When
Wang Lijun made his break for the US consulate in Chengdu on the night
of February 6th, he was in a unique position to reveal a series of
damaging stories about his superior, Bo Xilai: Bo’s familial connection
to the suspected murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, siphoning
of Chongqing’s public funds, and shakedowns of local criminal and triad
elements. As former head of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, Wang
also knew that Bo, as Chongqing party secretary, had engaged in
surveillance of Politburo members, potentially implying that Bo and
other players aligned with Jiang Zemin’s faction—most prominently, Zhou
Yongkang, secretary of the powerful Political and Legislative Affairs
Committee (PLAC)—were thinking about seizing power. Faced with the
complexity of China’s leadership transition crisis, most Western editors
played up the
Sopranos aspect of the sordid tale, fixing on
the alleged Heywood murder, essentially the same interpretation being
relentlessly pushed by the Chinese Communist Party–controlled media, and
allowed an even more sinister story to slip by virtually unnoticed. On
March 23rd, China’s vice minister of health, Huang Jiefu, publicly
declared the country’s intention to end “organ donations” from executed
prisoners. Yet the euphemism didn’t conceal the reality, for on the
night of February 6th, Wang was in a unique position to reveal one more
story—specifically, how the party has been harvesting the organs of
their political enemies for years. (Read full article by clicking on the title.)
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