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| The '''Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital''' is a public ] located in the ] district of ], in northeast ]. It attracted worldwide attention in March 2006 when rumors surfaced that it was the location of a ] where ] practitioners had their organs forcibly removed. The government of the People's Republic of China denied those allegations, and later investigations by the ] and human rights activist ] found no evidence to support the allegations; Falun Gong-affiliated journals such as '']'' and Clearwisdom.net, however, have continued publishing stories and reports about alleged human rights abuses in the hospital. | |||
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| The '''Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital''' is a public ] located in northeast ], ] district of ] city, is alleged to be the location of a ] where ] practitioners had their organs forcibly removed. The evidence for these claims however, are only based on the testimony of two supposed witnesses, and investigations by the US State Department and other governments have found no evidence whatsoever to support these claims. | |||
| ==Organ harvesting allegations== | ==Organ harvesting allegations== | ||
| {{see also|Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China}} | {{see also|Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China}} | ||
| In March 2006, an unidentified Chinese journalist under the pseudonym Jin Zhong claimed that he had discovered a secret underground prison beneath the hospital, where as many as 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were being held for organ harvesting,<ref name="Wash">{{cite web | url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2006/mar/23/20060323-114842-5680r/ | title=China harvesting inmates' organs, journalist says | last=Gertz | first=Bill | publisher=] | date=24 March 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> Starting on March 9,<ref name=ESWN>{{cite web | url=http://zonaeuropa.com/20060806_1.htm | title=Chinese dissident doubts organ harvest claim | last=Callick | first=Rowan | date=14 August 2006 | publisher=] | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> Jin's and other accounts of Sujiatun were widely reported in the ''Epoch Times'', a journal affiliated with Falun Gong. Supposed eyewitness accounts also surfaced from an unidentified woman claiming to be the wife of a Sujiatun doctor; she in an interview with ''Epoch Times'' that her husband had been forced to extract organs from live detainees.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-3-17/39405.html | author = Ji Da | publisher=] | date=17 March 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21 | title=New Witness Confirms Existence of Chinese Concentration Camp, Says Organs Removed from Live Victims}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=A Place Called Sujiatun | last=Nordlinger | first=Jay | url=http://www.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger200603300722.asp | publisher=] | date=30 March 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> | |||
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| ⚫ | Chinese government agencies were conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living ] practitioners. Based on apparent eye-witness testimony of two individuals, the practitioners were supposedly detained in labor camps, hospital basements, and prisons located in Sujiatun Hospital, subjected to blood and urine tests, and then matched with organ recipients. When an organ was required, they were injected with potassium to stop their heart and their organs removed and later sold, with their remains being incinerated. .--> | ||
| ==Investigations== | ==Investigations== | ||
| The reports were quickly investigated and corroborated by Falun Gong-affiliated organizations such as the ] (CIPFG)<ref name=CIPFG>{{cite web | url=http://cipfg.org/en/index.php?news=230 | title=Summary: Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Prisoners | publisher=] | date=1 May 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> Clearwisdom.net,<ref>{{cite web | date=21 March 2006 | url=http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2863.html | title=Witness Continues to Reveal the Horrors of Organ Removal from Live Falun Gong Practitioners Inside the Sujiatun Concentration Camp | publisher= | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> and the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (which, citing the sensitive nature of the investigation, did not disclose its sources)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2852.html | date=19 March 2006 | title=An Investigation into Sujiatun Death Camp (Part I) | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong}}</ref>; and denied by the Chinese government, its embassies, and Sujiatun hospital staff and district officials.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ca.china-embassy.org/eng/xwdt/t247045.htm | title=Truth about the So-called "Sujiatun Concentration Camp" | publisher=] | date=18 April 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chinaembassy.bg/eng/zgzt/jpflg/t267188.htm | title=Sujiatun 'Concentration Camp' Sheer Lie | date=11 August 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=[http://bg.chineseembassy.org/eng/ Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Bulgaria}}</ref> | |||
| Evidence of the accused labor camp in ] was not found by an investigation of the ],<ref>{{cite web | title=U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China Repression of Falun Gong, reports of organ harvesting still worry officials | date=16 April 2006 | url=http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&amp;m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=}}</ref> as well as investigations by Chinese dissident ]<ref name=challenge>{{cite web | url=http://www.cicus.org/info_eng/artshow.asp?ID=6492 | title=Statement of Harry Wu about Sujiatun issue | last=Wu | first=Harry | Observechina.net | date=8 June 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref>. A US Congressional report detailed US embassy's two phased investigation, where an unannounced visit preceded an official visit led by Chinese authorities.<ref name=CRS>{{cite web | title=China and Falun Gong | url=http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf | date=11 August 2006 | page=10 | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=] | last=Lum | first=Thomas}}</ref> The accusation of systematic organ harvesting was not confirmed nor denied by Amnesty International.<ref name=CRS/> | |||
