Talk:Kilgour–Matas report

This article still has NPOV issues
The most glaring example of this is the use of the graph for organ wait times from the Kilgour Mattas report. The article is using the subject of the article as a reference for the subject of the subject... Sorry if that sounds convoluted but that's basically what's happening here. I'll be honest, I've got WP:DUE issues with having an entire article devoted to what is effectively a fringe document. I would advise against giving it a "good article" standing in its current condition and I think it's a tall hill to climb for this article to ever achieve it. Simonm223 (talk) 00:25, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Tens of thousands
I noticed Ohconfucius remove the estimate that tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were imprisoned because it's not cited in Ian Johnson's article. But you were the one who changed the sentence around in the first place.

Here's what it used to read:


 * The suppression that followed was accompanied by what Amnesty International called a "massive propaganda campaign," and the detention and imprisonment of tens of thousands of Falun Gong adherents; coercive “reeducation” of Falun Gong adherents sometimes resulted in deaths.

The 'tens of thousands' figure is best supported by the U.S. State Department reference that was provided, which states "some foreign observers estimated that Falun Gong adherents constituted at least half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in RTL camps."'' Other reliable sources are more unambiguous -- for instance, Freedom House states simply that hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong have been imprisoned since 1999.

But you then changed it to this, falsely ascribing the figure to Ian Johnson:


 * Pullitzer-winning journalist Ian Johnson noted in late 2000 that the detention and imprisonment of tens of thousands of Falun Gong adherents; coercive reeducation of Falun Gong adherents sometimes resulted in deaths.

And then minutes later you edited again on the basis that Ian Johnson's article doesn't mention tens of thousands of detentions:


 * Western journalists noted in late 2000 that Falun Gong practitioners in areas where the Falun Dafa was popular were targeted in systemic repression. Under orders from Beijing, practitioners were detained, imprisoned and "re-educated"; 77 deaths were recorded by Amnesty International.

Maybe you missed the State Department reference. Anyway, I added some more references to eliminate any remaining confusion. Also suggest keeping death estimates more general - Amnesty reported on 77 deaths way back in 2000, but that doesn't tell us anything about more recent trends (e.g. Amnesty also reported on over 100 Falun Gong deaths in 2008 calendar year alone; the NYT reported 2,000 deaths as of 2009). The Blue Canoe  04:13, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Reference not accessible from website and not reliable information
The ref

Home > Topics > Outlawing Falun Gong Cult "Exposing the Lies of 'Falun Gong' Cult". http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/ppflg/t263446.htm

is not listed under

Home > Topics http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/

In this case it seems that the CCP is not keen to publicize its own information. This statement is incorrect "However, the cult remains rampant in the U.S. and a handful of other countries." as on http://en.falundafa.org/falun-dafa-global-contacts.html there are over 70 countries listed. So the information on this page referenced is unreliable and inaccessible. I suggest this reference is deleted. There are other references accessible from embassy websites, which directly attempt to refute both versions of this report. References to those pages should be included rather than inaccessible and unreliable references. Aaabbb11 (talk) 20:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Lead section should be brief
from Writing better articles

"Good articles start with a brief lead section introducing the topic."

The current version fails to adhere to this policy. Aaabbb11 (talk) 20:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * For a topic as controversial as this, the lead section being all-rounded and balanced is much more important than being brief. -CharlieOQ (talk) 07:19, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Lum info is inaccurate and reference is dead, so not balanced or brief. Aaabbb11 (talk) 12:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Direct evidence
Appendix 14. Transcript of Telephone Investigations http://organharvestinvestigation.net/report0701/report20070131.htm#_Toc158023107 has transcripts of 15 conversations where hospitals or other institutions in China admitted using organs from Falun Gong practitioners. The is direct evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. So to state the report is "based on circumstantial evidence" is incorrect. Aaabbb11 (talk) 20:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)




 * I thought the speculations conjured by Matas-Kilgour report lost air almost immediately when no direct evidence could be proffered? And that Amnesty International, Harry Wu, US Department of State and other came out unconvinced? The evidence you cited came from an organization with a singular agenda: To promote Falungong at the expense of CCP. I might as well quote the State Spokes Person of PRC and yet my sources will have same credibility as yours. Can you provide a third-party sources with NPOV? If not, an isolated report conducted by two politicians based largely on the hearsay of one or two witnesses along with few dubious transcripts can only be deemed circumstantial in this case. Clergyboy (talk) 21:15, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Its common for transplant professionals and others to refer to the Kilgour–Matas report. On the US National Library of Medicine site there are 4 articles that reference or mention it.
 * On annual Congressional-Executive Commission on China reports, its mentioned or referenced - 2006 report 3 times, 2007 report twice, 2009 report twice, and 2012 report once.


 * organharvest.net evidence is reliable. Aaabbb11 (talk) 11:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I recall that after the release of the report, a Hong Kong media interviewed the doctors from the alleged hospitals and found that the telephone conversations were falsified. -WadeMacD (talk) 04:42, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't think you will be able to find a source for that. Aaabbb11 (talk) 12:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

"Its common for transplant professionals and others to refer to the Kilgour–Matas report. " That's because there is no other source that can be referenced! The Kilgour-Matas turns out to be the ONLY report that makes those speculations, without any independent sources supporting its claims. This in turn proves the shakiness of those claims.

When we talk about direct evidence (smoking gun), we mean something that can be independently verified, something physical and objective whose presence definitively proves the claims one were to make. The telephone transcripts claimed by the report itself counts at most circumstantial evidence, if not just claims, since its veracity cannot be independently corroborated. One thing that baffles me is that, TEN YEARS after the release of the report, still NOT A SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE was found to prove any claims made, which tells you a lot about how credible the report actually was. -CharlieOQ (talk) 07:14, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * So far three books have been published about organ harvesting in China. Maybe you would like to read them. Aaabbb11 (talk) 12:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

wu hongda
It's not clear to me why this should be deleted? I agree we shouldn't make a big thing of it (I heard the LGF changed their attitude??) but mentioning the contention here seems to make sense. Unless i'm missing something? Happy  monsoon  day   23:47, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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This is one of the most absurd report I have ever seen
The authors qualified their findings by noting the difficulties in verifying the alleged crimes, such as: independent bodies were not allowed to investigate conditions in China, eyewitness evidence was difficult to obtain, official information about organ transplantation was often withheld, and Kilgour and Matas themselves were denied visas to go to China to investigate.

So... They actually did not go to China at all?Raintwoto (talk) 22:46, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * It appeared that you have not read the report at all. There were many phone calls between investigators and hospitals in 2006 when this terrible incident was just disclosed. At that time many Chinese hospitals and doctors claimed in the phone conversations that they used good quality organs from healthy FG practitioners. On many hospital websites there were all kinds of organ advertisement indicating the crime. Later those web pages were deleted, but the investigators saved copies. Plus, there are many other evidences, including witnesses in China, for example Cao Dong in Beijing. For foreign investigators, even if they could get in China, do you think Jiang Zemin and his 610 office will just allow them to investigate his inhumane crime in China? Marvin 2009 (talk) 02:17, 4 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I've been following this on and off for a few years. I just heard that a new report and a U.S. House Resolution  have recently come out. Seems pretty much an established fact that Falun Gong are being harvested for their organs. TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 04:30, 4 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I just don't understand, how to produce this kind of report without going to China at all....Raintwoto (talk) 20:16, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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