China Expert: Upside KP Politicians Involved in Organ Trafficking Bo Xilai
Bo Xilai, whose wife is expecting her Gu Kailai just been convicted of murder is, according to an American investigative journalist embroiled in illegal organ trafficking and the systematic killing of Falun Gong members - Vienna. Ethan Gutmann, author and working as a businessman a few years in China claimed on Thursday in Vienna: "All the media reports about the court case, Ku, and it is spoken publicly about This suggests that this is not the real issue.. "
An estimated 65 000 supporters of the Falun Gong meditation movement had become in the years 2001 to 2008 victims of illegal organ harvesting, Gutmann suggested. One of the sad center of the organ trade is the province of Liaoning have been. Gutmann believes that not only Bo Xilai, who was governor from 2003 to 2007 the province was involved in the processes, but also security chief Zhou Yongkang and the former Communist Party chief, Jiang Zemin. Zhou is known as a supporter Bos, Jiang initiated the persecution of Falun Gong.
Disappeared Prisoners
In his book, to be published next year and the working title "Execution Ward" bears, Ethan Gutmann wants to bring these events to light. In 1999, the - not uncontroversial - Meditation movement that sees itself as a traditional Buddhist "school culture", banned in China. Since 2001, the accumulated cases of imprisoned Falun Gong members, disappeared.
"China is a surveillance society. Where the military and the party members will be particularly monitored. It is therefore highly unlikely that trafficking is happening without the government would have noticed anything about it," said Gutmann. The highlight of the organ trade would have been 2006 to 2007, then go back to the cases and after 2008 were no longer known. His guess: The government has tolerated the procedures likely to intervene in 2008 and during the Olympic Games. "We do not know if was stopped or whether the organ trade is now hidden better," admits Gutmann. "I do not care - the past must be explained."
Not Gutmann is the first to "reveal" the alleged illegal organ harvesting from Falun Gong members: 2006 Canadians David Matas and David Kilgour wrote in a report that there was evidence that in Chinese prisons, political prisoners, kidney, liver, heart , lung and cornea are removed.
The sale of organs have already started in the '80s, says Gutmann. At that time, quasi legal operations performed by executions, in which the inmates had partially consented even himself. Over time, the organ harvesting have been increasingly institutionalized and systematic. "As far as we can tell, the change began in 1997," said Gutmann. At that time the government took brutality against a demonstration in front of the Uyghur Gulja. Six months later appeared the first case of a young political prisoner who was stripped of his organs. After the banning of the movement, the number of imprisoned Falun Gong members rapidly. The early 2000s, therefore, about half of the approximately five million prisoners who are still in China, were Praktizierer been the practice of meditation. (APA, 16/08/2012)
Read the full article here (German).