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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 lower body, were removed. The
authorities hastily cremated his remains that same day without
his family's knowledge or consent.
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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.
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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, inserted a
broom handle in her private parts, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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