Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tiananmen Square in China Evacuated After Fire; Western media outlets make mistaken references to an event in 2001

By Epoch Times | October 28, 2013

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A fire broke out on Tiananmen Square on Monday, prompting an evacuation and closure of the tourist attraction–and Chinese people were saying that it was a “self-immolation incident.”
The sensitive area is often under heavy guard.
Xinhua, a state-run media outlet, said via Twitter that a motor vehicle “went into the crowd.” It later reported that five people died, and 38 others, including police officers and tourists, were injured.
The jeep burst into fire at about 12:05 p.m. after crashing into a guardrail of Jinshui Bridge, across the moat of the Forbidden City.
The five dead include the three people in the jeep, in addition to a female tourist from the Philippines, and a male tourist from Guangdong Province.
The injured include three tourists from the Philippines and a male tourist from Japan.
Reports on Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like social media service, indicated that people believed that there was a self-immolation (that someone or more than one person set themselves on fire). Many of the photos posted online were deleted, as is often the case in the heavily censored country, but many were preserved on Twitter.
“Craziest thing ever. Just walked inside TianAnMen square and a car explodes outside the square,” said Grace Ng, who is based in New York but is currently in Beijing, via Twitter. 
The fire was put out after about an hour, and traffic returned to normal soon thereafter.
The incident was also the cause for some Western media outlets to make mistakenreferences to an event in 2001, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. On Jan. 23 of 2001, five people appeared to stage a self-immolation on Tiananmen Square, and the Communist Party’s propaganda outlets quickly claimed them to be practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that is persecuted in China.
“Over the past decade, credible sources and analysis have demonstrated the alleged self-immolation event on January 23, 2001 was staged by the Chinese regime as a horrific propaganda ploy to turn public opinion against Falun Gong,” the Falun Dafa Information Center said in a press release. This gave the authorities “a free hand to intensify the repression and torture of Falun Gong practitioners,” it said.
It’s often difficult to get the full story of situations such as these in China because media outlets are restricted in what they can report.

天安门爆炸 曝自焚世纪伪案真相

封锁消息VS 对12年前自焚伪案即时铺天宣传 前后迥异

【大纪元2013年10月30日讯】(大纪元记者林怡香港报导)被视为象征中共权力中心的北京天安门金水桥,星期一发生一起酿成5死38伤的汽车冲撞人群严重事故,中共当局随即封锁现场和严控传媒及网络消息。事故令人对比2001年1月23日,同样在天安门广场上发生的所谓“法轮功自焚”案,当时中共当局迅速灭火,官方喉舌迅速公开在全球范围内大张旗鼓的播放有关现场录像,并透过媒体将这个世纪大伪案广为流传,与今次撞车爆炸事件形成鲜明对比,当年中共江泽民集团为强行在全国范围内镇压法轮功,炮制所谓法轮功天安门自焚世纪伪案的真相再次曝光。
天安门自焚事件真相——《伪火》
中共中央政治局星期二宣布,三中全会将于下月9 至 12日,在北京召开。三中全会召开前夕,一辆载有三人的吉普车撞向天安门广场金水桥,此起严重的流血事件迅速引起国际关注,但中共官方迅速封锁现场,用围板围挡,又阻止外媒记者采访,6名香港记者一度被扣查,两名法新社记者甚至被要求删除现场照片。
当局并勒令大陆传媒低调,甚至不准擅自报道事件,更严格监控网民的相关言论,严防事件失控。作为北京市委、市政府“网上舆论主阵地”的千龙网,周一夜间发布伤亡数字时的标题是“北京迅速处置一起吉普车冲撞天安门金水桥事件”,反映官方有意淡化事件为一起普通车祸。
事件发生至今,中共外交部仍未回应是否涉及恐怖袭击,也不证实死者中是否有新疆人。
三新疆人疑自杀袭击
不过昨日,有中共江派背景的媒体却详细报导吉普车上三人的资料,称肇事车辆来自新疆,牌号为“新A45559”,之前曾使用三个不同新疆车牌。汽车中装了很多汽油,途中还展示了旗帜。又称警方掌握车内其中二名死者的身分均为新疆维吾尔族人,分别是43岁的玉苏普•吾买尔尼亚孜,来自新疆鄯善县鲁克沁镇;25岁的玉苏普•艾合普提来自新疆皮山县皮山农场。
这些消息称,此二人关系尚不明,但均有上访历史,曾经多次受到有关部门的“批评教育”,属于“屡教不改”。三人均对生活感到绝望,所以用撞车方式表达最后的愤怒,无同伙一起作案。还透露他们事前曾用心策划撞车,曾多次驾车到现场视察,寻找最佳的撞车时间及路径。
路透社则引述中央政府消息人士指,事件疑似有预谋的自杀式袭击,涉及新疆人和宗教问题。网民质疑事件涉及抗议行为,肇事者是要在中共十八届三中全会前吸引海内外舆论关注。

