Chinese hospitals are harvesting the body parts of thousands of live political prisoners and Australians are buying them, according to the Falun Gong practitioners who visited Kempsey.
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A group of seven practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong or Falun Dafa, a series of exercises similar to t’ai chi, outside the Kempsey Shire Council on Thursday September 22, inviting locals to join in to raise awareness of organ harvesting.
The visit was part of a tour which will see the group, a Taoist-Buddhist sect, publicly practice Falun Gong in 200 Australian cities and towns as part of their campaign to make Australians aware of the grim truth behind readily available Chinese organs.
“In Australia we know people have to wait over two years to find an organ donor,” Ms Taylor said. “Many westerners, including Australians, go to China because organs are advertised online and are easy to buy.”
Ms Taylor said she believed many of the advertised organs were taken from Falun Gong followers who were detained in camps run by the government and killed for their organs.
“It’s killing on demand,” she said. “One of our group members was detained for eight years before she escaped. She is lucky but she is very worried about her friends who are still in the camp.”
Ms Taylor said Falun Gong was ‘a traditional practice for mind and body, like yoga’ whose followers are being persecuted by the Chinese government.
“The Chinese government see us as a threat,” she said. “We are also targeted for organ harvesting because our organs are healthy.”
Human Harvest: China's Organ Trafficking, a documentary by Leon Lee, revealed doctors and medical students working in state-run civilian and military hospitals take up to 11,000 organs a year from donors under no anaesthetic to supply China's lucrative "organs on-demand" transplant program.
Filmmaker Leon Lee followed a network of investigators comprised of international researchers, doctors and human rights lawyers for eight years as they worked to mobilise international condemnation of what they said was a booming billion-dollar organ harvesting industry for the benefit of wealthy paying organ recipients.
"When I cut through [the body] blood was still running ... this person was not dead," said one doctor of his first encounter with live organ harvesting as a medical student filmed by Lee.
Chinese officials have denied the allegations, claiming organ donors are volunteers.