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The Voice of a Reformer, by Gene Crocker, Ph.D. "The removal of kidneys and corneas from executed prisoners, who are sometimes still alive is unconscionable." Harry Wu in conversation with Simon Wiesenthal, reported in The Laogai Report. Sept. 1996. It is to my shame as a human being that the Holocaust is continuing. Let me expand that statement. It is to our shame that the abomination of the Holocaust continues. The Peoples Republic of China call their Holocaust ~ Laogai (Reform through Work). I've seen or heard estimates of 6 to 10 million men, women and children, currently in over 1100 of these death/work/mind control camps. Dr. Wu estimates that over 50 million people have been imprisoned in the Laogai since 1949. The PRC in 1984 offically admitted to 20 million. Of the 50 million, Harry Wu estimates that half have died or will die in the camps. The story of the Laogai is the story of Dr. Harry Wu, the man that President Clinton would not see and did not invite to stay in the Lincoln bedroom. In 1960, after Communist Russia invaded and conquered Hungary, a young chinese student was sent to the Laogai camps. Wu's crime? He thought Russia was wrong and said so. For the next 19 years, he made chemicals, mined coal, built roads, cleared land, and farmed for 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. He saw his fellow prisoners die from executions, beatings, disease, starvation, suicide and medical experimentation. Harry Wu survived beatings, torture and starvation in 12 different camps and was finally released in 1979. In 1985, he was invited to do research as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. After experiencing freedom, he became determined to tell the world about the most extensive forced labor, manufacturing, thought control and death camp system human beings have ever suffered - the Laogai. This he did. And as he informed the people of the world about the work/death camps, his reputation for accuracy, honesty and integrity grew. He has received honors and awards (including 2 honorary Ph.D.s) from institutions all over the world. When he was arrested in 1995, after legally entering Communist China, an international storm arose that forced the communists to release him. In 1997, when Dr. Wu fought against MFN trade status for Communist China, he affirmed his reputation for straight talk. On one talk show, he said "Why do you believe these people (the chinese communist leaders)? They are liars. They will tell you any thing to get what they want!" In 1991, Harry Wu became a citizen of the United States. Today, he continues his work for human rights at the Laogai Research Foundation in Washington D.C.. The Foundation has a traveling exhibit of Laogai photographs that has toured the capitals of the world. Many of the pictures were taken by Dr. Wu with crude, hand-built cameras and smuggled out of the concentration camps. I urge you to see it. It is an indictment of what is happening today in the Laogai of Communist China. Dr. Harry Wu, if Abraham Lincoln were alive today, you would have been invited to spend the night.. After the slime and corruption in the Lincoln Bedroom has been cleaned out, so that decent people can sleep, we will see what the American people can do about an invitation.
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