Studies / Reports: March 2006 Archives
The Epoch Times
March 31, 2006
Sujiatun is merely one of 36 concentration camps for Falun Gong in China
[Editors' Note: This report is a compilation of information provided by an individual who identifies himself as a veteran military doctor in Shenyang military zone in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. The Epoch Times has only added headings. The Epoch Times encourages more people to give us inside information about Sujiatun Concentration Camp or other similar camps imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners. The Epoch Times will be discreet and careful about your personal safety.]
I am a veteran military doctor in the logistics service in the army in Shenyang military zone. For safety's sake, I will not disclose my identity for now. The reports from outside China about Sujiatun Concentration Camp imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners are true, although some of the details are incorrect. The so-called underground Sujiatun Concentration Camp does exist. Organ harvesting is routine there. It is also a common practice to cremate dead or even living Falun Gong practitioners.
Ashes Given to Families Came from Animals or Other Bodies in the Crematorium
As many state regulations have stipulated, the top level of each provincial government has the authority to establish "recycling organizations" to process felons in the military zone under its jurisdiction. This practice is warranted by a legal document that the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Committee established as early as 1962. This practice has never stopped to this day. According to the regulations in the document, death-penalty prisoners and felons may be processed according to the development needs of the state or of socialism. During the Great Cultural Revolution, the most extreme way to process these prisoners was to use their bodies for food. The second-most extreme way was to use them as slave labor for engineering or production work.
After a 1984 amendment, it became legal to harvest organs from felons. The police and judicial departments perform organ harvesting on living prisoners before cremating their bodies. Sometimes, they will injure the prisoners in a show execution before they perform organ harvesting on the injured prisoners. They then cremate their bodies.
BBC News
March 24, 2006
Imports of illegally felled timber into China is destroying some of the world's forests, according to Forest Trends.
Western consumers also play a major role, the Washington based non-profit group says.
China is importing raw wood to turn it into cheap furnture, plywood and other processed products, 70% of which which it exports to rich country markets.
The report says this leads to depletion of the world's forests with devastating social and environmental consequences.
The Epoch Times (Australia)
March 13, 2006
News of organ harvesting at the Sujiatun concentration camp was announced at the March 11 Nine Commentaries seminar presented by the Australian Epoch Times. Following the presentations, members of the audience reacted to the shocking news. Some questioned the reliability of the report, and the discussion focused on the Sujiatun announcement. A member of the audience confirmed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed the crime of taking organs from living prisoners.
Yuan Hong said that he personally knew about the CCP taking organs from prisoners. Before coming to Australia, Yuan had worked in a Shenyang hospital. Shortly after he came to Australia, he read in a newspaper that a doctor from Tianjin Armed Police Hospital had revealed in the U.S. that the CCP was selling organs. Diplomats of the Chinese communist regime denied the accusations.
However, according to Yuan, "In China, it is known by many hospital staff members that the replacement organs used by regular hospitals basically all come from prisoners. Until we came abroad, we did not even know this was immoral and was an invasion of prisoners' human rights. In China, although there were no discussions among colleagues, everyone knew about it. Most pathetically, no one thought it was a problem.
By David Barboza | The New York Times
March 12, 2006
AFTER Ang Lee accepted his Oscar as best director for "Brokeback Mountain," he was hailed by fellow Chinese in Hong Kong and his native Taiwan. Here in mainland China, the government-controlled English-language daily newspaper went so far as to call him the "pride of Chinese people all over the world" and the "glory of Chinese cinematic talent."
Never mind that the fruit of that cinematic talent — a movie about gay cowboys in love — has not been and probably won't be approved for showing on the mainland. Or that Mr. Lee's Academy Award acceptance speech, though televised here, was censored by the authorities, who omitted references to gays and Taiwan.
Film is like most everything else in China: nothing comes easy. Only a few dozen foreign films a year are approved for showing here, although those that aren't are widely watched on pirated DVD's. American movies, legally or illegally obtained, are particularly popular. The official inclusion of four Hollywood blockbusters last year led to record box office figures in 2005, although the top-grossing movie was a government-financed Chinese film — watched but also ridiculed by the public.
Mr. Lee, the first filmmaker born in greater China to win the Oscar for best director, is in good company. Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li, two of China's best-known actresses, are also the pride of the nation. And this year, they will suffer a similar fate at home. Their Hollywood film, "Memoirs of a Geisha," was supposed to reach cinemas here on Feb. 9.
But the film was essentially banned late in January, apparently because of concerns that showing Chinese stars playing Japanese geisha could provoke public anger at a time when anti-Japanese sentiment in China is running high; just as official China views homosexuality as deviant, the Chinese view geisha as prostitutes, and for some, the film evoked memories of the Rape of Nanking. (The Chinese ban their own movies, too, usually for anti-government themes but sometimes for sexual ones. The most famous case involved the 2001 film "Lan Yu," which, like "Brokeback Mountain," featured a long-term gay affair using straight actors and was admired by Ang Lee.)
So the biggest year in film here was also one of the oddest: the Chinese public can't see (in the cinemas, at least) films featuring the most-talked-about Chinese actors and directors who went West to make films, but they are allowed to see "King Kong" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
By Chris Bowlby - Analysis, Radio 4 - BBC News
March 9, 2006
Look at China from a distance, and those huge new skyscrapers in places like Shanghai may dominate the view.
They symbolise rapid recent growth, glitzy cities and factories flooding the world with consumer goods.
Look beyond, however, and another China comes into focus - where hundreds of millions still live in poverty, and where a communist government struggles with the contradictions of running a capitalist economy.
Last week the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, warned the National People's congress in Beijing of "deep-seated conflicts" and promised to spend more to ease the urban-rural divide.
Resentment and assertiveness
Oxford political scientist Steve Tsang says China is a "brittle" place.
It looks strong from the outside but "the situation can disintegrate very quickly".
The communists hope continued rapid economic growth will permit their continued hold on to power.
But they are now caught between the resentment of those left behind by the boom and the assertiveness of a new middle class.
By Wang Zhen | The Epoch Times
March 5, 2006
In February 2006, the monthly withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations [the Communist Youth League (CYL) and the Communist Young Pioneers (CYP)], have reached a new high of 881,874, with the daily average of 31,495. These withdrawals were made on The Epoch Times' Tuidang (Quitting the CCP) Website. On February 12, the number of withdrawals hit a daily record high of over 46,000. So far, more than 8.5 million Chinese people have declared their withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organizations on the Tuidang Website. Since May of 2005, the average daily number of withdrawals has been more than 20,000.
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