The regime has continued to direct a vast network organ-harvesting from prisoners of conscience — primarily Falun Gong –– since 2001, but also from Tibetans, Christians and Muslim Uyghurs. As China’s Communist Party marks 70 years in power as of Oct. 1, a recent Nanos opinion survey indicated that nine in 10 Canadians hold a…
UNIVERSAL VALUES AND ENGAGEMENT WITH BEIJING West Lawn, Capitol Hill, Washington Notes for Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. For International Coalition to end Transplant Abuse in China July 18, 2019 ___________________________________________________ Twenty years ago, the party-state in Beijing launched a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong. People everywhere should condemn the ongoing torture, killing, organ pillaging,…
ENGAGING CHINA WITH CANADIAN VALUES Notes for Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. of International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), Canadian International Council Forum Alt Hotel, Ottawa May 8, 2019, 7 pm ____________________________________________________________ Wei Jingsheng of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition notes that “The constitution of the Chinese Communist Party very clearly states: ‘the…
The International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC) calls on all governments, at the upcoming session of the Human Rights Council, February 25 to March 22, 2019 to include in their statements under agenda item 4 – Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention – a component urging China to account for…
BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D The Platform of European Memory and Conscience International Conference Collège des Bernardins and Fondation Napoleon, Paris Communism as articulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century was not instituted in any country until after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent civil war during which an estimated 8-10…
BY DAVID MATAS Presentation to the European Society of Transplantation, Barecelona, Spain David Kilgour and I have been researching, writing, and speaking on the killing of Falun Gong for their organs now for ten years. Ethan Gutmann is a journalist who interviewed us on our work and then did his own. Since David Kilgour and…
BY ETHAN GUTMANN A briefing via Skype at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra. While I appreciate your invitation, listening to anyone on Skype can be tedious, so I’ll be brief. Three years ago, I gave testimony in Canberra on how the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience evolved from a handful of Uyghur political…
BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D. HARD TO BELIEVE AND HUMAN HARVEST These films have won numerous prizes and continue to be screened in many parts of the world. In Oslo, for example, I was told that there have been to date about 52,000 separate viewings of Human Harvest by Norwegians. Leon Lee of Vancouver devoted…
BY END ORGAN PILLAGING/PRESS RELEASE For investigative journalism and advocacy of a better China, Ethan Gutmann has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2004, Gutmann’s book Losing the New China exposed American corporate collusion in the construction of China’s controlled Internet, and contributed to Congress cross-examination of the legal representatives of Yahoo, Microsoft,…
BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D. 17-23 August, 2016 Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre hosting Congress In 2006, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China asked David Matas and me to investigate as volunteers seemingly bizarre but persistent claims of organ pillaging/trafficking from Falun Gong practitioners. We released two…
BY MATTHEW ROBERTSON, EPOCH TIMES HONG KONG—On the penultimate day of The Transplantation Society’s premier industry congress at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, a smaller conference with a slightly different focus was held by Epoch Times Hong Kong a short distance away. The Epoch Times Hong Kong event, which ran for slightly over…
BY DAFOH Despite international condemnation of forced organ harvesting, transplant congress in Hong Kong honors China’s transplant mastermind. Doctors call upon The Transplantation Society to first demand full disclosure and transparency on organ procurement violations before welcoming China’s transplant authorities. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a leading medical…
BY DAVID MATAS Presentation to the European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, 5 July, 2016, Brighton UK This conference raises the questions, “what is justice and why do we seek it?” The answers to these questions depend on context. In determining what constitutes justice, one size does not fit all. I approach these questions…
An unprecedented new report by a team of relentless investigators was published on June 22, 2016. The basis of the report is a meticulous examination of the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archive. It…
NOTES FOR REMARKS ON NEW UPDATE ON ‘BLOODY HARVEST’ AND ‘THE SLAUGHTER’ Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. European Parliament, Brussels 29 June, 2016 For at least 15 years across China, there has been regime-sanctioned pillaging and trafficking in the vital organs of prisoners of conscience—overwhelmingly from practitioners of Falun Gong, but also Tibetans, Uyghurs and house…
BY ETHAN GUTMANN, AUTHOR OF THE SLAUGHTER Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, and the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats 2:00 pm, June 23, 2016 in Room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building: “Organ Harvesting: An Examination of a Brutal Practice” ► WATCH WEBCAST…
At 2 p.m. June 22 at the National Press Club, Washington, DC Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour, investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann and Canadian human rights attorney David Matas will release a detailed and comprehensive report on China’s organ transplantation industry, dealing specifically with the use of prisoners of conscience as a profitable…
BY THE EPOCH TIMES A decade after evidence emerged of one of the gravest and most extraordinary human rights violations today, the United States House of Representatives has added its voice to the chorus of censure. H.Res 343, an item of legislation that expresses concern by the House of Representatives on “persistent and credible reports…
BY DAVID KILGOUR Falun Dafa Day on Parliament Hill David Kilgour 10 May 2016 Ottawa This is the year when all of us across the world working in coalition can succeed in ending the pillaging/trafficking in the organs of prisoners of conscience across China. The inhuman commerce, organized by the party-state in Beijing, has been…
BY DAVID KILGOUR Second Annual Anti-Corruption Symposium of Canadians for Accountability in partnership. University of Ottawa 7 May 2016 The respected international NGO Transparency International (TI), which confronts corruption worldwide, is correct that none anywhere should be above the law or abuse voter-entrusted power for private gain. Corruption poses a threat to democracies and the…