It’s well known that Communist China has the world’s worst human rights record, however, a new evil form killing live people for their organs may sound inconceivable to many people. The newly released documentary Davids and Goliath has won the first place in the Viewster Online Film Festival, and the best documentary award at the 9th Hamilton Film Festival.
The documentary is based on the investigation on forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, by two Canadian Nobel Peace Prize nominees — human rights lawyer David Matas and former MP David Kilgour. The two Davids have collected evidence and published their book Bloody Harvest in 2009. They estimated that between 2000 and 2005, 41,500 Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs.
Falun Gong is a peaceful meditation practice for mind and body. It was made public in 1992 in China and quickly attracted 100 million people for its great effect on health improvement and moral teachings. The then Communist leader Jiang launched a widespread persecution in 1999 and claimed to “eradicate Falun Gong in three months,” and “defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically.” Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested arbitrarily, sentenced to labour camps without trial, beaten to death and had forced organ harvesting.
The film is both informative and shocking. Such atrocity is believed to still be going on in China. Dec. 10 was International Human Rights Day and the theme is ‘Every day is Human Rights Day.’ So I hope more people can watch this movie, uphold human rights and dignity and condemn such carnage.
Davids and Goliath can be watched for free at www.viewster.com.
Joy Wang
Penticton
