun Gong practitioners.
Every doctor who took part knew. They were told that eliminating Falun
Gong was not a crime, but helping the Communist Party to do
'cleansing.' Those who were taken in on the operating tables were
anesthetized. Elderly people or children were mostly used for
harvesting corneas."
"At the time when my ex-husband told me
about this, he could no longer bear the torment of doing such evil
things, and decided to leave China to escape the horror. He said to me:
you cannot possibly know my despair, because those Falun Gong
practitioners were still alive. It was different from removing organs
from dead people - they were alive."
"Because of this, I
divorced him. I said to him: you are done with your career; you will
not be able to hold a scalpel in the future."
"I know there are
still Falun Gong practitioners in that hospital," this nurse said in
the end. "I hope this crime can be exposed to the international society
as quickly as possible, so their lives can be saved. I also hope,
through my disclosure, to atone my relative's crime."
Mr. Zuo
Zhigang, age 33, was arrested on May 30, 2001, by the Shijiazhuang City
police. He was beaten to death that night at the Qiaoxi District Police
Station. His corpse was covered with scars, and there were two large
square-shaped holes on the back of his torso, consistent with kidney
harvesting.
Mr. Ren Pengwu, age 33, was arrested by the police
in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province on February 16, 2001. Five days
later, he was murdered and all his organs, from his pharynx and larynx
to his penis, were removed. The authorities hastily cremated his
remains that same day without his family's knowledge or consent.
On
May 14, 2004, two policemen abducted Ms. Wang Yunjie while she was
working in a shopping center and later sent her to the infamous
Masanjia forced labor camp. To break her will and force her to renounce
Falun Gong, the police tortured her every day for the next six months
with beatings, hanging her in the air, depriving her of sleep, solitary
confinement, forcing her to stand or squat for days at a time, etc. She
was also forced to do hard labor for extended hours. In December 2002,
after depriving her of sleep for many days, the police stripped her
clothes and shocked her breasts with two electric batons for half and
hour. They then tied her up like a ball by forcibly bending her upper
body down to her legs and handcuffing her arms behind her back. While
in that position, they hung her up by her wrists for seven hours. The
protracted torture severely damaged her body, the electric shocks
disfigured her breasts, and her left breast became infected and
festered. Even then, the labor camp continued to torture her for
another six months. Only when she was on the verge of death did the
labor camp order her family to pay 2000 Yuan and take her home.
Ms.
Wang Xia was forcibly separated from her 14-month-old baby in early
2002 and sentenced to seven years in jail. To protest, she went on a
hunger strike. The police retaliated by torturous force feeding,
leaving the feeding tube in her esophagus for weeks at a time. The
police also pressed needles into her nails, burned her fingers, forced
a broom handle into her vagina, and injected her with harmful drugs. In
June 2004, she was tortured to just skin and bones, weighing only 45
lbs. The police sent Ms. Wang home when she was in critical condition
so as to avoid responsibility for her dying in custody. Ms. Wang
recovered from critical condition, but lost her memory. In spite of her
condition, the police took her back in custody on December 23, 2005.
Mr.
Wang Bin was arrested and detained at the Dongfeng Xinchun Labor Camp.
On the night of September 27, 2000, five guards and prisoners beat him
so severely that they broke his neck, injured his tonsils, crushed his
lymph nodes, and fractured several bones. He was taken to the Daqing
People's Hospital, but died in the hospital on October 4, 2000. Two
doctors in the hospital removed his heart and brain. The photo shows
that his body had been operated on.
The victims are not even
limited to Chinese. It is an open secret that China has become the
world capital of organ transplantation, and ships human organs to
nearby countries such as Thailand. Tens of thousands from different
parts of the world have received organ transplants in China and
Thailand, being assured that the organs have been legally obtained. How
will they and their surgeons feel when they learn about the barbaric
organ harvesting, even if the organs harvested from Falun Gong
practitioners turn out to account for a portion of all human organs
used in transplant operations? Is there a way for them to remove the
doubt? Will they want to find out? Or will they bear that doubt and
forever avoid mentioning "transplanted in China"?