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对比2001年天安门自焚伪案
今次车撞天安门事件,令人对比十多年前江泽民集团精心策划的所谓“法轮功自焚”世纪伪案,并使该案再次受到关注。
2001年1月23日(除夕当天)下午2点41分,北京天安门广场发生震惊中外的所谓“自焚”,中共处理手法和今次车撞事件完全不同。一向对此类事件讳莫如深的中共官方新华社和中央电视台,当时第一时间在全世界范围内铺天盖地的火速报导,宣称参与“自焚”的5人和2名“自焚”未遂者为法轮功学员。
当时这场由中共炮制来构陷法轮功学员的自焚伪案,事发后,迅速被中共媒体在几乎所有电视、电台的黄金时段及报刊的重要位置上重点报导。
但令人不解的是,这种突发事件,央视镜头竟然拍到各种角度的特写;而一向不带着灭火器巡逻的警察,竟可在几分钟内从两辆警车拿出20多个灭火器和灭火毯。反观今次撞车爆炸,却没有这种效率,从网上画面看到该辆吉普车爆炸后猛烈燃烧,还没警员扑上前灭火。当年“自焚”伪案官方喉舌铺天盖地的宣传,亦与今次的网络删贴噤声形成鲜明对比。
此外,事件发生的地点是中共政权象征地,时间也处于中共三中全会召开前夕,加上薄熙来案刚刚二审结案,习近平正磨刀霍霍向周永康等江泽民派系势力开刀,政治气氛极其紧张,事件背后是否酝酿政治动机,耐人寻味。
周永康在位时就经常通过大打新疆动乱的维稳牌,迫使胡、温当局妥协;在薄熙来案开庭前,就发生了光大股灾事件,《大纪元》独家报导透露事件背后是江泽民集团搅局习、李当局。

自焚真相纪录片国际影展获奖
(天安门 自焚事件真相–《伪 火》 )


自焚真相纪录片国际影展获奖
当年中共自编自导所谓“天安门自焚”伪案来煽动民众对法轮功的仇恨,更以此作为镇压法轮功的藉口,掀起了一场文革后最大规模的政治迫害运动。这宗世纪伪案真相其后不断曝光,在2002年1月,北美民间中文电视台“新唐人”制作了纪录片《伪火》(False Fire),以怵目惊心的画面和精辟严谨的分析,揭示了“自焚”案真相,证实该案是江氏集团为栽赃法轮功而炮制的一起伪案。此纪录片广为流传,并在2003年11月8日荣获第51届哥伦布国际电影电视节荣誉奖。
联合国教科文组织进行权威性技术鉴定后,也公开宣布天安门“自焚”是中共自编自导的一场世纪伪案。

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Spanish Transplant Chief Recommends Punishing Transplant Tourists

Dr. Matesanz, in the interview with NTD Television, said that the matter of organ harvesting from Falun Gong had been “perfectly proved,” and that it was time for the Chinese authorities to become transparent about their organ system.

