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>Going Public About Communist Concentration Camps
>Two sources appear in public for the first time to detail organ-harvesting in China
>Gary Feuerberg
>Epoch Times Washington, D.C. Staff
>Apr 21, 2006
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>Informants Annie and Peter in Washington DC on April 20. Their speeches were their first public testimony about large-scale organ harvesting atrocities in China. (The Epoch Times)
>WASHINGTON ? Two sources who exposed concentration camps in China told their stories in public for the first time on Thursday afternoon.
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>The two Chinese sources, who go by their aliases Annie and Peter, spoke at a rally at McPherson Square the same day Chinese leader Hu Jintao met with U.S. President George W. Bush, explaining why they felt the need to speak out about the existence of organ harvesting operations in labor camps in China.
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>"If I don't stand up, perhaps the other witnesses will not dare to stand up," said Annie, referring to other informants of the camps that have yet to go public with their information.
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>Peter has received many threatening or strange phone calls since his private interview about the organ harvesting, but expressed his determination in going public with his information despite fears of attack from the Chinese regime.
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>"As I stand here today and making it public, I am paying a great price, maybe even my life, but I believe it is not for nothing," he said. "I can help other people who know about such incidents to tell the truth to the public? of what is really happening in [Chinese] society."
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>The 500-strong crowd at the rally chanted in support of the two sources, shouting, "Annie and Peter are heroes!"
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>Corroborating Accounts
>The two gave details about organ harvesting in China, particularly in Sujiatun in northeastern China, where 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were at one time detained. They expressed the importance of coming out publicly in order to provide more credence to their accounts.
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>"Be it the U.S. government or the Chinese government, they have denied the existence of this incident, so it was needed for me to speak out about this," said Annie.
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>The U.S. State Department has said that they made two visits to the hospital in Sujiatun and found no evidence of organ harvesting, but in its April 14 news release, noted that "we remain concerned over China's repression of Falun Gong practitioners. We are also concerned by reports of organ harvesting."
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>The organ harvesting atrocities were first revealed when Peter, then given the alias "Mr. R.," said on March 9 that Falun Gong practitioners were being killed on a large scale for their organs, which would then be sold for profit.
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>Annie, whose ex-husband was a cornea specialist at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital, the hospital connected to the Sujiatun camp, gave an interview with The Epoch Times on March 17. She said that her husband had done operations on live Falun Gong practitioners and that the practitioners' bodies were thrown into incinerators after the operations, sometimes while they were still alive.
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>Peter said that the atrocities at Sujiatun were just "the tip of the iceberg."
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>On March 31, The Epoch Times published a report based on information from a military doctor who stated that there were 36 similar camps all over China, and the largest one, codenamed 672-S, holds over 120,000 people.
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>"I hope that they go and investigate this," said Annie. "If this isn't happening in China, then open up the doors to your country and let everyone participate, look, and investigate."
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>Annie also mentioned that she would be willing to testify in Congress.
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>http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-21/40652.html
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>Leading British Physician Condemns Organ Harvesting in China
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>By Martin Croucher
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>Epoch Times London staff
>May 08, 2006
>China's use of organs harvested from executed prisoners is "unethical" and "distasteful" and should be universally condemned by the international medical establishment, a leading physician said last week.
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>Professor Stephen Wigmore, chair of the ethics committee of the British Transplantation Society, called for support from other related health organisations and the UN to "send a powerful message to China that the rest of the world does not endorse their practice."
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>The statement follows increasing concerns that prisoners are executed and their organs extracted without prior consent. Dr Wigmore said that any written consent ostensibly from the executed prisoner should be treated with suspicion:
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>"The Chinese government claims that condemned prisons have given their consent to organ donation. We would consider this consent invalid because the power grading is so enormous between the state and a prisoner condemned to death," he told news channel NTDTV in an interview.
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>"It's impossible to accept that this is a voluntary, freely given consent."
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>Dr. Wigmore also stated that he had nagging doubts over whether the supply of fresh organs from recently executed prisoners was staged in response to demand from paying customers. He believed that the so-called 'efficiency' of the system advertised by Chinese donor websites was only made possible by the cooperation of the donor services with the judicial and prison systems.
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>Moral Costs of Organs from Prisoners without Consent Outweigh Benefits
>Dr. Wigmore stated that he understood that people may go to China for an organ out of desperation, but hinted that the moral costs may outweigh the apparent benefits:
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>"I think if people were to boycott the Chinese transplantation services, the desire for organs will diminish because I think the financial rewards that some of these hospitals get is one of the principal reasons for they are active as they are," he explained.
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>As well as calling for a consensus statement from medical ethics committees to oppose the practice, he also stated that medical journals could also apply pressure by refusing to publish articles on transplantation by Chinese authors until certain moral standards were met.
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>Moreover he also stated that there was a real need for an international agency such as the UN or the World Health Organisation to conduct "a full frank enquiry" into the allegations.
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>"That's the only way that we will have global acceptance that there is problem in china, and only then, the Chinese government will be forced to change," Dr. Wigmore opined.
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>Concluding with his personal reaction to the claims of organ harvesting, Dr. Wigmore said that he felt "disgusted" and stated that the practice was an affront to the idea of a gift that is freely given.
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>"The story about prisoners been executed and dragged into a van and have their organs removed is just so far removed from our understanding of organ donation. It is complete shocking and distasteful," he added.
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