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Sujiatun Death Camp: Putting Conscience On Trial
By Shizhong Chen

Please remember the name: Sujiatun. It will one day be as infamous as Auschwitz and Dachau.

The National Traditional Chinese Medicine Thrombus Treatment Center in Shenyang City. According to a former nurse who worked there, the Sujiatun death camp is in an underground complex connected to this hospital.

The furnace unit on the southwest side of the hospital. There are two doors leading to the underground complex of the Sujiatun death camp. According to the witnesses, the remains of Falun Gong practitioners are incinerated here after their organs are extracted.

On March 8, 2006, a Chinese journalist on the run from the Chinese communist regime disclosed to Falun Gong practitioners in the United States some appalling news: a secret death camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in China.

According to this journalist, over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been taken to Sujiatun. "I believe that once they are in they 100% cannot come back out," the journalist said. He also disclosed that there are incineration chambers and a large number of doctors there. "Why are there incineration chambers there? Why are there so many doctors inside? Certainly not for the benevolent treatment of prisoners. Something you simply cannot imagine..."

"The prisoners, the Communist Party definitely will not let them just waste food there. Why are they there then? .. They will all be murdered, and all their organs will be harvested and distributed to hospitals. The sale of human organs is a vastly profitable trade in China."

Falun Gong practitioners are not the only victims of such crimes. One week after the journalist's disclosure, a former nurse whose ex-husband had taken part in harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners also stepped forward to testify:

"I used to work at the Liaoning Thrombus Treatment Center, which was next to the concentration camp. My ex-husband had taken part in removing corneas from Falun Gong practitioners. This brought disaster to my family."

"In early 2001, my husband was assigned by the hospital to secretly remove corneas from Falun Gong practitioners. He hid this from me at the beginning, but slowly I sensed he was in great agony, had nightmares often, and was always stressed. After my repeated inquiries, he told me the truth in 2003."

"He knew they were Falun Gong practitioners. Every doctor who took part knew. They were told that eliminating Falun Gong was not a crime, but helping the Communist Party to do 'cleansing.' Those who were taken in on the operating tables were anesthetized. Elderly people or children were mostly used for harvesting corneas."

"At the time when my ex-husband told me about this, he could no longer bear the torment of doing such evil things, and decided to leave China to escape the horror. He said to me: you cannot possibly know my despair, because those Falun Gong practitioners were still alive. It was different from removing organs from dead people - they were alive."

"Because of this, I divorced him. I said to him: you are done with your career; you will not be able to hold a scalpel in the future." "I know there are still Falun Gong practitioners in that hospital," this nurse said in the end. "I hope this crime can be exposed to the international society as quickly as possible, so their lives can be saved. I also hope, through my disclosure, to atone my relative's crime."

Mr. Zuo Zhigang, age 33, was arrested on May 30, 2001, by the Shijiazhuang City police. He was beaten to death that night at the Qiaoxi District Police Station. His corpse was covered with scars, and there were two large square-shaped holes on the back of his torso, consistent with kidney harvesting.

Mr. Ren Pengwu, age 33, was arrested by the police in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province on February 16, 2001. Five days later, he was murdered and all his organs, from his pharynx and larynx to his lower body, were removed. The authorities hastily cremated his remains that same day without his family's knowledge or consent.

On May 14, 2004, two policemen abducted Ms. Wang Yunjie while she was working in a shopping center and later sent her to the infamous Masanjia forced labor camp. To break her will and force her to renounce Falun Gong, the police tortured her every day for the next six months with beatings, hanging her in the air, depriving her of sleep, solitary confinement, forcing her to stand or squat for days at a time, etc. She was also forced to do hard labor for extended hours. In December 2002, after depriving her of sleep for many days, the police stripped her clothes and shocked her breasts with two electric batons for half and hour. They then tied her up like a ball by forcibly bending her upper body down to her legs and handcuffing her arms behind her back. While in that position, they hung her up by her wrists for seven hours. The protracted torture severely damaged her body, the electric shocks disfigured her breasts, and her left breast became infected and festered. Even then, the labor camp continued to torture her for another six months. Only when she was on the verge of death did the labor camp order her family to pay 2000 Yuan and take her home.