By Epoch Times | October 29, 2013

Dr. Rafael Matesanz, director of the National Transplant Organization in Spain (Nathalie Paco/Epoch Times)
 Dr. Rafael Matesanz, director of the National Transplant Organization in Spain (Nathalie Paco/Epoch Times)
A top transplant official in Spain has said that countries around the world should strengthen measures to deter their citizens from traveling abroad to receive illicit organ transplants, especially from countries like China, which harvest the organs from executed prisoners and, according to researchers, prisoners of conscience.
Dr. Rafael Matesanz, the director of the National Transplant Organization in Spain, explained in an interview with New Tang Dynasty Television, partner media to Epoch Times, that Spanish law is unique in punishing people who go outside the country to buy an organ under questionable circumstances.
“Any person who goes abroad and receives a transplant which we consider illegal, this action is also illegal when he comes back to Spain,” Dr. Matesanz said. “We don’t want to punish the patient, but we really want to prevent the possibility that this patient will go abroad, pay for a liver, and come back to Spain.”
He added that if major countries developed such legislation, phenomenon like organ trafficking would be largely eliminated.

‘Like Drugs’

“Organ trafficking is like drugs. There are people who are selling the organs, because there are others who are buying. The main problem is not in Asia or Latin America. The main problem is in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan — it’s these countries whose people are looking for organs, and then go abroad.”
Dr. Matesanz’s governmental agency, the National Transplant Organization, has publicly censured at least one individual who encouraged Spanish citizens to travel to China for organs, in an interview with the media.
“The problem with some rich developed countries is that transplant tourism of their citizens abroad is something like an ‘escape valve’ for their organ shortage and many surgeons and policy makers ‘understand’ people who go abroad to buy an organ,” Matesanz said in an interview published on the website of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, a medical advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.
“There is general agreement among surgeons to ‘protect’ their patients,” Dr. Matesanz said in the interview with NTD Television. “I don’t think it’s really a very good thing that in order to protect the patient you are unprotecting some other patient, or people, who are selling the liver or kidney.”

Doctors’ Reservations

It is difficult to know definitely whether transplant organizations and medical groups around the world are reluctant to enact these policies. The Transplant Society, an international body, did not immediately respond to an enquiry by Epoch Times about their general stance on the matter.
The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand said earlier this year, in response to an email enquiry, that: “It is the view of the Society that the decision to impose sanctions against individuals receiving human organs that were obtained without consent is a decision for individual Governments to make rather than individualorganisations.”
A member of parliament in the state of New South Wales in Australia had recently proposed a law that would operate in a similar manner to Spain’s, in seeking to criminalize the reception of illicit organs.
Dr. Torsten Trey, the Executive Director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, suggested that the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand could have been more assertive in the ethics of the matter. “Yes, laws are in the hands of governments, but governments ask representatives from the professions for advice, and for transplant laws they ask medical doctors.”

Need for Pressure

Dr. Trey said that failing to check such practices would fail to put the Chinese regime under pressure for its widespread practice of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners, and also Falun Gong practitioners, a persecuted spiritual practice.
David Kilgour and David Matas, Canadian researchers that prepared a report on the topic, say that organs from Falun Gong practitioners, who were killed through having their organs harvested, constituted the bulk of organ transplants in China from 2001 onwards.
Dr. Matesanz, in the interview with NTD Television, said that the matter of organ harvesting from Falun Gong had been “perfectly proved,” and that it was time for the Chinese authorities to become transparent about their organ system.
“One of the main standards is to know the origin of every organ which is transplanted. Is it a living donor? In order to gain credibility on an international level, China should provide all this information, which is now common practice for most countries in the international community.”
Lixin Yang and Lidia Loukinykh of New Tang Dynasty Television contributed reporting from Madrid, Spain.
Correction: A Spanish citizen was censured by the country’s transplant authorities for speaking to a newspaper, not a television station, about traveling to China to receive organs.

