Researchers Unravel Horrors in China
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The story was hard to stomachgruesome, at the very least. What started as a rumor, however, would later unfold into a campaign of brutality and horror perpetrated by the Chinese regime.
International human rights lawyer David Matas was in his office when the story broke in March 2006. It flowed into his e-mail box along with the flood of human rights updates he reads daily.
It told the story of a woman under the pseudonym Annie, whose husband suffered nightmares, as he suffered for the terror he had inflicted on more than 2,000 people.
Annie said her husband, a surgeon, was employed by the Chinese regime to remove the corneas from living Falun Gong practitioners, slicing their eyes open with his scalpel while they were still alive. The rest of their organs were also stripped from their bodies, all to feed a market of illicit organ trade.
When he told his wife, Annie, what he was doing, she left him and escaped to the United States to reveal the ongoing crime.
Matas had reservations with regard to the news, although he said I knew enough about the Falun Gong to know they are being persecuted, so it occurred to me that it might be true, in a phone interview from a Geneva hotel.
The story faded into the back of his mind until two months later. Matas and was asked to investigate the allegations alongside former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour.
I knew this was a difficult issue to assess, Matas said. When I began I had no idea whether the allegation was true or false, but I knew from my experience in the human rights world that it would be difficult to find somebody e! lse to l ook at it.
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The story was hard to stomachgruesome, at the very least. What started as a rumor, however, would later unfold into a campaign of brutality and horror perpetrated by the Chinese regime.International human rights lawyer David Matas was in his office when the story broke in March 2006. It flowed into his e-mail box along with the flood of human rights updates he reads daily.
It told the story of a woman under the pseudonym Annie, whose husband suffered nightmares, as he suffered for the terror he had inflicted on more than 2,000 people.
Annie said her husband, a surgeon, was employed by the Chinese regime to remove the corneas from living Falun Gong practitioners, slicing their eyes open with his scalpel while they were still alive. The rest of their organs were also stripped from their bodies, all to feed a market of illicit organ trade.
When he told his wife, Annie, what he was doing, she left him and escaped to the United States to reveal the ongoing crime.
Matas had reservations with regard to the news, although he said I knew enough about the Falun Gong to know they are being persecuted, so it occurred to me that it might be true, in a phone interview from a Geneva hotel.
The story faded into the back of his mind until two months later. Matas and was asked to investigate the allegations alongside former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour.
I knew this was a difficult issue to assess, Matas said. When I began I had no idea whether the allegation was true or false, but I knew from my experience in the human rights world that it would be difficult to find somebody e! lse to l ook at it.
ETHAN GUTMANN, writer and investigative reporter, is an authority on Chinese regime censorship, the U.S. business scene in China, and China's surveillance of political dissidents. He spoke at the Capitol Building, April 26. (Gary Feuerberg/The Epoch Times) Gutmann would interview more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners, including 50 refugees from the CCPs prisons and labor camps, while researching the regimes persecution against the peaceful meditation group.
During a phone interview from the United Kingdom, Gutmann said, there was a distinct moment, when he realized the claims were true. He was interviewing an older woman who described tests done on Falun Gong practitioners in prisons and labor camps that included expensive blood tests and examinations for organ health.
They were given this exam and there was clearly no justification for the exam. It wasnt a real medical exam, it was only examining organs, Gutmann said.
He would hear the same tests described again and again. To make sure they werent just telling him what he wanted to hear, he only casually inquired about the tests. It was clear they werent briefing each other and it was clear they didnt realize the significance, he said.
In order to cover the costs of the examinations, Gutmann estimated the CCP would need to take the organs of one in every 40 people they examined just to break even. If they wanted profit, they would need to kill one in every 5 or 10.
Based on his findings, he believes the CCP may have killed 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. He said the estimation comes close to that found by Matas and Kilgour. Its surprising because were working with completely different methods. Im not using Chinese government numbers, Gutmann said.
He outlined his findings in a November 2008 article, Chinas Gruesome Organ Harv! est, pu blished in the Weekly Standard magazine, as well as in an article published on his East of Ethan blog, How many harvested?
Through further research, however, he uncovered the CCPs practice of killing religious believers for their organs was more widespread than had previously been believed.Next: Christians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs are also victims
During a phone interview from the United Kingdom, Gutmann said, there was a distinct moment, when he realized the claims were true. He was interviewing an older woman who described tests done on Falun Gong practitioners in prisons and labor camps that included expensive blood tests and examinations for organ health.
They were given this exam and there was clearly no justification for the exam. It wasnt a real medical exam, it was only examining organs, Gutmann said.
He would hear the same tests described again and again. To make sure they werent just telling him what he wanted to hear, he only casually inquired about the tests. It was clear they werent briefing each other and it was clear they didnt realize the significance, he said.
In order to cover the costs of the examinations, Gutmann estimated the CCP would need to take the organs of one in every 40 people they examined just to break even. If they wanted profit, they would need to kill one in every 5 or 10.
Based on his findings, he believes the CCP may have killed 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. He said the estimation comes close to that found by Matas and Kilgour. Its surprising because were working with completely different methods. Im not using Chinese government numbers, Gutmann said.
He outlined his findings in a November 2008 article, Chinas Gruesome Organ Harv! est, pu blished in the Weekly Standard magazine, as well as in an article published on his East of Ethan blog, How many harvested?
Through further research, however, he uncovered the CCPs practice of killing religious believers for their organs was more widespread than had previously been believed.Next: Christians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs are also victims
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