Thursday, May 4, 2006
To the editor:
The Chinese leader, Hu Jintao, received a well-deserved lesson in free expression at the White House when a woman burst out with impassionate cries for justice, "President Bush, stop him from killing! President Bush, stop them from persecuting Falun Gong!"
Dr. Wenyi Wang, a New York pathologist holding a Ph.D from University of Chicago and a mother of two, deserves a Kennedy's Profile in Courage award for her bravery. We learned that the barbaric organ harvesting atrocities in Chinese laogai camps had motivated her to action.
Her outcry couldn't have come at a better time. According to human rights organizations, witnesses and media reports, there are over 36 laogai camps in China that harvest and sell organs for profit. This is a disgustingly lucrative business. A kidney transplant nets $62,000 and a heart operation can bag $170,000. Over the past five years, Falun Gong practitioners alone have been killed in the thousands for their organs.
I applaud Congressman Dana Rohrbacher and 80 other lawmakers who sent a letter to President Bush, requesting an explanation from Mr. Hu and an immediate, third-party investigation of the death camps.
But more must be done. Let us join Dr. Wang and demand an abolishment of these 21st century Auschwitz camps.
Edward J. Morgan
Roslindale
Source http://www2.townonline.com/roslindale/opinion/view.bg?articleid=484906
Category: Opinion & Perspective