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With the second in charge of the Chinese communist regime, Premier Wen Jiabao, to arrive in Australia in early April for an expected uranium sales deal, the federal government has been called upon by to help investigate the allegations of a secret concentration camp in China's northeast.
Addressing a press conference and a peaceful protest outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney on Tuesday March 14 the President of the NSW Falun Dafa association, Mr John Della, called upon Australian government and international organisations to investigate the findings of the Chinese journalist who recently exposed the concentration camp in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang city and its killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs.
"The camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong adherents at any given time, and "nobody has yet to come out" of it alive. According to the source, it contains a crematorium, and an unusually large number of doctors work there—reflecting the camp's practice of killing prisoners for their organs, which are then sold for profit," said Mr Della.
"Word of concentration camps for Falun Gong practitioners has circulated for several years."
Mr Della also told the press conference that a news report by Agence France Presse in October of 2000 stated two concentration camps were built for Falun Gong detainees in northwest and northeast of China and were capable of each holding up to 50,000 persons.
Ms Jennifer Zheng, writer and labour camp survivor, told the press conference that when she was detained in a Beijing camp in 2000 and 2002 that; "the police there openly told us that "the only purpose for you to be sent here is to get you "transformed" or "reform" to give up your practice". The police threatened us repeatedly "if you refuse to give up, we will send you to a huge concentration camp, in a far area in north, north-west China and you will never ever have a chance to come back again."
Ms Zheng said her and other Falun Gong practitioners were repeatedly threatened this way. "When I heard the news, the appalling news of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp I was not at all surprised because, years ago I was myself threatened by the police about being sent to a concentration camp like this and I feel sad.
"Many people arguing about whether this kind of situation was true, instead of standing up immediately to call for an independent investigation into such shocking allegations," she stated.
"The first thing we should do upon learning this kind of news is to ask about or to call for independent investigations instead of sitting there doubting whether it is true or not."
A number of speakers addressed the press conference and the estimated two hundred people peacefully protesting. Among the speakers was Professor Li Bao Qing formerly from the Chinese Academy of Science who himself along with his wife, Associate Professor Liu Jinghang, who had both experienced torture in labour camps in China before fleeing to Australia in 2003.
Also speaking was Yuan Hong, who arrived in came to Australia in 1997, before then he was a doctor in Shenyang city at the number one hospital that was affiliated to the Chinese Medicine University. He told the press details of the trade in organs from executed prisoners. (To read Mr Yuan's experiences see Overseas Chinese Can Replace Kidneys in China for $12,300 )
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