| Independent reports by unaffiliated organizations generally agreed that there was no evidence of live organ harvesting at Sujiatun. | |||
| The ] dismissed claims of there being a "concentration camp" at Sujiatun,<ref>{{cite web | title=U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China Repression of Falun Gong | date=16 April 2006 | url=http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/None/20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231.html | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=}}</ref> According to a report by the United States ], U.S. officials investigated the facility twice and found no evidence that it was being used for organ harvesting or detaining prisoners.<ref name=CRS>{{cite web | title=China and Falun Gong | url=http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL33437.pdf | date=11 August 2006 | page=10 | accessdate=2008-10-21 | publisher=] | last=Lum | first=Thomas}}</ref> ] stated that the claims could be neither confirmed nor denied.<ref name=CRS/> As the hospital is a joint venture with a company associated with the Malaysian government, Malay officials also visited the clinic and found it to be a hospital, not a concentration camp.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}<!--Dead link, unable to verify: http://crc.gov.my/clinicalTrial/documents/Proposal/TCM_Stroke%20TrialProtocol%20synopsis.pdf--> | |||
| Noted Chinese dissident ], who is known as a vocal critic of the Chinese government and its human rights record, also expressed doubts about the existence of a concentration camp at Sujiatun, stating that the evidence was insubstantial, the supposed eyewitness accounts inconsistent, the facilities at Sujiatun not amenable to such a large-scale operation, and the anonymous witnesses not credible.<ref name=challenge>{{cite web | url=http://www.cicus.org/info_eng/artshow.asp?ID=6492 | title=Statement of Harry Wu about Sujiatun issue | last=Wu | first=Harry | Observechina.net | date=8 June 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> Wu emphasized that his dismissal of reports about Sujiatun did not mean he was "cooperating with Beijing," and rather than more attention should be paid to the harvesting of organs from already-executed prisoners, which he believes has been conclusively proven and is more prevalent than the alleged live harvesting. Wu's criticism of the allegation was met with anger by several Falun Gong advocacy groups.<ref name=ESWN/> | |||
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| ⚫ | In 2007, Canadian journalist Glen McGregor was invited by the Chinese Medical Association, a Chinese ], to visit the hospital at Sujiatun. McGregor echoed Wu's analysis—namely, that the hospital was too small and too public to have been involved in large-scale organ harvesting.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=2c15d2f0-f0ab-4da9-991a-23e4094de949&p=1 | last=McGregor | first=Glen | title=Inside China's 'crematorium' | date=24 November 2007 | publisher=] | accessdate=2008-10-21 | page=4}}</ref> | ||
| The hospital that's being accused is a joint venture with a company associated with the Malaysian government. Malay officials have visited the clinic in previous year and also found it to be a hospital], not a concentration camp.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}<!--Dead link, unable to verify: http://crc.gov.my/clinicalTrial/documents/Proposal/TCM_Stroke%20TrialProtocol%20synopsis.pdf--> | |||
| In spite of denials by the officials and independent investigations, some Falun Gong-affiliated organizations have continued to publish reports about human rights abuses in Sujiatun; over a year after Wu's investigation and the United States Department of State's investigation, for example, the ''Epoch Times'' reported having discovered one of the doctors involved in the organ harvesting.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/3074.html | publisher=] | date=7 June 2007 | title=Organ Harvesting Surgeon Identified | accessdate=2008-10-21 | author=Tong Xin and Li Jia}}</ref> The CIPFG theorized that after Jin's report about organ harvesting at Sujiatun first surfaced, the government would have transferred all the detainees and destroyed all evidence of the concentration camp<ref name=CIPFG/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2869.html | publisher=] | title=Live Organ Extraction Continues while the Evidence Is Transferred | date=29 April 2006}}</ref> | |||
| According to Chinese authorities, the pictures used on Falun Gong websites as the suspected site of the "crematorium" in Sujiatun are actually photos of the hospital's 180 square meter boiler house, which is located in front of the residential garden and open to public view. A hospital director and Sujiatun district official have stated that the hospital only contains approximately 300 beds, and thus could not contain 6000 imprisoned practitioners as claimed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ca.china-embassy.org/eng/xwdt/t247045.htm | title=Truth about the So-called "Sujiatun Concentration Camp" | publisher=] | date=18 April 2006 | accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 01:01, 22 October 2008
The Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital is a public hospital located in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang, in northeast China. It attracted worldwide attention in March 2006 when rumors surfaced that it was the location of a concentration camp where Falun Gong practitioners had their organs forcibly removed. The government of the People's Republic of China denied those allegations, and later investigations by the United States Department of State and human rights activist Harry Wu found no evidence to support the allegations; Falun Gong-affiliated journals such as The Epoch Times and Clearwisdom.net, however, have continued publishing stories and reports about alleged human rights abuses in the hospital.
