“Nobody has yet to come out,” government insider reveals
Australia (FDI) – The Falun Dafa Information Centre received shocking, detailed information on Wednesday 8 March 2006 from a Chinese Communist regime insider documenting a concentration camp set up in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, expressly for Falun Gong practitioners. The news comes on the heels of the US Department of State’s 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on Wednesday; the report documents continued systematic abuse of the Falun Gong in China.
Information about the camp was relayed via an audio recording from a government informant. It is the first time news of the secret camp’s existence has been disclosed to outsiders. The camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong adherents 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 and harvesting their organs, which are then sold for profit.
The source tried to convey the horror of what is happening in the concentration camp: “Why was a crematorium built, and why are so many doctors housed there? … The answer is something unimaginable. You must be clear that a cremator for bodies is different than a burner used for sanitation purposes.”
Located in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang City, the camp, dubbed the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, is surrounded by walls three metres high topped with electrified barbed wire. It is heavily fortified and said to be highly secret; locals know close to nothing about it. Those held inside are Falun Gong adherents from China’s three north-eastern provinces, as well as central China; many are said to have been transferred there from various labour camps. CCP authorities involved with the camp have “learned many things from North Korea,” according to the source.
“This is deeply, terribly disturbing, and confirms our worst fears: that CCP authorities remain intent on ‘eradicating’ Falun Gong, and in their desperation will go to any lengths,” stated FDI spokesperson Mr Erping Zhang. “We need to be clear that the persecution has not gone away – it has merely become darker and more hidden.”
The Chinese government source spoke at length about the unlawful “harvesting” of organs in the Sujiatun facility. “If Falun [Gong] practitioners are sent to Sujiatun,” he said, “they have no chance of coming out … The CCP won’t let a prisoner consume food forever. So what are they up to, then? … the Falun Dafa practitioners are killed for their organs, which are sent off to various medical facilities. Organ sales are now a highly profitable business in China.”
“They can’t find enough bodies through executions, and no bodies are more readily available for this business than those of the [Falun Dafa] practitioners,” he stated.
Warning signs have surfaced in recent months.
Last June CCP authorities reportedly held a “crisis meeting” in which China’s deputy minister of Public Security, Liu Jing, was assigned the job of “stamping out” Falun Gong “before the Olympic Games in 2008”, according to the Paris-based Intelligence Online. Several reports have stated that authorities wish to use the Olympics as a pretext to deepen their assault on the Falun Gong.
This past January Chinese officials similarly announced a “new campaign” that would supposedly “sabotage activities of cult organisations” as part of a “complex struggle against enemies,” according to a Reuters report. Past campaigns to “strike hard” have resulted in upwards of 10,000-plus executions in a single year, say human rights groups.
Word of concentration camps for Falun Gong practitioners has circulated for several years. A 1 October 2000 report by Agence France Presse told of two concentration camps having been recently built, both specifically for Falun Gong detainees. The camps were said to have been built in north-west and north-east China, and were capable of each holding up to 50,000 persons.
A 6 October 2000 report on Minghui.net stated that a concentration camp expressly for the Falun Gong had been built in the remote north-western province of Xinjiang. Chinese sources report seeing Falun Gong adherents shipped off on trains to the Xinjiang camp. Little to no information on the secretive camp has emerged. No one to date is known to have come back from the camp.
Mr Zhang stated, “International media and governments around the world must pay attention to this and take active measures to investigate the concentration camp and put a stop to this barbarity and madness. We are calling for all possible support from international organisations. There must be accountability in China. If this is the price people are paying for our silence, it is chillingly tragic.”
Background
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a practice consisting of meditation and exercises, with teachings that emphasise living by three principles: Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Originating in China, Falun Gong is now practised in over 70 countries. With Chinese government estimates of 100 million practising Falun Gong in China, in July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide, violent campaign to “eradicate” the practice. The Falun Dafa Information Centre has verified details of 2,840 deaths and over 44,000 cases of torture. Hundreds of thousands have been detained or sent to forced labour camps.
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