by James Burke
The Epoch Times
With the second in change of
the Chinese communist regime, Premier Wen Jiabao, to arrive in Australia in early
April for an expected uranium sales deal, the federal government has been called
upon by to help investigate the allegations of a secret concentration camp in
China’s northeast.
Addressing a press conference and a peaceful protest
outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney on Tuesday March 14 the President of the
NSW Falun Dafa association, Mr John Della, called upon Australian government and
international organisations to investigate the findings of the Chinese journalist
who recently exposed the concentration camp in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang
city and its killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs.
"The
camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong adherents at any given time, and "nobody
has yet to come out" of 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," said Mr Della.
"Word of concentration camps for
Falun Gong practitioners has circulated for several years."
Mr Della
also told the press conference that a news report by Agence France Presse in October
of 2000 stated two concentration camps were built for Falun Gong detainees in
northwest and northeast of China and were capable of each holding up to 50,000
persons.
Ms Jennifer Zheng, writer and labour camp survivor, told the press
conference that when she was detained in a Beijing camp in 2000 and 2002 that;
"the police there openly told us that "the only purpose for you to be
sent here is to get you "transformed" or "reform" to give
up your practice". The police threatened us repeatedly "if you refuse
to give up, we will send you to a huge concentration camp, in a far area in north,
north-west China and you will never ever have a chance to come back again."
Ms Zheng said her and other Falun Gong practitioners were repeatedly threatened
this way. "When I heard the news, the appalling news of the Sujiatun Concentration
Camp I was not at all surprised because, years ago I was myself threatened by
the police about being sent to a concentration camp like this and I feel sad.
"Many people arguing about whether this kind of situation was true,
instead of standing up immediately to call for an independent investigation into
such shocking allegations," she stated.
"The first thing we should
do upon learning this kind of news is to ask about or to call for independent
investigations instead of sitting there doubting whether it is true or not."
A number of speakers addressed the press conference and the estimated two
hundred people peacefully protesting. Among the speakers was Professor Li Bao
Qing formerly from the Chinese Academy of Science who himself along with his wife,
Associate Professor Liu Jinghang, who had both experienced torture in labour camps
in China before fleeing to Australia in 2003.
Also speaking was Yuan Hong,
who arrived in came to Australia in 1997, before then he was a doctor in Shenyang
city at the number one hospital that was affiliated to the Chinese Medicine University.
He told the press details of the trade in organs from executed prisoners. (To
read Mr Yuan’s experiences see Overseas
Chinese Can Replace Kidneys in China for $12,300 )
Posting date: 18/Mar/2006
Original article date: 15/Mar/2006
Category: Media Report
