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HOUSE RESOLUTION 1113

 
2     WHEREAS, Falun Gong is a peaceful and nonviolent form of
3 personal belief with millions of adherents in China and
4 elsewhere; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Falun Gong has been persecuted for over 6 years by
6 the Chinese Communist Party, as documented by the U.S.
7 Department of State, the U.S. Commission on International
8 Religious Freedom, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,
9 and many other governmental and third party organizations; and
 
10     WHEREAS, This persecution of the Falun Gong has involved
11 the widespread use of torture; and
 
12     WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist authority is persecuting
13 Falun Gong practitioners with this policy: "Defame their
14 reputation, bankrupt them financially, destroy them
15 physically"; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Over 2,800 Falun Gong practitioners have died from
17 documented abuse, and some of their bodies were missing
18 internal organs; and
 
19     WHEREAS, In Sujiatun, a suburb of the Chinese city of
20 Shenyang, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are held in a
21 prison camp contrary to the laws of China and in violation of
22 their human rights; and
 
23     WHEREAS, The Sujiatun prison camp is adjacent to a complex
24 that contains 3 hospitals; and
 
25     WHEREAS, In the prison at Sujiatun the organs of Falun Gong
26 adherents are harvested while they are alive, and their bodies
27 are immediately cremated; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, The harvested organs are then used by the
2 hospitals associated with the prison for transplants, with the
3 customers for these transplants often being individuals from
4 the United States; and
 
5     WHEREAS, A witness, who worked at one of these hospitals
6 and whose ex-husband, a surgeon, helped perform the organ
7 harvesting, estimates that 4,000 Falun Gong practitioners have
8 died in the past 5 years through this organ harvesting; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Chinese President Hu Jintao will make an official
10 visit to the United States in April 2006; therefore, be it
 
11     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
12 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
13 we call upon the Chinese Communist Party to stop persecuting
14 Falun Gong practitioners; and be it further
 
15     RESOLVED, That we urge the United States government to
16 investigate organ transplants in China and take all reasonable
17 steps to bring an end to the revolting practice of harvesting
18 organs from living prisoners for transplants; and be it further
 
19     RESOLVED, That we recommend to President Bush that he
20 should discuss with Hu Jintao the harvesting of organs from
21 living Falun Gong practitioners when President Bush meets the
22 head of the Chinese Communist Party in April; and be it further
 
23     RESOLVED, That we call upon the United States government to
24 prohibit any doctors who performed transplants using organs
25 harvested from living prisoners, such as those at Sujiatun
26 prison, from gaining entry into the United States; and be it
27 further
 
28     RESOLVED, That we call upon the United Nations, the
29 International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty

 

 

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1 International, or other human rights organizations to each
2 begin an investigation into these atrocities and provide a copy
3 of its investigative report to the United States Congress and
4 to the General Assembly; and be it further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to
6 the Falun Gong practitioners of Illinois and that a copy of
7 this resolution be delivered to the President of the United
8 States of America, George W. Bush, the United Nations, the
9 International Committee of the Red Cross, and Amnesty
10 International.