{"id":3566,"date":"2006-03-30T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/from-the-home-of-the-2008-summer-olympics.html"},"modified":"2006-03-30T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T10:33:21","slug":"from-the-home-of-the-2008-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/from-the-home-of-the-2008-summer-olympics.html","title":{"rendered":"From the home of the 2008 Summer Olympics.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Nordlinger reports on a report:<\/a><\/p>\n

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T<\/span>here is a horrifying story going around the world: In the northeast of China, thousands of prisoners are being held, so that they can be killed for their organs. The prisoners are practitioners of Falun Gong, the meditation-and-exercise system. The facility at which they are being held \u2014 called a "concentration camp" or a "death camp" \u2014 is at Sujiatun. Chinese human-rights activists believe that this name should cause the same shudders as Treblinka and the others.<\/p>\n

I cannot say whether this story is true; I can say that one ought to pay attention.<\/p>\n

Of course, "organ-harvesting" is a very familiar story: The PRC has been doing it, with prisoners, for many years. In 2001, the U.S. Congress held hearings on the matter, which caused a sensation. But the sensation died down, as sensations tend to do. Organ-harvesting has gone on, with no negative consequences for the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

Organ-selling is a huge business for the Chinese. You can obtain organs in China as you can nowhere else: any type, and very speedily.<\/p>\n

The subject of organ-harvesting has been revived by the discovery of Sujiatun. I will not attempt to do justice to this story in this space (as though justice could be done). I will mainly direct you to the website of the Epoch Times<\/em>, and specifically to its archive on Sujiatun: here<\/a>. The Epoch Times<\/em> is an international newspaper whose reason for being is to tell the truth about China. Media in China itself, of course, are government-owned or -controlled.<\/p>\n

I also wish to direct you to an article by the tireless Bill Gertz of the Washington Times<\/em>: here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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