Global bazaar in body parts

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/20/6 | Debra J. Saunders

[SmithL]

IS CHINA harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners -- who are killed in the process? David Kilgour, a former Canadian member of Parliament, and Canadian human rights attorney David Matas admit that they cannot prove or disprove allegations that China has killed thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in order to harvest their organs, but they fear and believe it is happening. So they wrote in a report (investigation.redirectme.net) released this month for the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China.

China denies the allegations. An embassy spokesman reminded me that U.S. officials toured a site in Shenyang allegedly used for these operations, but a U.S. State Department official said they found "no evidence that the site is being used for any function other than as a normal public hospital." The official U.S. position on the controversy is that the Bush administration is "concerned" about Chinese persecution of Falun Gong, as well as allegations of organ harvesting.

On the other hand, last year a Chinese health official admitted that the organs of executed prisoners were being sold to foreigners. A new Chinese law now prohibits taking organs without written permission -- even as China has launched a new fleet of execution vans that are turning lethal injection into a movable feat.

There is no question that China is persecuting Falun Gong members. In 2004, the U.S. State Department reported that, "tens of thousands of practitioners remained incarcerated in prisons, extrajudicial re-education-through-labor camps and psychiatric facilities. Several hundred Falun Gong adherents reportedly have died in detention due to torture, abuse and neglect since the crackdown on the Falun Gong began in 1999."

Falun Gong is a meditative practice -- sometimes dubbed "Chinese yoga"

[Quark606]

"fleet of execution vans"
Isn't that one of the methods that they used during the Holocaust?

I don't that doubt that this is happening.

[gaijin]

but a U.S. State Department official said they found "no evidence

Oh, great. They have the tenacious bloodhounds from the STATE DEPARTMENT on the case...

[Thombo2]

Very disturbing.I've read several articles about this.Like a horror movie,but it's happening.Where's the outrage from the left?

[polymuser]

Well, we'd better get embryonic stem cell research blessed and federally funded, so we can grow headless human clones for body parts and compete with the Chinese. We're losing out on a very lucrative market.