More than a month has gone by since Sujiatun death camp was first exposed. Informants have revealed that the communist regime had already transferred all Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained in Sujiatun death camp and destroyed all evidence before making a public denial of its existence three weeks later.
However many practitioners are still illegally detained in other death camps throughout China and a flurry of large scale live organ harvesting and transplants has increased. Medical staff have openly said that transplant organs come from healthy people aged between 20 to 30 years and did not deny that these organs come from Falun Gong practitioners. They also said that after May 1, supplies would be used up, implying that the communist regime is rapidly carrying out mass extermination.
After the evidence in Sujiatun was destroyed, I read a report on Sujiatun by AFP and AP. The entire report basically read like a manuscript from China News Agency. A government official from the Sujiatun district, Zheng Bin and a senior official from the Liaoning Thrombosis Treatment Centre of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Zhang Xu were amongst those interviewed. Both Zheng and Zhang made indistinct responses. Other than fictitious official jargon, they did not provide any useful information to help their denial. What surprised me was Zhang Xu threatened that the thrombosis centre might consider suing The Epoch Times .
To date, there are few precedents in lawsuits brought against the Chinese communist officials by Falun Gong practitioners where the accused turns around to sue the plaintiff. Now, the thrombosis centre has threatened to sue The Epoch Times, I think the chances of implementing this lawsuit is one in ten thousand. The Chinese communist regime wouldn't dare allow international enforcement bodies and lawyers from the Western society to conduct an independent investigation in China. The shocking atrocities uncovered would not just be at Sujiatun as it is simply the tip of the iceberg. If this plea goes to international law courts then it would create a good opportunity for Falun Gong to expose the real nature of this grisly genocide. It will be interesting to see what happens.
What also surprised me was the AFP and AP reports did not mention the evidence raised by Falun Gong. For example on the official website of the China International Transplantation Network Assistance Center (CITNAC), it was advertised that the wait for a suitable kidney is usually around one week, one month at most. The harvested kidney can only be preserved for at most 24 to 48 hours or else it will not be functioning after the operation. This implies that the CITNAC has abundant supplies of live kidneys. When a matching recipient is found, the kidney could immediately be harvested from a live person and, and his corpse cremated.
The CITNAC did not deny that their organs came from live persons but the website advertised that "our organs do not come from brain dead patients because the quality of such organs might not be ideal". The center claimed that due to support given by the government. If these organs come from dead convicts according to claims by the Chinese communist regime , then how could the center guarantee that a matching organ can be found within a week when convicts are only executed at certain times of the year?
The communist regime had not provided answers to these questions. What astonishes me is AFP and AP did not question any of these basic facts in their articles. In other words these reporters actually did not demonstrate professional ethics, they did not investigate these websites before taking statements from the communist regime; after the interview they also neglected to report on the facts given by Falun Gong. In this instance, they failed to observe a balance in reporting, which is the norm.
This reminds me of a saying: China is a reporter's heaven, yet at the same time it can be a reporter's hell.
By reporter's heaven, it does not mean that reporters can lie down and go to sleep. But it is true that whenever a major event happens, the communist regime would request that a manuscript from China News Agency be used thus making the journalist's job unchallenging. On the contrary, this is an opportunity for reporters with a conscience to make a name for themselves. For example Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his article on the futile efforts of Chen Zixiu's daughter to obtain a death certificate from the police. Chen Zixiu was a Falun Gong practitioner tortured to death by the communist regime.
The managing editor for the Journal , Paul E. Steiger commented that Johnson's reports were "a tremendous example of courage and determination to get a story out in the face of strong police pressures against the reporting, combined with very sensitive and powerful writing."
In comparison, China is also a hell where reporters betray their conscience. They censor their own reports to please the communist regime and their reports inevitably quote many lies from the regime. Consequently, not only do they tarnish their own reputations once the truth is revealed but unknowingly they have become accomplices to the crimes committed by the evil regime.
It seems that the AP reporters have been going through a stroke a bad luck. In 2005 they were used by the communist regime and reported on the staged "Tiananmen square self-immolation incident" including interviews with the parties involved. This so called self-immolation incident had already been thoroughly refuted by Falun Gong using an analysis of the Chinese regime's video footage of the incident. It has become a powerful tool used in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. The many inconsistencies in the "self-immolation" lies propagated by the communist regime led to the NGO "International Educational Development" read the following statement to the UN Commission on Human Rights:
"We have obtained a video analysis of the self-immolation incident that indicates that the entire event was directed by the government."—much to the chagrin of Chinese officials present.
The "Washington Post" and other mainstream media have also carried out investigations and reported on the fabricated "self-immolation" incident. However AP seemed to have no knowledge of the appalling fictitious nature of this incident and continued to quote the lies of the communist regime, giving wide coverage and even interviewing communist spies impersonating as people "party to the self-immolation."
Their indifference to the tricks of the communist regime will be unsettling for their reporters' consciences, and their future peace of mind when the truth is inevitably revealed, and the mass scale of the persecution exposed.
Undoubtedly, the Chinese News Agency will go down with the communist regime. However the reputation of AP will also be stained when more of the truth is revealed. This will be an unbearable loss for a media that relies on public confidence.
Of course, those who act as spokespersons for the Chinese regime and tell lies without conscience should be censured even more so than others. These people calmly deny crimes against humanity with no sense of guilt. Such deeds just invoke a saying by Mencius:
"Those who cannot be compunctious are not human."
There is nothing we can say to these people, but why should reporters report the words of such inhuman beings?
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