The latest version of the Kilgour-Matas report on organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China , Bloody Harvest, will be published in book form later this year.
Canadian former Secretary of State, David Kilgour, one of the key investigators into these gross human rights violations, said Bloody Harvest would focus on the "terrible practice" of involuntary removal of organs from prisoners of conscience in China.
Speaking to the press while in Vienna, Kilgour said that the best time for release would be just before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He expects to finish the text by the end of next month, after which the book will go through editing and revision before publishing date. Kilgour expects the book to be available before Christmas.
Kilgour felt that after doing so much research and conducting so many interviews with people involved in every aspect of the illegal organ trade, publishing his compiled results as a book seemed like a logical consequence. He did not elaborate on what new evidence of organ harvesting might be included in the new publication.
Kilgour, a former secretary of State for the Asia/Pacific, has a long history as a champion of human rights. In 2006, he and Canadian Human Rights attorney David Matas undertook an independent investigation of the Chinese Communist Party's alleged organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Kilgour and Matas, after a two-month investigation, concluded that without a doubt tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners had been killed on demand and their organs sold for transplant, all under the auspices of the CCP. Many of the transplant patients came from overseas, they said in the report.
David Kilgour gives two examples for the effect that the report has had on western society. Israel had been in the habit of sending patients for organ transplantations to China, including transport and organs, since federal health care paid for the treatment. "As soon as the report appeared, they stopped it immediately", said Kilgour. Israel will no longer pay for its citizens to receive organ transplants in China.
He also mentioned that many Australians had traveled to China for organ transplants due to the quick delivery of desired organs, "That has now collapsed, after the report appeared." The media in Australia were very helpful with the circulation of the report. Australians were immediately aware that the organs that were so readily available for transplant were not coming from condemned criminals but from innocent people arrested for their faith and beliefs.
On the 31st January of this year, David Kilgour and David Matas published a revised and extended report "Bloody Harvest". In this report, the authors reached the conclusion that in the span of six years more than 40,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been murdered for their organs.
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