Four months after shocking the world by crying out a protest to Chinese president Hu Jintao, Dr. Wenyi Wang visited the Bay Area to attend the Global Alliance for Democracy and Peace annual meeting and to give a speech about the severe human rights abuses in China.
Dr. Wang became a household name when she made headlines in late April for protesting against the organ removing from living Falun Gong practitioners on the south lawn of the White House during Hu Jintao's visit to North America.
"The organ harvesting crime from living Falun Gong practitioners was what motivated me to make the cry out," explained Dr. Wang. "As a physician, I took an oath to protect lives and to save lives. The crime they are committing is unspeakable. It is a crime against humanity. Everybody with conscience and morality should stand up and say no to this atrocity."
Dr. Wang earned her medical degree in China.
The news about forced organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners first broke out in March this year, when the existence of secret concentration camps detaining a large number of Falun Gong practitioners throughout China was revealed to the world.
Charges that followed triggered condemnations and investigations from various organizations, with the most prominent one being a comprehensive report compiled by former Canadian MP David Kilgour and renowned human rights lawyer David Matas.
"Based on what we now know, we have come to the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true," concluded the report ( http://organharvestinvestigation.net ). "[The Falun Gong practitioners'] vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries."
Transcripts of numerous phone calls made to hospitals in China uncovered that organ transplant patients who go to China only need to wait for an average of one or two weeks to get organs. In the United States, the average waiting time is about five years.
An updated report is scheduled to be out in September.
"One person can make a big difference. The evilness can be widespread if people remain silent and do nothing. If every one of us can speak up, the evil will surely be eliminated," stated Wang. "This is a country with founding principles of freedom of belief and freedom of speech. As long as people understand that this persecution of peaceful people is wrong, they will be willing to do whatever they can to help stop this."
"As a medical professional, I am not against organ transplants. Transplantation, per se, is a noble thing meant to save lives. But when it involves innocent lives being killed, that is a crime against humanity."
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