Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Livers From China

I read a great article about Wikipedia yesterday and it got me interested in the editing process of the hugely popular site. Today I clicked on the recent changes link and discovered a shocking article about Falun Gong and live organ harvesting. The disturbing testimony of a few individuals is flatly dismissed as fantasy by the Chinese government. A couple of respected and qualified Westerners published an investigative report that lent some credibility to the rumor. In an interesting twist, another Western journalist wrote a piece that refuted the work of David Kilgour and David Matas. It was later pointed out that the key information source for the rebuttal was an organization that is associated with the Chinese government.

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