It won’t take a lot for Australia to help stop one of the worst crimes on the planet, said David Matas, an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg, Canada, who was attending a rally held by Falun Gong practitioners in front of Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Nov. 22.
Matas, along with late human rights activist David Kilgour, were jointly nominated for the 2010 Noble Peace Prize for their investigation of the Chinese regime’s persecution and forced organ harvesting of practitioners of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that includes meditation exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The traditional practice spread rapidly across China in the 1990s, with an official estimate of 70-100 million practitioners by 1999….