Further to the earlier reference to the alleged killing of Falun Gong members in China, the issue seemed serious enough for me to send off a letter to NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. Here is is -
Mr Peters,
I am a New Zealander currently living in the US.
I am writing about a Reuters report that appeared this week concerning a Canadian investigation into alleged killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Government in order to harvest human organs for transplant. Press articles carrying this story can be found here (Sydney Morning Herald) and here (yahoo.com). The full report of the investigation by lawyer David Matas and former Canadian cabinet minister David Kilgour can be found here (pdf file).
The Chinese Government has issued an official denial of the allegations in the report, while a subsequent response by Matas and Kilgour has been published on a Falun Gong website.
Could you please tell me whether our Government will take any action to determine if these allegations are accurate and what Government response would be forthcoming in the event that the allegations are found to be true.
I am not connected in any way with Falun Gong or with the authors of the report mentioned above.
Regards,
We’ll see what he has to say.