Olympic boycott call over organ claims – Sydney Morning Herald

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

A high-level European official says there’s clear evidence China is harvesting the organs of dissidents and has urged Australia to boycott the Beijing Olympics unless China ends what amounts to genocide.

EU parliament vice president Edward McMillan-Scott and former Canadian minister David Kilgour, who are in Australia, claim China is killing thousands of members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

The government appeared reluctant to acknowledge the senior politicians on their visit to Canberra on Wednesday. Falun Gong claims Foreign Minister Alexander Downer refused to meet the two men. [Full Text]

See also Chinese dissident doubts organ harvest claim by the Australian:

HARRY Wu, one of the most respected Chinese dissident leaders, has cast crucial doubt on Falun Gong claims that body parts have been extracted from 6000 followers of the sect at a secret concentration camp in northeast China.

In response, Falun Gong has branded Mr Wu, who spent 19 years in Chinese labour camps, a “butcher” and a “senior-level Chinese Communist spy”.

Also Christian Science Monitor’s China faces suspicions about organ harvesting or go to an investigation report (downloadable in multiple languages) by David Matas and David Kilgour

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