[Hon David Kilgour, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee]:
“Killing one human being so that another one can have an organ from that person is just wrong and in the 21st century we call it a ‘new crime against humanity’ which it certainly is.”
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The Honourable David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific Region arrived in Australia last week.
In Melbourne on Thursday, Mr. Kilgour is speaking at a pre-release private screening of the film “Free China: The Courage to Believe”.
This film, in which Mr. Kilgour is interviewed, tells the story of two Falun Gong practitioners who survive the horrors of China’s labor camps, including torture and human organ trafficking.
He is calling on Governments, lawyers, doctors and the “man in the street” to take action against the illegal organ harvesting that is happening in China.
Comparing it to the holocaust Mr. Kilgour regards it as a parallel situation of systematic destruction of human beings.
[Hon David Kilgour, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee]:
“Killing one human being so that another one can have an organ from that person is just wrong and in the 21st century we call it a ‘new crime against humanity’ which it certainly is.”
“Killing one human being so that another one can have an organ from that person is just wrong and in the 21st century we call it a ‘new crime against humanity’ which it certainly is.”
With the focus on this illegal organ trafficking, which amounts to murder, positive changes are starting to happen in some countries.
[Hon David Kilgour, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee]:
“Israel is the most dramatic where they were actually paying for people to go to China. When Dr. Lavi discovered that this was happening he brought in a new bill – all party support. And they stopped it completely now and they put some of the organ brokers in jail. And I gather nobody goes to China from Israel. So it would be nice if nobody was going from Australia to China for organs either, and it wouldn’t take very much will among the parliamentarians in this country to achieve that.”
“Israel is the most dramatic where they were actually paying for people to go to China. When Dr. Lavi discovered that this was happening he brought in a new bill – all party support. And they stopped it completely now and they put some of the organ brokers in jail. And I gather nobody goes to China from Israel. So it would be nice if nobody was going from Australia to China for organs either, and it wouldn’t take very much will among the parliamentarians in this country to achieve that.”
David Shoebridge, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly has produced a comprehensive consultation paper proposing new legislation to make it a criminal act equivalent to manslaughter to buy trafficked organs.
[Hon David Kilgour, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee]:
“I’m hoping the federal or the state governments pass laws which will stop anybody from going to China, given the circumstances in which these organs are being pillaged from people, often prisoners of conscience such as Falun Gong practitioners who have been convicted of no crime at all.”
“I’m hoping the federal or the state governments pass laws which will stop anybody from going to China, given the circumstances in which these organs are being pillaged from people, often prisoners of conscience such as Falun Gong practitioners who have been convicted of no crime at all.”
Mr. Kilgour is co-author of “Bloody Harvest” with human rights lawyer David Matas, which documents their extensive research into the state-sponsored killing of more than 45,000 healthy Falun Gong practitioners for the sale of their body parts.
While in Australia Mr. Kilgour will be speaking in Parliament House Canberra, to expose illegal organ trafficking, and advise on preventative measures.
NTD News Melbourne Australia
