“Bloody Harvest” Book Tour Exposes Forced Organ Harvesting in China

Canadian human rights advocates David Kilgour and David Matas are in Taiwan to raise awareness about forced organ harvesting in Mainland China. Their book, “Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong” was recently published in Chinese. This week, they toured Taiwan to discuss their book.

[David Matas, Former Canadian MP]:
“We’re hoping through this book tour, we can get this message out to the people of Taiwan, about the abuse that’s happening, and what can be done about it.”

On Tuesday, Matas and Kilgour joined Taiwan’s lawmakers in the Legislative Yuan to discuss their findings. They exposed indirect evidence of Falun Gong practitioners being targeted for forced organ harvesting.

[David Kilgour, Former Canadian MP]:
“Doctors would come into the camps, they would look in their eyes, they would examine their organs with ultrasound and the like, and they were the only people in these camps who were medically examined thoroughly.”

In 2006 Matas and Kilgour started to investigate allegations that Falun Gong practitioners in China were systematically being killed for their organs. Their organs were then sold for a high price to transplant patients.

The allegations pointed to a new aspect of the Chinese regime’s campaign to eradicate the Falun Gong spiritual practice that it started in 1999.

Matas and Kilgour concluded, through their investigations that those crimes were being carried out. Since then, they have been raising awareness about the issue.

In Taiwan Kilgour urged health authorities to alert those who may be considering traveling to China for organ transplants.

[David Kilgour, Former Canadian MP]:
“Could you at least recommend to your Minister that he put up on your Foreign Affairs website that if patients go from Taiwan to China, there’s a very good chance they could be getting a kidney or a liver of a Falun Gong practitioner who’s been convicted of no offence, and simply working as forced labor in a labor camp.”

Matas and Kilgour have been invited to speak at various universities throughout Taiwan during their third trip to the island. In 2010, they were both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their investigation into forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.