‘An Unprecedented Evil Persecution’—Chapter Sixteen: Jiang Zemin The Ultimate Evil in the Destruction of Human Nature

Cover of the book "An Unprecedented Evil Persecution"

The Epoch Times is proud to republish “An Unprecedented Evil Persecution: a Genocide Against Goodness in Humankind” (eds. Dr. Torsten Trey and Theresa Chu. 2016. Clear Insight Publishing). The book helps with the understanding of forced organ harvesting in China by explaining the root cause behind this atrocity: the genocide committed by the Chinese regime against Falun Gong practitioners.

The CCP’s organ harvesting death camps

In the morning of December 9, 2013, legal representatives and medical experts from six countries, including Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, Executive Director of U.S. based Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) Dr. Torsten Trey, Spanish human rights lawyer Carlos Jimenez Iglesias, British kidney specialist Dr. Adnan Sharif, French transplant surgeon Dr. Francis Navarro, and myself, a human rights lawyer from Taiwan, went to Geneva to meet with a UN lawyer and a China specialist representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. We presented UN officials with discs of scanned DAFOH petitions calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, which garnered approximately 1.5 million signatures. The signatures were collected from 53 countries and regions in five continents in five months.⁽¹⁾ Among the 1.5 million, the largest number—about 600,000—were from Asia. Nearly 5,000 physicians from Taiwan signed the petition appealing to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights with the following requests:

1. Call upon China to immediately end forced organ harvesting of detained Falun Gong practitioners in China.
2. Initiate further investigations that lead to the prosecution of the perpetrators involved in this crime against humanity.
3. Call upon the Chinese government to immediately end the brutal persecution of Falun Gong, which is the root cause for forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.

We expounded on the issue of China’s organ harvesting program, sharing with them our investigations and professional analysis. We urged the UN to pay attention to the 1.5 million public appeals from all over the world. I also directly informed these officials that we have knowledge, from reliable sources, of the existence of death camps, or secret concentration camps where Falun Gong practitioners are detained and murdered through forced organ harvesting. Such death camps are in almost every city throughout China. I reminded the UN officials that it is their responsibility to investigate and locate these camps and stop the tragedy of this unprecedented human rights violation.

The officials did not question the source of the “death camp” allegations. They listened with somber attention, took notes, but did not respond. Faced with 1.5 million voices and the allegations of the existence of death camps, the officials’ silence was disappointing, but not surprising. The UN’s attitude in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations over the years had been taciturnity. Nonetheless, we have not given up our efforts to seek justice. In the West, it is said that, “To keep silence in the face of evil is to be cruel to good people.”