Ms. Wang Xia was forcibly separated from her 14-month-old baby in early 2002 and sentenced to seven years in jail. To protest, she went on a hunger strike. The police retaliated by torturous force feeding, leaving the feeding tube in her esophagus for weeks at a time. The police also pressed needles into her nails, burned her fingers, inserted a broom handle in her private parts, and injected her with harmful drugs. In June 2004, she was tortured to just skin and bones, weighing only 45 lbs. The police sent Ms. Wang home when she was in critical condition so as to avoid responsibility for her dying in custody. Ms. Wang recovered from critical condition, but lost her memory. In spite of her condition, the police took her back in custody on December 23, 2005.

Mr. Wang Bin was arrested and detained at the Dongfeng Xinchun Labor Camp. On the night of September 27, 2000, five guards and prisoners beat him so severely that they broke his neck, injured his tonsils, crushed his lymph nodes, and fractured several bones. He was taken to the Daqing People's Hospital, but died in the hospital on October 4, 2000. Two doctors in the hospital removed his heart and brain. The photo shows that his body had been operated on.

The victims are not even limited to Chinese. It is an open secret that China has become the world capital of organ transplantation, and ships human organs to nearby countries such as Thailand. Tens of thousands from different parts of the world have received organ transplants in China and Thailand, being assured that the organs have been legally obtained. How will they and their surgeons feel when they learn about the barbaric organ harvesting, even if the organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners turn out to account for a portion of all human organs used in transplant operations? Is there a way for them to remove the doubt? Will they want to find out? Or will they bear that doubt and forever avoid mentioning "transplanted in China"?

Another doctor recently stated that extracting organs from living prisoners is common across China. How many more camps like Sujiatun exist?

It was precisely because we abhor such appalling crimes that humanity vowed "Never again!" after the shock of the Holocaust. Yet, as this vow is still ringing in the ears of Holocaust survivors, we are in for another shock - or are we? How do we explain to ourselves and our children that we have watched the systematic eradication of Falun Gong for more than six years and allowed it to escalate to the emergence of human organ harvesting factories like Sujiatun?

It is not due to a lack of information. Ever since July 1999, Falun Gong practitioners in China have been taking great risks to collect and send abroad, on a daily basis, detailed information on the extensive and severe human rights violations committed by the Chinese communist regime. Falun Gong practitioners overseas have worked their hardest to disseminate this information to governments, media, opinion leaders, the United Nations, and the general public to appeal for their attention.

United Nation's Reports

It is not because the information is unsubstantiated. In the past few years, many Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Commission have cited in their annual reports numerous cases of torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese regime. Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir wrote in her 2003 report: "The cruelty and brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description." On October 15, 2004, seven Special Rapporteurs sent a joint letter to China to express their concern about the persecution of Falun Gong. These Special Rapporteurs are the most-respected authorities on human rights. Their findings and opinions on the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong have been reprinted to thousands upon thousands of copies and submitted to world governments and media.

History, unfortunately, repeats itself. Just as the Holocaust information provided by Jewish groups was cast aside or downplayed because of the "unsubstantiated nature of the information" and its "prejudiced sources," information from Falun Gong practitioners has received the same fate. History has also shown that all major atrocities occurred when there was not enough media exposure, when perilous signals were ignored because they were "incomplete" or "unsubstantiated" or from "prejudiced sources" - when evildoers' deceits prevail, when the silence allows the evildoers to carry on unnoticed and unhindered.

History, however, never duplicates itself exactly.

There is no major military or ideological confrontation in the world now. While the Allies did not have their focus on saving the Holocaust victims, at least they were fighting the Nazis and determined to win the war. We do not have that excuse now. On the contrary, we are apparently determined to win the market in China. Technology is far more advanced now than it was in WWII, and we do not even need to be at Auschwitz or Buchenwald to know what is going on there. If 6,000 people have been taken in to Sujiatun and none has come out, how hard is it to see from surveillance satellites the suspicious traffic going in and out to figure out that it is a death camp?

