David Kilgour

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David Kilgour PC (born February 18, 1941 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a human rights activist , author, former prosecutor and Canadian politician. Kilgour received national and international recognition for his interreligious dialogue , global commitment to human rights and for the research report prepared with David Matas, for which both were nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

family

David Kilgour has been married to Laura Scott since 1974 and they both have four children. His sister is Geills Turner , who is married to former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner . Kilgour and his sister are the great-nephew and great-niece of John McCrae , the soldier and poet who wrote In Flanders Fields , and also the great-nephew and great-niece of John Wentworth Russell, who painted the portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier that hangs in the House of Commons .

Career

Kilgour graduated from the University of Manitoba in economics in 1962 and from the University of Toronto Law School in 1966 . After serving as a district attorney in northern Alberta and a minister in the Canadian government, Kilgour completed his 27-year tenure in the Canadian House of Commons as an independent MP. By the time he retired, he was the longest-serving member of parliament and one of the few elected under both the Progressive Conservative Party and the Liberal Party banner .

Prosecutor

After graduating from law school, Kilgour trained with a law firm in Vancouver and then became assistant to the Vancouver District Attorney. After unsuccessfully seeking political office in 1968, Kilgour worked for the Federal Department of Justice in Ottawa and later became Crown Attorney for the Dauphin Judicial District in Manitoba . From 1972 to 1979 Kilgour served as chief investigator for the Attorney General and as a constitutional advisor to the Alberta government until he finally became a Member of Parliament in the lower house in the spring of 1979.

Member of Parliament

David Kilgour was a Canadian MP for almost 27 years. His first attempt to get into parliament as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, by standing for election in the 28th Canadian general election in the constituency "Vancouver Center" in 1968 , failed. The second attempt was not made until eleven years later, again as Tory , in the 31st Canadian general election in 1979, in which he ran for the constituency of Edmonton Strathcona , Alberta , and was elected. From May 1979 to November 1988 Kilgour represented the constituency of Edmonton Strathcona, but entered in 1988 through the reform of the constituency in the 34th Canadian general election for the constituency of Edmonton Southeast , Alberta, successfully.

In 1987, Kilgour was dismissed as Parliamentary Secretary of State by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney because he criticized him for his government morale and the treatment of Western Canadians . Three years later, Kilgour behaved again in his voting behavior against the Goods and Services Tax called tax and was expelled in October 1990 together with Pat Nowlan from Nova Scotia and Alex Kindy from Calgary from the National Party Committee of the Tories.

After the expulsion, Kilgour did not resign as a parliamentarian and remained independent for several months until he finally joined the Liberal Party. For this he ran from 1993 to 2000, also in the constituency of Edmonton Southeast, Alberta, successfully for re-election, and only moved to the constituency of Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont , Alberta, in 2004 in the 38th Canadian general election , where he was until his departure politics remained active in the 2006 elections. In April 2005 he resigned from the Liberal Party and remained independent until the end of his political career.

Political offices

After his first electoral victory in 1979, David Kilgour served in the Conservative Governments of Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney as Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Privy Council (1979), Minister for Foreign Relations (1984–1985), Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Developments (1985– 1986) and the Minister for Transport (1986–1987).

After joining the Liberal Party, he served first as deputy government spokesman and chairman of the main committee for the entirety of the lower house (1994–1997), later as state secretary for the regions of Latin America and Africa (1997–2002) and as state secretary for the region of Asia - Pacific (2002-2003). In the 38th House of Commons, Kilgour was chairman of the Canada- ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group , co-chair of the All-Party and Multi-Faith Committee on Religious and Cultural Harmony, and co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet and Canadian chairman of Parliamentarians for Global Action.

Human rights activist

As Secretary of State, Kilgour has been a constant contributor to all human rights violations around the world. From 1990 to 1994 he served as chairman of the Canadian branch of the International Committee for a Free Vietnam, which honored his work in December 1994 for the release of political prisoners in Vietnam.

During a visit to Zimbabwe in 2001, Kilgour spoke out critically against Mugabe's farmland policy, thereby generating increasing international pressure. Kilgour worked to prevent the atrocities of the 1990s in Rwanda from happening again, and in April 2004 he and the Canadian delegation attended the commemoration ceremony for the tenth anniversary of the genocide. In December 2004 he was part of the Ukrainian election observer delegation in the runoff elections at the federal level.

In April 2005 he came into the focus of the media when he - outraged by the sponsorship scandal - threatened to leave the Liberal Party. He said this problem made Canada look like a "northern banana republic". On April 12, 2005, Kilgour announced that he would continue as an independent MP. He also criticized Canada's inaction during the crisis in Darfur , Sudan , and resigned in response. He reiterated that he did not plan to return to the Conservatives and had no plans to stand for re-election.

