While the UN and its camp-followers, including certain New Zealand politicians, spin groundless conspiracy theories about Israel, the very real and appalling human rights abuses committed by China are passed over without comment. At the UN, China’s lickspittles outnumber countries willing to highlight China’s brutality, two-to-one. NZ politicians tweet false conspiracy theories about Israel but stay completely mum about China.
Not everyone is so selective about noticing ghastly human rights abuses, nor so in thrall to China.
David Matas, a Canadian lawyer and human rights defender, has become the first to be awarded the Global Humanitarian Leader of the Year award by the human rights group Canadians in Support of Refugees in Dire Need (CSRDN)[…]
“We want to recognize David’s tremendous contributions to saving lives and justice by speaking out against the horrific crimes of forced organ harvesting in China. Killing people for their organs is a most cruel and barbaric practice and must be stopped,” CSRDN co-chair Dr. Aliya Khan said in a press release on Jan. 6.
China’s human rights crimes beggar belief.
“The government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and ‘people’s courts,’ since 1999 have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers, corneas and hearts, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries,” the report wrote.
Today, fifteen years after the report was released, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued and even accelerated such acts, Matas says.
In many ways, this should not be surprising. Remember that this is still exactly the same regime whose enforcers practised cannibalism as a “revolutionary act” during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. The blood of at least 70 million of its own people is on the Chinese Communist Party’s hands. Now comes the industrial-scale murder of dissidents and cannibalising of their organs. Just as the Nazis turned mass murder into an industrial process, China has turned it into a lucrative industry.
He said that although the CCP still uses Falun Gong practitioners for organ harvesting on a mass scale, the population of the group has “depleted” over time and the CCP has been looking for additional sources, such as the Uyghur population.
The organ harvesting industry in China has developed more sophisticated technologies and supply chains for distributing the extracted organs[… an]organ harvested today in Xinjiang can be shipped around in China.”
If that’s the sort of appalling brutality we should expect from a communist regime, there’s no excuse for “human rights”-obsessed Western politicians for turning a blind eye.
The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, a bipartisan bill that expanded on the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, has been used to address human rights violations around the world. Sanctioned offenders can be banned from entering the United States and their assets can be frozen[…]
Canada also enacted its version of the Magnitsky Act in 2017, but it has not been used to address any human rights issues in China[…]
The European Union passed the “Global Magnitsky Human Rights Sanctions Regime” on Dec. 7, 2020. Australia and the United Kingdom have also introduced similar Magnitsky-styled bill or legislation.
The Trump administration has sanctioned one Chinese government entity and four current or former government officials who are reported to have committed serious rights abuses against ethnic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
New Zealand is one of 29 nations whom Falun Gong practitioners recently supplied with an updated list of perpetrators who’ve been involved in the persecution of Falun Gong. It’s not clear what action, if any, the New Zealand government has taken.
Matas said the use of this legislation is an encouragement for victimized communities and can show that the Canadian government cares about what is happening to them.
“Identifying perpetrators is a step towards bringing them to justice. Once named, they cannot be unnamed. Naming under the Magnitsky legislation is a signal that justice awaits the perpetrators, whether it comes sooner or later,” he said.
“Naming disincentives the crime. Others will think twice to avoid their also being named. Not naming has the opposite effect, giving perpetrators a free ride, telling them that mass criminality has no adverse consequences.”
The Epoch Times
Even if they do get named, they can always rely on getting a good “human rights” lawyer to plead their case. Isn’t that right, Simon Bikindi?
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