Once in a while here, an older post will generate an ongoing comment thread that produces resources and updated information to go along with some interesting dialogue, and thus bears revisiting. Earlier this year, a series of entries about allegations that the Chinese government was harvesting organs from unwilling Falun Gong prisoners at a hospital complex in Sujiatun began to get some attention. One of those posts, "Report on Chinese Organ Harvesting" is where a good bit of the comment action is, and it also contains links to the previous posts and lots of good resouces on the subject.
The report mentioned was the one by independent Canadian journalists David Matas and David Kilgour, who conducted an investigation which concluded that the allegations of organ harvesting (and murder) by the Chinese government were true. Advocating for the Chinese regime in comments on all these posts is one "bobby fletcher" , and he is countered by Canadian blogger Makina, along with Jana and others.
I've got no dog in this fight other than a desire to see the truth come out, and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners stopped, and I do find some of the interviews I've read at Epoch Times, and the reporting by Matas and Kilgour to be fairly persuasive. I think it's entirely proper for the human rights record of the Chinese government to be examined and discussed openly as the 2008 Olympics puts them at the center of world attention. And if that happens here in a comment thread at an obscure blog, that's OK too.
(Bloggers get criticized for excessive self-linking, so I try to keep that to a minimum around here...forgive this exception to my rule.)
Related:
Murder For Organs in China
Jay Nordlinger on Sujiatun at NRO
Epoch Times Organ Harvesting Article Archive
Posted by dan at September 8, 2006 8:41 PM