Cambridge University Debates China’s Human Rights Abuse (video)
Anna Chan:
A free speech society in England has invited two special guests to discuss the current human rights abuse in China. Canadian David Matas and David Kilgour present their investigation on organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Our London correspondent has the report.
The Cambridge Union Society was funded in 1815. It is the debating society of the Cambridge University. The Union is world famous for inviting high profile speakers and opening controversial debates. Canadian David Matas and David Kilgour open a forum on human rights abuse in China.
MP David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas wrote ‘Bloody Harvest”. It is a revised report into allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
[David Kilgour, Edmonton MP]:
“The Chinese medical association has about three weeks ago agreed with the world medical association, that they won’t allow any more organs to be transplanted to foreigners. The problem is, as you know im sure, is that the army is outside this practice. They are not governed by this commitments by the chinese medical association, so they may just carry on doing it and they are doing a lot of it already. So time will tell wether there is something to it, or if it is just Olympic Games rhetoric. ”
Matas and Kilgour hope the British leadership who is holding the 2012 Olympic Games will urge the Chinese regime to stand by the true spirit of the Olympic flame.
[David Matas, Human Rights Lawyer]:
“The award of the Olympic Games has become an excuse for worsening the human rights violations in order to try to paint a good picture to the rest of the world. They don’t want any protests, they don’t want any trouble, so they are keeping away from the Olympic Games people who are on a discriminatory bases, so people who they think might possibly cause trouble. And Falun Gong are of course banned completely from the olympic games .”
NTD, Cambridge, UK
