Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcement of his China trip came within days of the release of a book by two prominent Canadian human rights defenders that concludes that over 40,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China have been killed so their organs could be harvested and sold.
Former MP and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour, and Order of Canada human rights lawyer David Matas, released "Bloody Harvest" following two drafts of their same-titled report.
“Unravel the repression against the Falun Gong and all other victim groups will benefit,” the book notes. It reports that “[China] persecutes the Falun Gong more than any other group.... The documented yearly arbitrary killings and disappearances of Falun Gong exceed by far the totals for any other victim group.”
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