Monday, August 07, 2006

media - Debunking the organ-story

Most of you have probably read the story where China was accused of 'concentration camp style' in Sujiatun harvesting of organs from prisoners. I have never linked to the story, since the sources sounded rather suspect, although there was also no reason to denounce the story. The fact that mainly Falun Gong media reported or were used as sources made me rather uncomfortable.
The reasons to debunk that story are there now, thanks to this translation by ESWN of Wu Hongda of the dissident China Information Center. You have to read the full translation to capture the depth of the story, but Wu comes with strong arguments. I'm not a fan of Harry Wu either, but the fact that he is tearing apart this story adds to the value.
4,500 persons in total would mean 1,500 persons per year, or at least 120 persons per month whose organs were removed and then they were murdered. This was technically infeasible and impossible to accomplish in an environment such as Sujiatun.
The way Wu Hongda was intimidated, according to his own account, is at least as interesting.

1 comments:

bobby fletcher said...

In addition to Wu's investigation, US government also investigated and found FLG's claim not credible:

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

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