Longtime Presbyterian and former MP David Kilgour stepped up his battle against China’s human rights abuses in a new co-authored book: Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China. It was released in November.
The book is based on interviews with Falun Gong practitioners who escaped forced labour camps and detention centres in their native China, and is the culmination of years of research and advocacy.
“They told us of working in appalling conditions for up to 16 hours daily with no pay, little food, being cramped together on the floor for sleeping, and being tortured,” Kilgour said at a November press conference in Ottawa. “The [Chinese] government denies that organs for transplants are being sourced from prisoners who are Falun Gong practitioners. Yet, it accepts that organs for transplants are being sourced from prisoners. The only debate we have with the government is which group of prisoners is the source of organs.”
Bloody Harvest was co-written with David Matas, a human rights lawyer. – C.P.