Due to the unusual composition of the 38th House of Commons, David Kilgour was able to overthrow or support the government in May 2005 through his single vote. He used his influence as a supporter of the Genocide Intervention Network to press the Martin government into a peacekeeping mission in Darfur. The then Prime Minister Paul Martin eventually approved humanitarian aid but did not deploy a peacekeeping mission.

To this day, he is a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University ( Kingston ), was a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD) and was co-chair of the Canadian Friends of Democratic Iran. To date, he has organized an Iran pro-democracy demonstration, which was attended by around 90,000 people in France in 2009. David Kilgour was a past chairman of the Canadian International Council's Latin American and Caribbean Working Group in Ottawa , is director of the New York- based non-governmental organization Advancing Human Rights and director of the Ottawa Mission Foundation.

Interreligious Understanding

As a practicing Christian and a member of the Presbyterian Church, Kilgour has worked throughout his career on topics such as Interfaith Dialogue, Individual Freedom and Democratic Government, and promoted awareness and understanding between different belief systems.

In Parliament he held prayer groups, including while attending meetings and publications across the country, and spoke specifically on religious issues and politics. Often his subjects dealt with global religious and political persecution.

Kilgour is a member of the Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Ottawa, and acted as chairman of the parliamentary group for Soviet Jews to inform the Canadian public of their plight. He helped organize the 39th National Prayer Breakfast on Parliament Hill , which brought together many faiths to celebrate religious harmony.

With his religious beliefs and adherence to traditional marriage, Kilgour hit the news in 2003 when he abstained from the same-sex marriage law and was reprimanded by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien .

Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

In 2006, allegations emerged that large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners had been killed with the intention of supplying organs to China's transplant industry. Together with human rights lawyer David Matas , Kilgour published the Kilgour-Matas investigation report, in which u. a. stated that "the origins of 41,500 organ transplants for the six-year period from 2000 to 2005 are unclear," and both led to the conclusion that "there has been and continues to be increased involuntary organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners." In 2009 they published an updated version of the report as a book. Since completing their investigation and submitting their findings to the United Nations, both have traveled to over 50 Western and Asian countries to educate governments, human rights organizations, medical circles and the public about this state-sanctioned crime, which they themselves call the “new form of Evil on our planet ”. Both of them were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for their research and public relations work.

In 2012 “State Bodies: Transplant Abuse in China” was published, edited by David Matas and Dr. Torsten Trey, with essays by six medical specialists, the China analyst and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann , David Matas and an essay by David Kilgour as co-author. Ethan Gutmann interviewed over 100 witnesses and estimates that 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008. In the same year, Matas stated that there were still no explainable organ sources for the organ transplants that took place in China between 2000 and 2005.

On November 10, 2015, David Matas and David Kilgour pointed out in their speech at TEDxMünchen that nothing has changed in the crime of state-sanctioned organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, only some hospitals no longer continue to do so, so blatantly to advertise it. In addition, the Chinese government still fails to answer where the organs for the transplants come from.

On June 22nd, David Kilgour published together with David Matas and Ethan Gutmann the jointly prepared investigation report "Bloody Harvest / The Slaughter - An Update" . The 680-page report is a forensic analysis of over 2,300 Chinese documents and website information and comes to the conclusion that the real number of organ transplants in China is kept secret by the Chinese government (the report assumes 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants annually) ; the organs for the high number of organ transplants found come from killed innocent Uyghurs , Tibetans , domestic Christians, and mainly Falun Gong practitioners; and organ harvesting is a crime in China involving the Communist Party, state institutions, the health system, hospitals and transplant doctors.

items

  • Ending violence against women, Canadian Social Studies, 1992
  • Mounting carnage in Rwanda, Diplomat & International Canada, 1994
  • Religion in statecraft, Canadian Social Studies, 1998
  • The UN and the challenge of human security, McGill International Review, 2000
  • Organ Pillaging from Falun Gong in China , European Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee, Brussels, December 1, 2009
  • Ending Organ Pillaging, Trafficking in China , The Epoch Times, Feb.20, 2014

Lectures and hearings

Books

Awards

During his parliamentary career, David Kilgour received several awards including:

Documentation

David Kilgour participated in the following documentaries:

  • Red Reign: The Bloody Harvest of China's Prisoners (2013),
  • Free China - The Courage to Believe
  • Cannibalized - organs to order

