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Letter: Falun Gong muddles facts

Having read a recent article ("Group established to probe into abuse of Falun Gong," Dec. 20, page 2) in your newspaper, I feel that William Lai (賴清德) has missed some of the facts regarding the organ harvesting allegations made by the Falun Gong.

While China's human rights abuses must not be ignored, the actions of the Falun Gong are detracting from their own cause and from an objective examination of China's rights violations.

The Falun Gong unfortunately muddle the rational discussion of China's problems and the causes behind them.

For the sake of unbiased examination, I would like to bring to your attention some contradictions in the Falun Gong's recent media activity.

The US State Department investigated the allegation that a concentration camp exists in Sujiatun and said it was not credible.

A US Congressional briefing on the treatment of the Falun Gong in China has also questioned the truth of Falun Gong genocide claims and the credibility of the report released by David Kilgour and David Matas.

Long time Chinese dissident Harry Wu (吳宏達) investigated the allegations and has said that the Falun Gong witness was unreliable.

The hospital accused of genocide is partly owned by the Malaysian firm, Country Heights Health Sanctuary.

It is subject to supervision by Chinese authorities and Malaysian officials visited the facilities last year.

The facility has also been open to the public for years.

A photograph submitted by Kilgour has not proven any of the allegations.

Specifically, a photo of Wang Bin in the report's appendix has been rejected by a pathologist.

The Falun Gong have themselves said that an autopsy was performed as part of Wang's murder investigation held by local authorities.

Another photo widely being misused by the Falun Gong depicts Liu Yufeng. It does not prove anything.

In reality these autopsy photos indicate that the Chinese government has not been complicit in killing Falun Gong members and have even investigated the deaths of citizens in police custody.

Charles Liu
Seattle
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