Human Rights Movement in China
Posted by Mary Jane Villalovos on Jul 10, 2016
We were visited by Dr. Wen Chen. She received her Ph. D. in Biology from Caltech. She currently works for Caltech as an Associate Biologist. She also has been volunteering for NTD Television with community outreach and education since 2008.
She came to discuss with us a bit of Chinese culture and the human rights movement which has grown as a result of the problem of forced organ harvesting.
She introduced us to a practice called Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) which was practiced by about 17 million residents of China which made up about 15% of the population. Any type of religion or practice made the Communist party nervous since they did not approve of anything that promotes independent thinking. Although Falun Gong was not a religion but a practice of pure self-improvement it was a threat to the communist party.
In 1999 the Communist party began persecution of Falun Gong followers. Many were abducted, tortured and fired from jobs, expelled from school, and forced into homelessness all because they followed Falun Gong.
They made people out to be crazy which was their excuse to persecute people. Those that were abducted were forced into slave labor and also “disappeared.” Soon a trend appeared in China after such forced disappearances, organ harvesting became plentiful.
In the U.S. there is a 2 -3 year wait for an organ donor. In China there is a 1 – 4 week wait without an effective organ system. Knowing that there is a large Buddhist and Taoist population that would not be organ donors, and there is also a small amount of Death Row inmates, killed, the only thing that can explain the high accessibility of organs is the equivalent amount “disappearances” of Falun Gong followers. Since 2000 there have been witness accounts that corroborate this possibility. There was an undercover investigation which called 15 major Chinese hospitals which were asked right out if they had Falun Gong organs and all of them admitted to it thinking they were “selling” another organ transplant.
I use the word “sell” because in China there is no blood type matching. When a patient is looking for a transplant they undergo surgery and if the first one doesn’t take, then they will do another surgery and another until the organ is a match. This means more than one organ is taken from more than one human. All these are forced human organ removals. Even after all this the survival rate from a transplant in China is only 10%.
In 2015 a Peabody Award Documentary entitled Human Harvest was released. This showed that 60,000 – 100,000 transplants have been done with 90% being from Falun Gong followers, 10% from other religious followers.
Since all this has come to light six states have passed a law prohibiting citizens from going to China to receive a transplant. Also a slow but steady movement has started. Falun Gong went underground and some of the followers are breaking through the internet ban placed in China and getting outside signals to the people.
In 2001 a famous lawyer in China name Gao Zhisheng started practicing Human Rights law and representing people against the government. He “disappeared” for 9 years and then reappeared under house arrest. Because of his boldness others have followed in his stead and started a human rights movement. Over 22,000 law suits have been filed against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
Here in the states many groups are getting people to quit the CCP through petitions and websites. Some of these local groups are found in Monterey Park, San Gabriel, and Hollywood. To hear uncensored news about China tune into The Epoch news found on http://www.theepochtimes.com
Bud is shown (L) with Dr. Chen. To get involved on stopping forced organ harvesting please visit the website: http://www.stoporganharvesting.org/More News worth Noting . . .
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