Geneva, March 27th, 2006 - Members of the various organizations gathered across the street from the entrance to the UN Human Rights Commission to denounce the killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organ parts.
Standing alongside Christian Zaugg, conseiller municipal, Ville de Genève
and May Bakhtiar of the Association Suisse de Falun Gong, John Suarez of the
Cuban Democratic Directorate cited Jose Marti's call to speak out against
injustice "to witness a crime in silence is to commit it."
According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, it received shocking, detailed
information on Wednesday from a Chinese investigative journalist documenting a
concentration camp set up in Shenyang city, Liaoning province, expressly for
Falun Gong practitioners. The news comes on the heels of the Department of
State's 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released Wednesday; the
report documents continued, systematic abuses of the Falun Gong in China.
It is the first time news of the secret camp', existence was disclosed to
outsiders. The camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong adherents at any given
time, and nobody has yet to come out from it alive. According to the source, it
contains a crematorium, and an unusually large number of doctors work there
reflecting the camp's practice of killing prisoners for their organs, which are
then sold for profit.
Suarez stated, "I don't have much confidence in the Human Rights Commission
when gross human rights abusers like China, Cuba, and Sudan are on the
Commission. It is an outrage that a regime that is engaging in behavior
reminiscent of the Nazi death camps is on the Commission, but sadly I am not
surprised. We, human rights activists need to work together to denounce these
atrocities and to hold the violators accountable. Martin Luther King Jr. once
said 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This Human Rights
Commission proves the truth of that statement. The worse violators from around
the world gather here regardless of ideology to watch each others back and
attempt to cover up their misdeeds."
Reported by the Cuban Democratic Directorate
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