Seeking Clarity on the Crisis in China

Bizarre political events in China have an underlying explanation, say Washington D.C. forum participants—in an Epoch Times-sponsored event held at the U.S. Capitol.
Seeking Clarity on the Crisis in China
Honorable David Kilgour is a former member of the Canadian parliament, where he served as Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific (2002-2003). He is the author (with David Matas) of 'Bloody Harvest: the killing of Falun Gong for their organs.' (Gary Feuerberg/The Epoch Times)
7/20/2012
Updated:
9/22/2015
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Yiyang Xia is Senior Director of Policy & Research with the Washington D.C.-based Human Rights Law Foundation

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Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times China editor

Once one understands the dynamic of this faction and its raison d'être, recent events appear less arbitrary and can be explained. Chongqing chief of police Wang Lijun fled to the American Consulate with information about a coup that Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang planned to spring after Xi Jinping became head of the CCP.

Robertson said the coup attempt was independently confirmed by Bill Gertz, a U.S. national reporter and by Epoch Times sources.

The media reports “infighting” in China. Robertson said that’s wrong and misleading. “This is not parliamentary maneuvering. It is deadly serious. Before this is over we may well see executions,” Robertson said.

“The removal of Bo is a crippling blow to the faction that Jiang formed to persecute Falun Gong,” Robertson observed. Without Bo to replace Zhou on the Standing Committee and as head of the PLAC, the power base that Jiang built to protect himself and his faction collapses.

Organ Harvesting

The crime for which this faction most wants to avoid responsibility is the forced, live organ harvesting going on in China. Wang Lijun, Bo Xilai, and Zhou Yongkang were all heavily involved in organ harvesting operations.

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Damon Noto, MD, spokesperson for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH).

Dr. Damon Noto, spokesperson for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, said that during the period from 2001 to 2008, the number of transplants “exploded.” His group of concerned physicians was perplexed where the organs came from. He cited an example from a well-known surgeon in Israel, Dr. Jacob Lavee, whose patient was able to schedule a heart transplant in two weeks and received the organ at the appointed time. Former Vice President Dick Cheney had to wait 20 months, which was a little longer than the average of 6 months to a year, according to media reports.

“When Dr. Lavee investigated organ transplantation in China, he found to his horror that most of the transplanted organs are prisoners sentenced to death or prisoners of conscience, ”whose death was timed for the convenience of the waiting recipient who could afford the cost of buying an organ,” says Dr. Levee in a chapter of a newly published book, State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China Dr. Noto held up a copy of this book in his hand. Dr. Lavee and colleagues were instrumental in getting a law passed in Israel that stopped the sending of Israeli patients for organ transplantation to China.”

Finally, in 2005, the regime admitted that most of the organs, as much as 95 percent, came from executed prisoners—“The only country in the world that allows the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners,” Noto said.

Still, the numbers didn’t add up, he said. In the United States, one needs 15 to 20 donors to find a match. For China to annually perform 10,000 transplants with organs drawn from random donors, as in the United States, would require 150,000 donors, he said.

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Honorable David Kilgour