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l "David Kilgours Biography" , david-kilgour.com, accessed on May 7, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Larry Zolf, "Kilgour or Darfour" ( Memento of 23 October 2005 at the Internet Archive ), CBC News, 12 July 2005 Retrieved on May 10, 2016
  3. ↑ Andrew Meldrum, "Mugabe hounds anti-racist," The Guardian (London), October 28, 2001, accessed May 10, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c "How Canada can help in Iran" , The National Post, July 2, 2009, accessed May 10, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c David Kilgour, David Matas, “Speaker at TEDxMünchen” ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 10, 2015, accessed May 21, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tedxmuenchen.de
  6. ^ "Talks on Religion" , david-kilgour.com, accessed on May 10, 2016
  7. ^ "Kilgour on 'Traditional Marriage'" , November 26, 2003, accessed on May 10, 2016 '
  8. ↑ a b David Kilgour, David Matas: "Bloody Harvest - Investigation Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China" (revised and expanded version November 2007) , accessed May 10, 2016
  9. ↑ David Kilgour, David Matas, "Bloody Harvest, The killing of Falun Gong for their organs," p. 232, seraphimeditions.com, accessed May 10, 2016
  10. ^ A b c Aldo Santin, "Crusader up for Nobel Prize, Lawyer lauded for investigating abuses in China" , Winnipeg Free Press. February 20, 2010, accessed May 10, 2016
  11. ↑ a b c David Matas, Dr. med. Torsten Trey "State Organs, Transplant Abuse in China" , 2012, seraphimeditions.com, p. 144, accessed on May 10, 2016
  12. ↑ Professor Dr. med. Gabriel Danovitch article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  13. ^ Professor Arthur Caplan article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  14. ↑ Dr. med. Jacob Lavee article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  15. ↑ Dr. med. Ghazali Ahmad article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  16. ↑ Dr. med. Torsten Trey article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  17. ↑ Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh Article , US National Library of Medicine, accessed March 25, 2016
  18. ↑ Rebeca Kuropatwa, "Matas New book Reveals transplant abuse" ( Memento of 24 September 2012 at the Internet Archive ), Jewish Tribune, September 19, 2012 Retrieved on May 10, 2016
  19. ↑ Mark Colvin, “Parliament to Hear Evidence of Transplant Abuse in China,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Nov. 27, 2012, accessed May 10, 2016
  20. ↑ Matthew Robertson, "Book Exposes Organized Killing for Organs in China," The Epoch Times, August 31, 2012, accessed May 10, 2016
  21. ↑ Jay Nordlinger, "Face The Slaughter: The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, by Ethan Gutmann," National Review, August 25, 2014, accessed May 10, 2016
  22. ↑ Viv Young, “The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem,” New York Journal of Books, August 11, 2014, accessed May 10, 2016
  23. ↑ Barbara Turnbull, “Q&A: Author and analyst Ethan Gutmann discusses China's illegal organ trade,” The Toronto Star, October 21, 2014, accessed May 10, 2016
  24. ↑ Ethan Gutmann, "The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem" : "Average Number of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Laogai System" 450,000 to 1,000,000 p. 320, "Best Estimate of Falun Gong Victims between 2000 and 2008 "65,000 p. 322. amazon.com, accessed on May 10, 2016
  25. ^ "Killed for Organs: China's Secret State Transplant Business," NTDTV, 2012, YouTube video, 8 minutes, accessed May 21, 2016
  26. ↑ David Kilgour, David Matas, "TEDxMünchen 2015" ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 10, 2015, accessed May 21, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tedxmuenchen.de
  27. ↑ David Kilgour, David Matas, Etham Gutmann, Blood Harvest / The Slaughter - An Update (PDF) , End Organ Pillaging, page 428, accessed September 21, 2016
  28. ^ Will Pavia, Calum MacLeod: China is 'transplanting organs of executed prisoners'. The Times, June 23, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Hearing in the EU Parliament on China's transplant abuse. Epoch Times, June 29, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  30. ↑ "Swiss Honor: Fighting Organ Harvesting in China" , News.ch, January 16, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2016
  31. ↑ "Red Reign Trailer" , (4 Minutes´n) youtube, July 30, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2016
  32. ↑ Free China: The Courage to Believe , NTDTV, 2012, accessed May 10, 2016
  33. ↑ Free China: The Courage to Believe - Trailer 2013 , 2:43 minutes, youtube, accessed on May 10, 2016
  34. ↑ cannibalized - organs to order: introduction to documentation , magazine Nano on 3SAT, February 18, 2016, youtube, accessed on May 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kilgour, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg ( Manitoba )