Event Oct 28: Organ Harvesting & Mass Murder

The Slaughter, a new book by veteran China analyst Ethan Gutmann, investigates the Chinese state’s secret program to eliminate dissidents—Falun Gong, Tibetans, and Uyghurs—while profiting from the sale of their organs. Based on interviews with top-ranking police officials and doctors who have killed prisoners on the operating table, Gutmann has produced an insider’s account that critics have characterized as “gripping, horrifying, infuriating—and utterly compelling.”

 
Panel Discussion and Q&A:

An expert panel will discuss the latest findings on the live organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. Why would the Chinese leadership risk perpetuating such a barbaric perversion of its medical system? What is the scale of the atrocity? How does harvesting connect with the current political struggles in the upper echelons of China? Come to the forum to grapple with these issues and to participate in a discussion on what actions Canadians and Canada can take. Can basic medical ethics be restored—not only in China, but also throughout an increasingly compromised international medical system?
 
Mr. Ethan Gutmann will reveal key findings from his new book, The Slaughter.
 
David Kilgour will propose some Canadian and international legal, political, and medical initiatives to forced organ harvesting in China.

Dr. Charl Els will speak about the ethics and human rights issues behind the Chinese practice of organ harvesting and its relationship in the international medical system.
 
A reception and book signing by Ethan Gutmann will take place following the panel discussion.

Guest Speakers:
Ethan Gutmann is an award-winning China analyst and human rights investigator. A contributor to top media publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia and Investor’s Business Daily, he has provided briefings to the U.S. Congress, the CIA, the EU, the U.N., and parliaments across the world. Formerly a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on CNN, PBS, CNBC, and BBC. He is the author of Losing the New China. See http://ethan-gutmann.com/
 
David Kigour is a former MP from southeast Edmonton and Secretary of State for Asia – Pacific (2002 -2003). He co-authored Bloody Harvest-the Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs with David Matas. Both were co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for their volunteer work to end forced organ harvesting in China. He has been invited to speak around the world on this issue. See http://david-kilgour.com/ and http://organharvestinvestigation.net/

Charl Els, MBChB, FCPsych, MMedPsych (cum laude), ABAM, MROCC, is a psychiatrist, addiction specialist, medical review officer and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta’s Department of Psychiatry and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre. Charl is a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and a consultant at the LifeMark Health Institute in Edmonton. Since 1999 he has regularly acted in the capacity of clinical service delivery, research, teaching, policy work, volunteering and has provided testimony before the Court of Queens Bench (for both the Crown and for defendants), the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta, Alberta Justice, the Canadian Medical Protective Association, as well as Human Rights Tribunals. He has authored journal publications and chapters in textbooks, and has presented his academic work in many countries in the last few years.