Former Canadian MP David Kilgour has been visiting London. He’s promoting his new book, Bloody Harvest. Co-authored with lawyer David Matas, it presents 52 different pieces of evidence that the Chinese communist regime is harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners--to sell for profit.

Kilgour gave a seminar last week about his research into organ harvesting at the School of Oriental and African Studies, one of the colleges of the University of London.

On December 10th , World Human Rights Day, he was at the Houses of Parliament to talk about organ harvesting and human rights abuse in China with Lords and MPs.

Mr. Kilgour told us how the Chinese regime has not been able to contest his allegations.

[David Kilgour, Co-author, Bloody Harvest]
“The government of China has had nothing to say about our report, form the first one, to the revised one, and now to the book. They have nothing to say of substance in reply to our book, so we know we’re on very firm ground. We have 52 kinds of proof, you may not like the 52nd kind, but the 37th or the 1st. At some point you have to say the case is overwhelming and it is overwhelming.”

Lord Cobbold attended Kilgour’s seminar.

[Lord Cobbold, U.K. Parliament]
“I just think that human rights in China are very important, as they are throughout the world, and clearly there are problems at the moment which require a change.”

Another Lord, Lord Nelson, watches over Trafalgar Square, one of the most popular places in Britain for human rights demonstrations. It is here that Kilgour and other supporters of human rights in China attend a public rally.

Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, gave details of a new system he aims for the European Union to set up, to allow people in China to report human rights offences. Offences such as those described in Kilgour’s book could all be reported.

[Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President, European Parliament]
“This process was used during the Cold War, set up by West Germany so that people in East Germany, under communism, could send in denunciations, to a town called Saltzgitter in West Germany, where this confidential register was maintained. 44,000 cases were submitted to Saltzgitter, and that is just from one relatively small country. In China, there must be hundreds of thousands of people engaged in torture and persecution, possibly millions, probably millions. They should know that their names are being taken, that the torture they are doing is being registered, and that one day they will face prosecution.” 

One of those who could testify in McMillan-Scott’s proposed system is Enver Tohti. Tohti says his superiors tricked him into taking part in organ harvesting when he was a junior surgeon in China’s Xinjiang province back in 1995. Judging by his experience operating on an executed prisoner, organ harvesting is nothing new in China.

[Enver Tohti, UK Uighur Association]
“I could feel his pain, this person had been shot and injured, but he wasn’t dead. Then we opened his chest, his liver and both his kidneys were removed. The operation had to be very quick, after the organs were removed, the two who were in charge, took the organs in a box and left quickly.”

The new book Bloody Harvest, although shocking, may only scratch the surface of this type of human rights abuse under the Chinese regime.