There are now many international human rights laws that were not available before the Nuremberg trials, and there are now many surveillance and protection mechanisms implemented by the United Nations. How hard is it to demand an international investigation into the serious claim of the death camp's existence? What were those international human rights laws established for?

We do not always ignore incomplete or unsubstantiated information from China, however. When Dr. Jiang Yanyong disclosed the Chinese regime's deadly lies about the SARS epidemic, the retired doctor's letter to the media contained only what he had heard from his colleagues. Did the world hesitate for a second because the information was "incomplete" or "unsubstantiated"? Why didn't the information's incompleteness prevent decisive action by the international community? In fact, his letter was sent only to Chinese media, but Western media got hold of it and publicized it. Why does the world react so differently to the SARS news and the Sujiatun news, both of life-and-death importance? Isn't it because Sujiatun is about other people's lives?

If that is not enough to make us look at the selfish side of our humanity, consider this: if Sujiatun happened anywhere else other than China, whether in democratic countries or in North Korea, Sudan, or Cuba, it would have caused major outcries. Only the human greed for economic gains from China has kept the Sujiatun death camp from being an international issue.

"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated." Justice Jackson knew the legacy that the Nuremberg trials would leave behind when he drafted his opening speech. If he have lived to see the post-Nuremberg wrongs, he might have been more introspective and lead a trial on human conscience and how it could allow the wrongs to continue to happen.

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Dear citizens of the world,

    This is our first joint newsletter between the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group and the Conscience Foundation.

    Many of you, after reading shocking stories of the Chinese regime's barbaric torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners, have asked: "Why did we not know?" and "What can we do?" Your questions and comments made us realize that exposing the evil is not enough and that we must put conscience in action. We therefore have decided to form the Conscience Foundation to provide a broad base for people to speak up for human conscience, and adopted "conscience in action" as our motto.

    Our announcement is pushed forward by some shocking news about organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in the Sujiatun death camp in China (see the article above). While we apologize for our hastily designed website (https://www.consciencefoundation.org), in response to the shocking news, we urge you to take action to:

    1.. Spread the news to your friends. If we all do it, this people's medium will be more powerful than those news conglomerates who care more about their Chinese market;

    2.. Contact your governments to demand that they conduct an international investigation on the Sujiatun death camp;

    The Hon. John Howard MP
    Prime Minister of Australia
    Parliament House,
    Canberra ACT 2600
    The Hon K. C. Beazley MP
    Leader of the Opposition
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600
    The Hon. Alexander Downer
    The Minister for Foreign Affairs
    Parliament House,
    CANBERRA ACT 2600
    Mr K. M. Rudd MP
    Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600

    3.. Contact the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan and High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Louise Arbour, and demand an urgent intervention from their offices:

    Hon. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General
    United Nations Headquarters
    First Avenue at 46th Street
    New York, NY 10017
    Press Office: (509) 510-2563 ext.: 6343
    [email protected]
    Louise Arbour
    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
    1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland
    Spokesperson: +41 (22) 917-9375
    Press Relations: +41 (22) 917-3309
    External Relations: +41 (22) 917-3965
    Fax: +41 (22) 917-0092
    [email protected]

    4.. Contact delegations of the International Committee of the Red Cross in your area and ask for their intervention: https://www.icrc.org

    You can find other action plans on our website, and we will keep you posted as we develop more action plans.

    For conscience,

    The Conscience Foundation

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Human Rights Advocates Plea For Change In China
Reported by: 9News Web produced by: Neil Relyea Photographed by: 9News 4/16/2006

A world-wide campaign against alleged horrible human rights violations in China rolled into Cincinnati on Sunday.

Outside City Hall, activists told horrifying tales of the harvesting of organs of people living in concentration camps throughout China.

One witness claims about 4,000 victims -- many still alive -- had their organs including kidneys, hearts lungs, and skin, harvested and sold for huge profit.

"And for a half century Chinese people have been suffering and they have been controlled, they have been persecuted," said Sunny Lu, a University of Cincinnati professor. "They're living in fear. They have no freedom of information. They have no freedom of expression."

The protestors, with a goal of ending torture in China, are calling for international, unrestricted investigations of the camps and into the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

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