Sujiatun: the Chinese Treblinka?
Rumors- and perhaps more than rumors- are sweeping the world of a concentration camp at Sujiatun in northeastern China where followers of the outlawed and persecuted Falun Gong cult are forced to serve as living organ donors for the international market, while others are killed in order to harvest their vital organs.
The story of the Sujiatun death camp originates with Chinese human rights activists, some of whom claim to be eye-witnesses.
The current Discover Magazine's cover story features a gruesome exhibit of partially-dissected, plasticized human bodies currently touring the West- and disturbing evidence that they may be those of executed Chinese prisoners.
One corpse, Discovery reports, was found to have a bullet hole in its head.
The practice of selling the organs of executed prisoners is a well-established one in China. Chinese authorties, however, deny the Suijiatun story.
The Chinese regime operates a human body processing plant in Dalien, where the organs of prisoners are harvested. Evidence suggests that some of the bodies in the touring exhibit came from there, and there is conjecture that some may be those of former prisoners at Sujiatun.
Members of the cult have been active in resisting repressive policies of the Communist regime. Among their activities have been efforts to breach the so-called "Great Firewall of China," through which the regime insulates Chinese internet users from subversive websites and concepts.
HT: Rev. Mike Zamzow
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They categorically deny it. If you don't believe me you can call them yourself.
Be sure to let them know you are an US citizen, and you wish to speak to an American officer in US Citizen's Services. Here's their phone number:
(86-24) 2322-1198
Foreign consulates have the responsibility to provide services to its citizens, including economic, cultural, local news and events, provide advice on traveling.
They reassured me there is no concentration camp in Sujiatun, and it would be safe for US citizens to travel to that part of China.
I would recommend that you call them; they will give you a satisfactory answer.
Even the coworkers in the hospital do not know what’s really going on, how could US consulate know. Sujiatun death camp looks like a school above ground, but the underground facilities extend for miles.
Since the first exposure of Sujiatun on March 8, they have emptied Sujiatun entirely. The Chinese Communist Party would do anything to cover it. Everybody who’s involved is in danger.
However here's a news regarding the authenticity of the concentration camp allegation that can be verified (and I have):
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18669046-7583,00.html
"It appears the claims by Falun Gong have been at least substantially exaggerated. Initial investigations by researchers for a US congressional committee have identified the site at Sujiatun as a hospital, where it is suspected organ harvesting occurs but on nowhere near the scale claimed."
Feel free to contact The Australian, or US Congressional Committee on International Relations if you have questions about the article.
Bear in mind, too, that there is very little in China that is verifiable- and that by design. The denials of the Chinese government are unverifiable, too- and that's problematic, since they're the ones with the power to make the truth readily verifiable.
They choose repression and lies instead.
No diplomatic service on Earth would accuse its host country of something like Sujiatun without absolutely incontrovertible evidence- evidence that would compel, at the very least, the closing of the consulate, if not at least a temporary recall of the ambassador. To acknowledge that there might be any truth at all in this story would be an act so fraught with diplomatic complications that I'm afraid that western government officials, and Western diplomats especially, are not the most reliable sources here. That's certainly the case when they're speaking officially and on the record.
Only the most naive would expect representatives from a U.S. congressional committee to be admitted to look around at an operating death camp! I'm afraid the track record of the Chinese government has rendered those persecuted under its misrule a great deal more credible than it is itself.
But I quite agree that the matter needs to be thoroughly investigated. I invite you to join in calling for exactly that.
Let UN inspectors be admitted unescorted into to Sujiatun with 24 hours notice. If they refused, I hope you would have the objectivity in joining me in wondering why.
Just as I wonder why you're reacting so strongly to an accusation against a regime with Beijing's bloody history. I've carefully couched this in terms of rumors. I have not made direct accusations. But I frankly am inclined to believe those rumors, because it is so much in character for Beijing. What's one more such crime, more or less, to a regime as steeped in blood and horror as the one in China?
http://chruchinchina.blogspot.com/
Please read it. I think it will put his comments in context.
Sunday, your naivette is astounding.
One of its prime purposes is to pull the wool over the eyes of naive Westerners.
Ask Paul and Bernice Nolls, they'll be happy to oblige I'm sure:
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Church/China-Xinzheng-Church-1.html