by David Matas and David Kilgour
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), a non-
governmental organization registered in Washington, D.C. with a branch in Ottawa,
Canada, by letter dated May 24, 2006 asked for our assistance in investigating
allegations that state institutions and employees of the government of People’s
Republic of China have been harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners,
killing the practitioners in the process. The request letter is attached as an appendix
to this report. Many of the friends of China, including us two, are concerned about
these allegations. In light of their seriousness, as well as our own commitment
respecting human dignity world wide, we accepted the request.
David Matas is an immigration, refugee and international human rights lawyer in private
practice in Winnipeg. He is actively involved in the promotion of respect for human
rights as an author, speaker and participant in several human rights non-governmental
organizations.
David Kilgour is a former member of Parliament and a former Secretary of State of the
Government of Canada for the Asia Pacific region. Before he became a
Parliamentarian, he was a Crown prosecutor. The biographies of both authors are
attached as appendices to this report.
We conducted our investigation independently from the CIPFG, the Falun Dafa
Association, any other organization, and any government. We sought to go to China
unsuccessfully, but would be willing to go even subsequently to pursue a second stage
of the investigation if access to witnesses and institutions can be obtained. We
interviewed a number of different people listed in an appendix to this report as well as
read extensively any information we could obtain relevant to our report. We were not
paid by anyone for this report but rather did this work as volunteers.
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