International Human Rights Lawyer David Matas Interviewed by Sound of Hope Radio

Famous Canadian international human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) David Kilgour validated the claim that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting organs for profit from Falun Gong practitioners in China with their independent investigation report published in July 2006. Jewish himself, David Matas compared the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners when he was interviewed by Sound Of Hope Radio Station in Germany.

Matas pointed out that both persecutions made use of advanced technology. “During the Third Reich period in Germany, a modern industrialised nation was closely connected to unspeakable brutality. This made the genocide of the Jewish people more effective. For example without wireless communication, it was not possible to cover such a large area through communication. In China today, the advanced organ transplant technology is also closely connected to the persecution of Falun Gong.”

Matas thinks that the second similarity is people’s reaction. “The first time people heard about the genocide of the Jewish people, due to the large scale of the horror and its normal appearance, people just could not believe such things could happen. In the case of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, we are also experiencing the same reaction.”

Organ harvesting from living people is a new thing, it is not an old form of human rights violation, or an old form of evil behaviour, but it is a new form of evil. People tend to believe what they have already known. When something completely new happens, people will not believe it. I was growing up during the period of the Jewish genocide, at that time people had the same reaction as well.”

Matas thinks that the Nazi propaganda is the same as CCP one in essence. "Paul Joseph Goebbels said that propaganda is not established on small lies, but big lies. You need to tell the large lies repeatedly, and the lies need to be told in a closed environment where no one could refute it. This is what the CCP is doing. The CCP has never mentioned the persecution of Falun Gong; they cannot deny organ harvesting because this is an obvious fact. But the CCP is still denying the Tiananmen massacre; they are still denying the entire human rights abuse. I can see that they are repeating the lies using different methods.”

For those living in China, Matas thinks that without the freedom of the press, without freedom to access information over the internet they can be easily manipulated. He said, “ In fact they are the victim of these propaganda, it is very hard for them to not believe in the lies, and see the truth”.