(Clearwisdom.net) The Human Rights Torch Relay was initiated in Greece on August 9, 2007, and has since been relayed through many European countries. It has drawn worldwide attention. The writer recently interviewed one of the members of the North American Group of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG), Canadian Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj is working on legislation to prevent the illegal organ harvesting trade in China.

Canadian Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj said that, like many other people of conscience, he works in his capacity as a Member of Parliament to stop the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) horrific crime of harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners: "I've begun working on draft legislation that would hopefully act as a template internationally, once it gets passed. I didn't say 'should it get passed,' since I'm optimistic that it will get passed. This will prevent this sort of transaction of organs harvested from unwilling participants ... It's pretty comprehensive legislation that I'm working on and, hopefully when our Parliament comes back in session, I'll be able to table this legislation."

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj pointed out that it is quite clear that the CCP absolutely did not keep its promise to fix its human rights record. He believes that there are many human rights abuses in China under communist rule, and one of most horrific of those is the issue of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj said that they (the CCP) may create a modern version of a village in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, but the world is not fooled. There is a tremendous amount of evidence that has come out of China [pointing to human rights abuses]. No totalitarian regime is able to keep the lid on all information. "If Chinese authorities believe that they can suppress the truth on various issues from coming out, they're sorely mistaken."

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj said that no one can be unmoved when they read the report by David Matas and David Kilgour investigating allegations of the CCP's harvesting organs of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners in China. What is happening in China echoes back to the Nazi regime. Any reasonable government would want to clarify the situation when facing such serious allegations, and it would want Mr. Matas and Mr. Kilgour to travel to China to show them that they are terribly wrong in their conclusions. But in fact, that is not the case. "If they're preventing that, what is the logical conclusion? It tends to reinforce the findings of the reports."

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj made it clear that the ideology of communism has been completely discredited. Internationally, it is a failed ideology of the 20th century. The greatest human cost in millions of lives occurred during a very bloody 20th century as a result of this ideology, when the largest number of people was unnecessarily killed in China under Mao. The second largest number of people killed was under Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the third was under the ideology of totalitarianism, which wasn't communism but fascism. Both of those ideologies have been discredited. "I can't imagine that large amount [of organ-harvesting] would have happened without the authorities at the top."

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj would love to see the human rights torch that symbolizes human dignity arrive in Beijing at the same time as the Olympic torch.