制止中共活摘器官 美维州医学协会支持国会281决议案

对于为什么会发起这一决议案,Belandres医生在接受大纪元采访中说,“(中共活摘器官)这是不道德的医学执业行为,(违反了)基本的医学伦理。” “我认为这是医学上的大屠杀,他们(中共)必须停止(这一罪行)!唯一阻止他们的方式是向他们发出良心的呼唤!”“这需要在中国很快发生改变。”“必须停止。这很重要!”

美国维吉尼亚州医学协会(the Medical Society of Virginia , MSV)于10月25日-27日年会期间正式讨论13-207号决议案。图为会议现场。(董韵/大纪元)
【大纪元2013年10月28日讯】(大纪元记者董韵、林南报导)美国维吉尼亚州医学协会(the Medical Society of Virginia , MSV)于10月25-27日年会期间正式讨论一份“制止中共活摘器官”的 13-207号决议案,随后在其法律、非法行医以及规章制度常设委员会上获得通过。这一决议案旨在支持美国国会通过281号决议案。
这是美国首个州专业医学协会正式讨论制止中共活摘法轮功学员器官决议案 。该议案在本次年会后将发送给下属的委员会委员和医学协会的全体成员,同时发送给美国医学会(American Medical Association,AMA),广而告之。
该决议的内容包括:要求制止中共对法轮功学员和其他良心犯的强摘器官行为;要求美国医学会呼吁美国国务院对中国的器官移植系统进行全面透明的调查;要求美国国务院向美国公民发布器官移植旅行警报;要求美国禁止那些参与非法强摘人体器官者入境,如已在美国境内要对其提出法律起诉等。
13-207决议案提出,维吉尼亚医学协会(MSV)应支持美国国会281决议案,并感谢维吉尼亚州国会议员杰拉尔德‧康诺利(Gerald E. Connolly),国会议员兰迪‧福布斯(Randy J. Forbes),吉姆‧莫兰(James P. Moran),富兰克‧沃尔夫(Frank R. Wolf),罗伯特.赫特(Robert Hurt)共同签署281号决议案。
2013年6月27日,美国两党国会议员在众议院共同发起“281号决议案”,要求中共立即停止针对法轮功学员和其他良心犯的强摘器官行为。这是美国国会首次针对“阻中共活摘器官”为主题的决议案。
维吉尼亚州医学协会由9,000多名专业医生,护士及医学相关专业人士组成。美国医学会创建于1847年,是世界三大医学会之一,现有会员30多万名,拥有11种医学期刊杂志,在全球医学领域享有很高的声誉和地位。
发起人:制止中共医学屠杀 这是这个星球上从未有过的罪恶
图: 13-207议案的发起人Manuel M. Belandres是维吉尼亚州医学协会成员,资深创伤外科及急救手术医生。(林南/大纪元)
13-207议案的发起人Manuel M. Belandres是维吉尼亚州医学协会成员,资深创伤外科及急救手术医生。他是美国社区急救基金会(The American Foundation For Emergency Community)创始人,并担任该基金会主席多年。
对于为什么会发起这一决议案,Belandres医生在接受大纪元采访中说,“(中共活摘器官)这是不道德的医学执业行为,(违反了)基本的医学伦理。” “我认为这是医学上的大屠杀,他们(中共)必须停止(这一罪行)!唯一阻止他们的方式是向他们发出良心的呼唤!”“这需要在中国很快发生改变。”“必须停止。这很重要!”
对于中共活摘信仰真善忍的法轮功学员的器官,他说,“这是绝对完全错误的!这是一种新的邪恶方式!”“正如加拿大的两位资深律师David Kilgour 和David Matas 所描述的,这是这个星球上从未有过的罪恶!”
Belandres说,需要让整个医学界知道(中共这一罪行)。他表示,活摘器官是中共批准和认可的。“如果中共不停止,外界需要告诉他们停止(继续犯罪)!”
MSV华人医生:相信中共活摘法轮功学员器官的事实存在