Organ harvesting allegations
See also: Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in ChinaIn March 2006, an unidentified Chinese journalist under the pseudonym Jin Zhong claimed that he had discovered a secret underground prison beneath the hospital, where as many as 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were being held for organ harvesting, Starting on March 9, Jin's and other accounts of Sujiatun were widely reported in the Epoch Times, a journal affiliated with Falun Gong. Supposed eyewitness accounts also surfaced from an unidentified woman claiming to be the wife of a Sujiatun doctor; she in an interview with Epoch Times that her husband had been forced to extract organs from live detainees.
Investigations
The reports were quickly investigated and corroborated by Falun Gong-affiliated organizations such as the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) Clearwisdom.net, and the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (which, citing the sensitive nature of the investigation, did not disclose its sources); and denied by the Chinese government, its embassies, and Sujiatun hospital staff and district officials.
Independent reports by unaffiliated organizations generally agreed that there was no evidence of live organ harvesting at Sujiatun. The United States Department of State dismissed claims of there being a "concentration camp" at Sujiatun, According to a report by the United States Congressional Research Service, U.S. officials investigated the facility twice and found no evidence that it was being used for organ harvesting or detaining prisoners. Amnesty International stated that the claims could be neither confirmed nor denied. As the hospital is a joint venture with a company associated with the Malaysian government, Malay officials also visited the clinic and found it to be a hospital, not a concentration camp.
Noted Chinese dissident Harry Wu, who is known as a vocal critic of the Chinese government and its human rights record, also expressed doubts about the existence of a concentration camp at Sujiatun, stating that the evidence was insubstantial, the supposed eyewitness accounts inconsistent, the facilities at Sujiatun not amenable to such a large-scale operation, and the anonymous witnesses not credible. Wu emphasized that his dismissal of reports about Sujiatun did not mean he was "cooperating with Beijing," and rather than more attention should be paid to the harvesting of organs from already-executed prisoners, which he believes has been conclusively proven and is more prevalent than the alleged live harvesting. Wu's criticism of the allegation was met with anger by several Falun Gong advocacy groups.
In 2007, Canadian journalist Glen McGregor was invited by the Chinese Medical Association, a Chinese non-governmental organization, to visit the hospital at Sujiatun. McGregor echoed Wu's analysis—namely, that the hospital was too small and too public to have been involved in large-scale organ harvesting.
In spite of denials by the officials and independent investigations, some Falun Gong-affiliated organizations have continued to publish reports about human rights abuses in Sujiatun; over a year after Wu's investigation and the United States Department of State's investigation, for example, the Epoch Times reported having discovered one of the doctors involved in the organ harvesting. The CIPFG theorized that after Jin's report about organ harvesting at Sujiatun first surfaced, the government would have transferred all the detainees and destroyed all evidence of the concentration camp
References
- Gertz, Bill (24 March 2006). "China harvesting inmates' organs, journalist says". Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ Callick, Rowan (14 August 2006). "Chinese dissident doubts organ harvest claim". The Australian. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Ji Da (17 March 2006). "New Witness Confirms Existence of Chinese Concentration Camp, Says Organs Removed from Live Victims". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Nordlinger, Jay (30 March 2006). "A Place Called Sujiatun". National Review. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ "Summary: Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Prisoners". Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong. 1 May 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- "Witness Continues to Reveal the Horrors of Organ Removal from Live Falun Gong Practitioners Inside the Sujiatun Concentration Camp". Clearwisdom.net. 21 March 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - "An Investigation into Sujiatun Death Camp (Part I)". World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong. 19 March 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- "Truth about the So-called "Sujiatun Concentration Camp"". Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Canada. 18 April 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- "Sujiatun 'Concentration Camp' Sheer Lie". [http://bg.chineseembassy.org/eng/ Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Bulgaria. 11 August 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - "U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China Repression of Falun Gong". Washington File. 16 April 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ Lum, Thomas (11 August 2006). "China and Falun Gong" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. p. 10. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Wu, Harry (8 June 2006). "Statement of Harry Wu about Sujiatun issue". Retrieved 2008-10-21.
{{cite web}}: Text "Observechina.net" ignored (help) - McGregor, Glen (24 November 2007). "Inside China's 'crematorium'". Ottawa Citizen. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Tong Xin and Li Jia (7 June 2007). "Organ Harvesting Surgeon Identified". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- "Live Organ Extraction Continues while the Evidence Is Transferred". The Epoch Times. 29 April 2006.