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The Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital is a public hospital located in northeast China, Sujiatun district of Shenyang city, is alleged to be the location of a labor camp where Falun Gong 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

See also: Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

According to The Epoch Times (a pro-Falun Gong newspaper group) in March 2006, Chinese government agencies were conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong 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

Evidence of the accused labor camp in Sujiatun was not found by an investigation of the United States Department of State, as well as investigations by Chinese dissident Harry Wu. A US Congressional report detailed US embassy's two phased investigation, where an unannounced visit preceded an official visit led by Chinese authorities. The accusation of systematic organ harvesting was not confirmed nor denied by Amnesty International.

On November 24, 2007, Canadian newspaper Ottawa Citizen questioned the veracity of Wang's Sujiatun death camp allegation.

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.

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.

References

  1. "U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China Repression of Falun Gong, reports of organ harvesting still worry officials". America.gov. 16 April 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. Wu, Harry (8 June 2006). "Statement of Harry Wu about Sujiatun issue". Retrieved 2008-10-21. {{cite web}}: Text "Observechina.net" ignored (help)
  3. ^ Lum, Thomas (11 August 2006). "China and Falun Gong" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. p. 10. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
  4. McGregor, Glen (24 November 2007). "Inside China's 'crematorium'". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
  5. "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.
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