Taiwan: Practitioners Appeal to City Council and Protest CCP's Atrocities

During the past two months, the atrocities of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wit respect to organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners in concentration camps for profit were exposed. To help more people know the evil nature of the CCP and stop its crimes, on May 18th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Chiayi appealed to the city council. City council members Chai Wen-hsu and Fu Da-wei accepted the petition letter. Director of city council Deng Ching-tien said that it would be reviewed by the process committee and transferred to the central government. Many media covered the event on spot.

Practitioners hold posters to condemn CCP's atrocities	Falun Gong practitioners hand in a petition letter to city council member Chai Wen-hsu and Fu Da-wei

City council member Chai Wen-hsu said that basic human rights and religious belief cannot be deprived. These are universal values. He hoped that via the media, all social circles would be called on to condemn the CCP's inhuman atrocities.

Sources reveal that the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong seven years ago. At least 2893 practitioners have been tortured to death and hundreds of thousands imprisoned, beaten, or forced to leave their homes. Many are missing and no one knows their whereabouts. In March of this year, several witnesses testified that the CCP had set up a secret concentration camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang and imprisoned 6000 practitioners for organ removal while they were still alive. Their bodies were then cremated to destroy the evidence. Reports have shown that similar crimes occur in other labour camps and prisons throughout China.

Practitioners emphasised that the CCP has hastens to conduct organ transplantation to eliminate all of the evidence i.e. any practitioner who was detained in such organ harvesting facilities. On May 4th, 2006, the Chiayi city council passed a resolution to "condemn the CCP's atrocities against Falun Gong and call on the international community to stop the CCP's crimes." The practitioners also asked the city council to pass another proposal to rescue practitioners facing immediate danger of being killed in China.

The practitioners said that during recent weeks they visited city council members and explained to them the facts of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. The city council members were shocked at the CCP's brutal atrocities and expressed their support against the persecution.

The content of the petition letter of the Chiayi practitioners was as follows:

1. Call on United Nations, International Red Cross and World Health Organization to thoroughly investigate the CCP's atrocities in concentration camps, labour camps, and related hospitals.

2. Call on international human rights organisation to thoroughly investigate the persecution of Falun Gong and stop the CCP's crimes.

3. Calling on the government to pay attention to the live organ removal issue and urge the international community to pay attention to the CCP's violation of human rights.

4. Urge the government to widely inform citizens that organ transplants in mainland China involve illegal live organ removal. The CCP should state the source of the organs to safeguard medical quality and life so as to pay attention to basic human rights.