MSV协会成员李旭东医生说,他会让更多的美国医生同仁知道中共活摘器官的罪行,让人们共同制止这个前所未有的罪恶。(林南/大纪元)
MSV协会成员李旭东医生,从2006年起开始关注中共活摘法轮功学员器官。他说,从医学角度来讲,做一个器官移植手术,需要从很多供体中找出可匹配的位点,进行匹配,否则授体会有排斥反应。在美国,一个肾脏的等待时间是6个月至三年。而在中国,器官移植手术可在一至四周的时间内找到供体,这是不正常的。尤其是中国的器官匹配系统并不健全,无法与美国等西方国家成熟的匹配系统相比,出现这么短的器官等待时间是不可思议的。所以,只有一种解释,就是杀一个人,将其器官提供给等待移植的病人。
李旭东医生说,在中国大陆,金钱至上,人们被中共洗脑,很多医生也不讲医德,加上国内“消灭法轮功”的政策,他相信中共活摘法轮功学员器官的事实存在。而对于一般的外国医学工作者来说,很难理解在中国竟会存在这种罪恶。
李旭东说,他会让更多的美国医生同仁知道中共活摘器官的罪行,让人们共同制止这个前所未有的罪恶。
李旭东是维吉尼亚大学医学院助理教授,骨科住院医生。
“要求美国起诉参与非法强摘器官人员”
维吉尼亚医学协会的决议案提出,这是“终结中共系统性、动用国家机器批准认可的从良心犯身上,包括众多的因信仰被关押的众多法轮功学员、其它宗教和少数族裔身上强摘器官的历史性一步。”
决议案“呼吁美国政府公开谴责发生在中国的器官移植滥用”,并要求“美国禁止那些参与了非法人体组织和器官移植的个人进入美国,这些人一旦进入美国,应该予以起诉。”
“无辜的美国人正在变成(中共强摘器官的)帮凶”
该决议案告知美国医学会:“因为美国病患还在继续前往中国进行移植手术,因为美国医学界还在继续和中国合作,培训中国医生,以及因为美国制药公司正继续向中国医院提供移植相关药物,无辜的美国人正在变成(中共强摘器官)的帮凶。”
“一些美国承包商在国外介入这样的运作。”决议案说,“这种器官贩卖违反美国的价值观,新的法例将赋予当局权力来终结无良承包商的这种行为。”
决议案还提出呼吁美国医生加入医生反对强制摘取器官组织(DAFOH)的努力。
“中共有按需强摘的活体器官库”
加拿大人权律师麦塔斯(David Matas)和前亚太司司长乔高(David Kilgour)在2006年对法轮功学员被强摘器官的指控进行基于大量详实的证据上的调查;他们的报告作出结论说,指控是真实的,数万法轮功学员可能已经因被强摘器官而死亡。
该决议案说,1999年后,中国器官移植手术数量遽增,这和(中共)对法轮功发起镇压的时间吻合;中国器官移植手术的增加,看起来不是来自死刑犯的增加或是器官自愿捐献数量的增加。事实上,人权团体和法律专家相信,中国的死刑犯数量在最近几年有所下降。
决议案还说,中共没有对额外的器官来源进行充分的说明;中国医院登广告宣传进行肾移植和肝脏移植的等待时间为二至四星期,并且有记录的进行心脏移植的手术在提前三周通知的情况下进行;由于器官在体外存活的时间非常有限,如此短暂的等待时间是对(中共)存在大型可按需强摘活体器官库的最佳解释。

美国维吉尼亚州医学协会(the Medical Society of Virginia , MSV)于10月25日-27日年会期间正式推出13-207号决议案,该决议案要求制止中共对法轮功学员和其他良心犯的强摘器官行为,要求美国医学会(American Medical Association,AMA)呼吁美国国务院对中国的器官移植系统进行全面透明的调查;要求美国国务院向美国公民发布器官移植旅行警报;要求美国禁止那些参与非法强摘人体器官者入境,如已在美国境内要对其提出法律起诉。 这是美国首个专业医学协会推出制止中共活摘器官的决议案。该议案同时发送给美国医学会(American Medical Association)。图为MSV年会开会地点。(文忠/大纪元)
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