David Kilgour
David Kilgour, an MP from 1979 to 2004, is the co-author of Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falung Gong for Their Organs.
Bio last updated January 17th, 2019.
Articles by David Kilgour
China's Imperial Brutality
By David Kilgour
January 16, 2019
The death sentence handed to a Canadian convicted of drug smuggling reminded the world that China is the world’s top state executioner. But as former MP and veteran human rights observer David Kilgour tells Convivium readers, Beijing’s vicious persecution of its own minority populations rivals Maoist-era inhumanity.
About 20 million Muslim and Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, who make up the largest community in China’s far-west province of Xinjiang, are facing brutal repression by police and others acting on behalf of the Beijing government Kaplan noted: “The repression of the Turkic Uyghur Muslim community in western China … is a key part of Beijing’s new imperial policy
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The Torment of China's Religious Believers
Jan Harvey and David Kilgour
October 18, 2011
Freedom of belief is essential to any open society. It is difficult for anyone who has not lived under a totalitarian regime of one stripe or another to understand the ways of the Party-state in China, especially on the matter of religion. The world's attention is drawn to the tribulations of believers in the world's most populous nation by recent headlines such as, "Dalai Lama calls Chinese insistence on picking his religious successor 'a disgrace'," "China calls Vatican 'unreasonable' in bishop spat," and "Leading pastor in China's underground Protestant c hurch sentenced to two years in labor camp." And since 1999, shocking photos have emerged of Christians being beaten and dragged, weeping as their house-churches were bulldozed..
By remaining obedient to the Pope and by not registering with the Chinese government, the Roman Catholic Church is outlawed in China and is known as the 'underground,' 'loyal' or 'clandestine' church Purporting to control the church so that foreign interests cannot use religion as a political tool a...