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Statement by The Epoch Times On the Events at the White House

This morning at the welcoming ceremony for Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao on the south lawn of the White House, Dr. Wenyi Wang stood up in the press corps and shouted slogans.

Dr. Wang attended this event on Epoch Times press credentials. However, her actions this morning were her own. In protesting in this manner, she did not act on behalf of The Epoch Times . Moreover, she had not consulted any of her Epoch Times colleagues beforehand about her staging this protest. If The Epoch Times had known of her intention to use this event to protest, we would have seen that her press credentials were withdrawn.

The Epoch Times apologizes to President Bush and the White House for Dr. Wang's actions.

However, while The Epoch Times does not approve of the methods used by Dr. Wang, we think the world does need to understand what might have moved a respected medical professional such as Dr. Wang to take such unconventional actions.

The Epoch Times has reported that, based on the statements of doctors performing organ transplants in China, in the next eleven days thousands of Falun Gong practitioners will be slaughtered in China in a particularly horrifying manner: through having their organs harvested while they are still living. The only hope for saving the lives of these practitioners lies in bringing sufficient pressure to bear on the Chinese regime.

The Epoch Times broke the story on March 9 of how about 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners had been held in a civil defense facility next door to a hospital complex in the Sujiatun District of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in northeastern China. According to sources, thousands of these practitioners had been killed through having their organs harvested while they were alive.

Our original sources for this story were two brave individuals who had fled China: a Chinese journalist who had worked for a Japanese TV station covering northeastern China, and the former wife of a surgeon who had performed organ harvesting at Sujiatun.

Subsequent investigations , made by calling doctors and staff at hospitals performing organ transplants revealed that what had happened at Sujiatun was not an aberration. Rather, it was the tip of the iceberg...

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This is about ORGAN HARVESTING!

$62,000 for a kidney transplant

$170,000 for a heart transplant

$30,000 for a cornea transplant

Not surprisingly, China's transplant hospitals attract not only rich Chinese officials, but also overseas Chinese and other foreigners who can afford to buy a quick organ in China rather than wait for a donor overseas.

"It may take only one week to find out the suitable donor," CITNAC's website states, "the maximum time being one month because the kidney transplant needs to find a HLA tissue match."

Since the survival time for a kidney for transplantation is only about 24 to 48 hours, medical professionals believe that the existence of a huge, readily accessible organ bank is the only explanation for the promise of such a short waiting time for a kidney transplant.

Ms. Wenyi Wang, M.D., who graduated from the Mount Sinai Medical Center pathology program, is startled by such figures. She says that, in recent years, organ transplants in China have become incredibly popular. That the supply is able to meet the demand "implies that organs may come from different sources." "These different sources include what we were familiar with in the past, which is extracting organs from executed criminals," she said. "Most Western countries do not use this method, but in China this method is widely used." "Another source revealed recently is from Falun Gong practitioners," she said. "This additional source could explain why, in recent years, there have been such a high number of organ transplants in China."

The same conclusion was reached by WOIPFG. Posing as prospective organ buyers, WOIPFG investigators called hospitals in Shenyang City and were shocked at how soon they were told they could get organs.

The median wait time for a matched kidney in the United States is a full two years, though many have to wait seven years or longer. In China, "the answer is probably about two days," says WOIPFG researcher Kevin Yang. "That's impossible if they don't have anyone there to kill."

This is barbaric. Absolutely sick.

It's like a horror movie.

I wonder how Hu's buddies and enablers, like Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates, feel.

The Associated Press writes:

Chinese leaders place high importance on protocol and symbolism, and Bush moved promptly to deal with the protest on the lawn. Once they reached the Oval Office, Bush apologized to his guest.

"He just said this was unfortunate and I'm sorry it happened," said Dennis Wilder, acting senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff.

Hu was gracious in accepting Bush's apology, Wilder said.

..."It's hugely embarrassing," said Derek Mitchell, a former Asia adviser at the Pentagon and now an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

China "must know that this Bush administration is good at controlling crowds for themselves, and the fact that they couldn't control this is going to play to their worst fears and suspicions about the United States, into mistrust about American intentions toward China."

How could the Bush Administration have controlled this?

To suggest that it could have been prevented is utterly ridiculous.

It's not "hugely embarrassing" for the U.S. -- not at all.

Why would we care that "this is going to play to their worst fears and suspicions about the United States, into mistrust about American intentions toward China"?

HEY!

CHINA IS COMMITTING ATROCITIES!

It's "hugely embarrassing" to murder people to harvest their organs, not for a protester to disrupt a photo-op.

Anyone claiming otherwise is an immoral, cold-blooded fiend.