Since eyewitness and media reports surfaced that members of the Falun Gong movement were being killed for their organs at the Sujiatun organ-harvesting death camp in China's Liaoning Province, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sure felt the pressure. After two weeks of silence, its rhetoric -- a set of loose regulations on organ harvesting and denials of the existence of a Falun Gong death camp -- is less than convincing.
According to two witnesses, the victims are cremated alive immediately after the organs have been harvested, and out of the initial 6,000 Falun Gong members detained at the Sujiatun death camp, only 2,000 remain.
It is clear to me that the CCP has been working overtime to hide the evidence of the death camp and is ready to give a show-tour of the facilities.
A few questions spring to mind: What will happen to those 2000 Falun Gong members -- are they still alive? It is an open secret that Beijing wants to eliminate the Falun Gong movement before the 2008 Olympics.
I wonder how many more death camps there will be to achieve this goal. Who will be next? I hope our Canadian Members of Parliament will have the guts to officially condemn these crimes against humanity and launch a full-scale investigation.
This genocide must be stopped.
Marie Beaulieu Balmoral
Victoria, British Columbia,Canada
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