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Conclusion
For organs trafficked in China or any other jurisdiction, David Matas and I would encourage you to consider some or all of the twenty recommendations in our book Bloody Harvest, including:
Urging the party-state in China to:
- cease the repression of Falun Gong practitioners;
- cease organ-pillaging from all prisoners;
- remove its military from the organ transplant business;
- establish and regulate a legitimate organ donor system (Every organ transplant donor should consent to the donation in writing. These consents should be available for inspection by international human rights officials.);
- open all detention centres, including forced labour camps, for international investigation;
- free Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer who has become “the conscience of China,” and permit him to reunite with his family.
Implement the following measures until the party-state in China ceases organ pillaging from prisoners:
- Canadian medical professionals should actively discourage their patients from going to China for transplant surgery;
- Canadian governments should not issue visas to Chinese MDs seeking training in organ or body tissue transplantation;
- Canadian MDs should not travel to China to give training in transplant surgery;
- Contributions submitted to Canadian medicals journals about the Chinese experience should be rejected;
- Canadian pharmaceutical companies should be barred from exporting to China any drugs used solely in transplant surgery;
- Canada’s Parliament should enact extra-territorial legislation, penalizing participation in organ transplants without consent; and
- The Canadian government should bar entry to any person known to be participating in organ trafficking without informed consent.
Thank you.
David Kilgour is a Fellow of the Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy and a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD).
During his time in the Canadian Parliament David Kilgour was Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committees of the Whole House, Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa, and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific. First elected in 1979, he was re-elected seven times, most recently in 2004, for the south-eastern part of Edmonton. He continues to be active in issues of human rights and international concern.
He has published with David Matas, Bloody Harvest-The Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs. He and Mr. Matas were recently awarded the 2009 Human Rights Prize of the International Society for Human Rights In Switzerland for their work in raising awareness of state-sponsored organ pillaging in China. They have also been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. For further information, see <www.david-kilgour.com>.
