Talking Taiwan Ep 170 | David Kilgour Author and Human Rights Advocate: Why 2022 is the China Genocide Olympics
For nearly 20 years, he has been outspoken about the human rights abuses and organ trafficking in China. When he and David Matas were asked in 2006 to investigate allegations that the organs of Falun Gong practitioners were being harvested, the disturbing truth was revealed. Following the investigation, Kilgour and Matas co-wrote, Bloody Harvest-The Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs.
Mr. Kilgour is a former Member of Canada’s Parliament, having served in the House of Commons for nearly 27 years, Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa from 1997-2002, and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific from 2002-2003. Prior to his political career he was a prosecutor.
In this interview Mr. Kilgour reflected on his career in politics and as a prosecutor, and shared his thoughts on Taiwan.
This episode of Talking Taiwan has been sponsored by the Taiwan Elite Alliance 優社
which was established in 2000 to promote Taiwanese and Taiwanese American arts and literature, and to protect and enhance the human rights, freedom and democracy of the people in Taiwan.
Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:
- Why he’s calling the 2022 Winter Olympic Games the Genocide Games
- The protest held in Ottawa of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
- How he became aware of persecution of the Falun Gong and the harvesting of their organs for involuntary transplants
- The International Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong approached David Kilgour and David Matas about looking into the allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners
- The book that he wrote with David Matas, Bloody Harvest
- Ethan Gutmann who also wrote a book about organ harvesting in China
- The update on organ harvesting done by David Kilgour, David Matas and Ethan Gutmann
- The China Tribunal in London chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice
- The Uyghur Tribunal
- How there are 9-10 countries that have banned organ tourism
- Mr. Kilgour’s efforts to lobby the Canadian Parliament to enact legislation against organ trafficking
- Accounts from doctors who performed surgeries for involuntary organ transplants
- How Uyghurs have been persecuted in China
- The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China
- How Mr. Kilgour is a voluntary advisor to two Uyghur organizations
- Mr. Kilgour’s recollection of his first visit to China
- His work to get goods produced by slave labor banned internationally
- How the U.S. has strengthened laws on importing goods produced by slave labor
- Volkswagen’s plants in Xinjiang with parts being made by forced labor in China
- The diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
- Why the International Olympic Committee would award the Olympics to Beijing a second time
- Taiwan’s early response to COVID-19
- The last time Mr. Kilgour visited China on a trade mission under Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
- The Chinese surgeon who removed the cornea of thousands of Falun Gong
- Who is profiting from the organ harvesting and transplant business in China
- Comparing the 2022 Olympics in Beijing to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
- What the average person can do about the human rights abuses in China
- What Mr. Kilgour enjoyed about his political career
- Where his sense of social justice and activism came from
- Mr. Kilgour’s position as State Secretary of Asia Pacific
- Taiwan has laws banning organ trafficking
- Ryszard Paszkowski, a Soviet-trained spy that Mr. Kilgour wrote a book about
- Mr. Kilgour’s past visits to Taiwan
- The trucker protests and Freedom Convoy in Ottawa
- The Taiwanese politicians that he’s met
- His work with the Ottawa Mission
- How the National People’s Congress of China has 91 billionaires
- Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya’s comments about the Uyghurs
- The hate email that Mr. Kilgour has received
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