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About sixty Falun Gong practitioners conducted a 48-hour hunger strike and sit-in at Auckland's Aotea Square from last Sunday in an effort to inform the nation of the chilling discovery of a sick and brutal Concentration Camp in China.
It has been revealed by two inside sources that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, located in Shenyang City, North-Eastern China, is currently holding 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs for profit. The organs are often extricated from live practitioners, as that elicits more money than organs from a dead person; their bodies are then incinerated in a purpose-built crematorium.
The Concentration Camp is underneath what used to be a hospital, and employs an "unusually large number of doctors" where Falun Gong practitioners have been detained, tortured, butchered for their organs, killed and cremated since 2001.
Two separate sources of information revealed the camp's existence; one a former employee of the hospital the Death Camp originally was, whose family member was one of the doctors involved in the harvesting of organs for 2 years. The other is a reputed Chinese journalist. Both were interviewed extensively by The Epoch Times.
The scene at Aotea Square on Sunday portrayed tranquil meditation music floating in the background as the horrors of butchered people were displayed in stark contrast; conveying the struggle between good and evil.
Yet the protesters at Aotea Square would be forgiven for thinking they were alone in their urgency to impart this desperate message to the people of New Zealand, and the world.
Shocked by the news of a Death Camp existing in the world today, many people demanded, "Why didn't I know about this?" A New Zealand doctor was aghast that it wasn't headline news in all media throughout the country.
The question then is: Why isn't the biggest persecution in the history of mankind plastered on the front page of newspapers, headlining the news, and galvanising governments around the world to take action?
Looking at the photos of the atrocities inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners in China over the past seven years, one is grimly reminded of Auschwitz: a place one shudders at the mere thought of. Yet now we have the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a 57-year killing spree, unchecked.
The death toll over this time sits at 80 million of their own men, women and children and the means are becoming more dark and sinister as trade and profit threaten exposure.
Kerry Chen, coordinator of the NZ Quit CCP Service Centre, believes most westerners still don't know the truth inside China because, "The CCP is founded on lies and oppression.
The CCP is one voice because the media is state-owned, and the Chinese people don't have exposure to the outside world. That's why we need other media to report on what is happening inside China."
The CCP launched its genocide campaign against Falun Gong in 1999 because a communist regime does not allow the practice of other beliefs. "Falun Gong is a belief. We believe in truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. Seventy million Chinese people were practicing in China when the crackdown began because Falun Gong is so good and so effective," Chen said.
But, she said, overseas media have largely remained silent about this brutal persecution.
When asked why the media would ignore such a huge human rights issue, yet print Hollywood break-ups at the drop of a hat, she explained that it could be a combination of things. With China's increasing trade and business with the Western world there are a lot of "under the table dealings."
As China's state terrorism extends it's arm overseas – reports of several recent incidences of violent attacks come to light. The attacks, reported to be the work of CCP agents, include the savage beating of an Epoch Times staff member in Atlanta, USA last month.
And the Chinese people are scared of coming forward, Chen said, "There are too many painful memories of CCP violence and killing inside the heads and hearts of the Chinese people."
An interview with an Israeli citizen during the protest confirmed Chen's fears of the inaction surrounding the grim and chilling discovery of the Concentration Camp. "When we had the holocaust, people knew about it," Hadas Cohen explained, "I have a German friend who just last week told me that he saw news articles that they were doing stuff in Auschwitz and no-one cared."
Cohen postulated that if an event is not in our immediate surroundings, or doesn't directly affect us, then we don't care, "People say this can't happen in NZ, but it can happen anywhere."
It is up to countries like New Zealand, who care about human rights, to investigate and expose these atrocities, yet even here, China's long arm is extended. On July 8, 1992, a poster was taken down from the Auckland International Airport, after direct pressure from the Chinese Consulate. The poster read, ""The world needs Truthfulness. Compassion, Tolerance" and "Falun Dafa is Good".
What are the protesters at Aotea Square hoping to achieve over the 48-hours? Chen replies, "We are raising awareness. We expect to collect well over 1,000 signatures on a petition urging the NZ government to step in and investigate these reports of a Death Camp in China. We are pushing all national medias to report on this Concentration Camp. "We need to spread this news, all people in the world need to know. This is shocking news for the whole world, not just China."
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