Another doctor
recently stated that extracting organs from living prisoners is common
across China. How many more camps like Sujiatun exist?
It was
precisely because we abhor such appalling crimes that humanity vowed
"Never again!" after the shock of the Holocaust. Yet, as this vow is
still ringing in the ears of Holocaust survivors, we are in for another
shock - or are we? How do we explain to ourselves and our children that
we have watched the systematic eradication of Falun Gong for more than
six years and allowed it to escalate to the emergence of human organ
harvesting factories like Sujiatun?
It is not due to a lack of
information. Ever since July 1999, Falun Gong practitioners in China
have been taking great risks to collect and send abroad, on a daily
basis, detailed information on the extensive and severe human rights
violations committed by the Chinese communist regime. Falun Gong
practitioners overseas have worked their hardest to disseminate this
information to governments, media, opinion leaders, the United Nations,
and the general public to appeal for their attention.
United Nation's Reports
It
is not because the information is unsubstantiated. In the past few
years, many Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights
Commission have cited in their annual reports numerous cases of torture
and killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese regime. Special
Rapporteur Asma Jahangir wrote in her 2003 report: "The cruelty and
brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description." On
October 15, 2004, seven Special Rapporteurs sent a joint letter to
China to express their concern about the persecution of Falun Gong.
These Special Rapporteurs are the most-respected authorities on human
rights. Their findings and opinions on the Chinese regime's persecution
of Falun Gong have been reprinted to thousands upon thousands of copies
and submitted to world governments and media.
History,
unfortunately, repeats itself. Just as the Holocaust information
provided by Jewish groups was cast aside or downplayed because of the
"unsubstantiated nature of the information" and its "prejudiced
sources," information from Falun Gong practitioners has received the
same fate. History has also shown that all major atrocities occurred
when there was not enough media exposure, when perilous signals were
ignored because they were "incomplete" or "unsubstantiated" or from
"prejudiced sources" - when evildoers' deceits prevail, when the
silence allows the evildoers to carry on unnoticed and unhindered.
History, however, never duplicates itself exactly.
There
is no major military or ideological confrontation in the world now.
While the Allies did not have their focus on saving the Holocaust
victims, at least they were fighting the Nazis and determined to win
the war. We do not have that excuse now. On the contrary, we are
apparently determined to win the market in China.
Technology is
far more advanced now than it was in WWII, and we do not even need to
be at Auschwitz or Buchenwald to know what is going on there. If 6,000
people have been taken in to Sujiatun and none has come out, how hard
is it to see from surveillance satellites the suspicious traffic going
in and out to figure out that it is a death camp?
There are now
many international human rights laws that were not available before the
Nuremberg trials, and there are now many surveillance and protection
mechanisms implemented by the United Nations. How hard is it to demand
an international investigation into the serious claim of the death
camp's existence? What were those international human rights laws
established for?
We do not always ignore incomplete or
unsubstantiated information from China, however. When Dr. Jiang Yanyong
disclosed the Chinese regime's deadly lies about the SARS epidemic, the
retired doctor's letter to the media contained only what he had heard
from his colleagues. Did the world hesitate for a second because the
information was "incomplete" or "unsubstantiated"? Why didn't the
information's incompleteness prevent decisive action by the
international community? In fact, his letter was sent only to Chinese
media, but Western media got hold of it and publicized it. Why does the
world react so differently to the SARS news and the Sujiatun news, both
of life-and-death importance? Isn't it because Sujiatun is about other
people's lives?
If that is not enough to make us look at the
selfish side of our humanity, consider this: if Sujiatun happened
anywhere else other than China, whether in democratic countries or in
North Korea, Sudan, or Cuba, it would have caused major outcries. Only
the human greed for economic gains from China has kept the Sujiatun
death camp from being an international issue.
"The wrongs which
we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant,
and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being
ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated." Justice
Jackson knew the legacy that the Nuremberg trials would leave behind
when he drafted his opening speech. If he have lived to see the
post-Nuremberg wrongs, he might have been more introspective and lead a
trial on human conscience and how it could allow the wrongs to continue
to happen.