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| ], the province in which the Sujiatun hospital is located]] | ], the province in which the Sujiatun hospital is located]] | ||
| The '''Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital''' is a public ] located in the ] district of ], in northeast ]. It attracted worldwide attention in March 2006 when |
The '''Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital''' is a public ] located in the ] district of ], in northeast ]. It attracted worldwide attention in March 2006 when the Falun Gong-affiliated journal '']'' published allegations that it was the location of a "] where ] practitioners had their organs forcibly removed". The government of the People's Republic of China denied the allegations, and investigations by the ] and human rights activist ] did not find evidence to support them; some writers. | ||
| ==Organ harvesting allegations== | ==Organ harvesting allegations== | ||
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| Chinese government agencies were conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living ] practitioners. Based on the testimony of two apparent eye-witness, the practitioners were supposedly detained in labor camps, the hospital basement, 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. .--> | Chinese government agencies were conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living ] practitioners. Based on the testimony of two apparent eye-witness, the practitioners were supposedly detained in labor camps, the hospital basement, 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== | |||
| 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 | work= | 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=}}</ref> | |||
| 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 | work=}}</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. | 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 | work=}}</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. | ||
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| 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 investigation by Wu and by the United States Department of State. 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 | work=] | 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 | work=] | title=Live Organ Extraction Continues while the Evidence Is Transferred | date=29 April 2006}}</ref> | 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 investigation by Wu and by the United States Department of State. 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 | work=] | 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 | work=] | title=Live Organ Extraction Continues while the Evidence Is Transferred | date=29 April 2006}}</ref> | ||
| 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 | work=] | accessdate=2008-10-21 | page=4}}</ref> Although McGregor reported that there was no organ harvesting in China, Ethan Gutmann, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, has pointed out several shortcomings of the investigations and suggested that the report was not enough to disprove the allegations; specifically, he pointed out that they did not check to see if the facility had been altered before the investigation, didn't collect forensic samples, and conducted the investigation while being monitored by a CCP member.<ref name=gutmann>Ethan Gutmann, , Weekly Standard, 05/08/2006, Volume 011, Issue 32 </ref> | |||
| Since the Sujiatun controversy subsided, new evidence supporting the allegations of organ harvesting has arisen, and in November 2008, the United Nations Committee Against Torture made a strong statement on the matter. They cited Nowak's note that an increase in organ transplant operations coincides with “the beginning of the persecution of ” and asked for "a full explanation of the source of organ transplants." The Committee stated that it is concerned with the information that Falun Gong practitioners "have been extensively subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and that some of them have been used for organ transplants." They called for the state to immediately conduct or commission an independent investigation of the claims of organ harvesting, and take measures to ensure that those responsible for such abuses are prosecuted and punished.<ref name=UNCAT>United Nations Committee Against Torture, , Forty-first session, Geneva, 3-21 November 2008</ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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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 the Falun Gong-affiliated journal The Epoch Times published allegations 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 the allegations, and investigations by the United States Department of State and human rights activist Harry Wu did not find evidence to support them; some writers.
Organ harvesting allegations
See also: Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in ChinaIn March 2006, an unidentified Chinese journalist 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, this and another account were repeatedly reported in the Falun Gong affiliated Epoch Times. Accounts also surfaced from an unidentified woman claiming to be the wife of a Sujiatun doctor who told the Epoch Times that her husband had been forced to extract organs from live detainees.
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, known 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 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 investigation by Wu and by the United States Department of State. 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.
- "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|work= - ^ 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) - Tong Xin and Li Jia (7 June 2007). "Organ Harvesting Surgeon Identified". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Cite error: The named reference
CIPFGwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - "Live Organ Extraction Continues while the Evidence Is Transferred". The Epoch Times. 29 April 2006.
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