User:Stang/柯文哲疑涉协助病人获得法轮功学员器官事件

2014年8月，伊森‧葛特曼（Ethan Gutmann）出版《屠宰》（The Slaughter）一书，其中提到柯文哲向作者透露曾经到中国大陆去帮助他的病人取得器官，而大陆医生许诺为其提供法轮功学员的器官。这些内容披露后，在2014年台北市长选举中引起轩然大波，柯文哲说作者“穿凿附会”，“吹牛吹过头”。2014年12月，在柯文哲当选市长之后，葛特曼在其网站公布相关资料，证明柯文哲曾经看过有关内容的初稿并同意出版。台湾大多数媒体对这一进展保持沉默，而个别媒体则扭曲葛特曼的本意。柯文哲本人也没有任何回应。目前，这件事情的真相依然未明。

背景

参见：中国器官移植

中国大陆器官移植的供体长期主要来自死囚。根据器官移植专家、前卫生部副部长黄洁夫等2012年在柳叶刀（The Lancet）发表的文章，中国是唯一系统性依赖死囚提供器官的国家，移植器官的65%来自死者，其中90%是已执行的死囚。2014年12月4日，黄洁夫宣布，中国自2015元旦起禁止使用死囚器官。

但是，法轮功指控中国政府活摘其成员的器官，在国外亦有乔高-麦塔斯调查报告（Kilgour-Matas report）支持这种说法。中国政府则完全否定。

柯文哲与《屠宰》一书

柯文哲在台大医院工作期间是台湾器官移植界的重要人物。他在台大医院建立了“标准器官移植程序”，以维持器官移植手术的水准，增加病人存活率，后经卫生署推广至全国。2002年，他接受卫生署委托，建立了台湾器官捐赠登录制度。自1999年11月起，他担任台大医院器官移植管理委员会委员兼执行秘书，并兼任器捐劝募小组负责医师职务。在2011年台大医院失误移植爱滋病患器官案发生后，柯文哲受到监察院弹劾并受到公惩会惩处，这是导致他决定参选台北市市长的主要原因。

葛特曼是一名长期对中国大陆摘取法轮功学员器官问题进行调查的作家和记者。2008年7月，葛特曼透过关系见到柯文哲并对其进行采访，法轮功美国学员林理善(Leeshai Lemish)担任翻译。2012年9月12日在美国众议院外交委员会调查听证会作证时，葛特曼曾提到了这次采访，但没有披露柯的名字。 2014年8月，葛特曼出版《屠宰：大规模杀害，摘取器官以及中国对异议人士的秘密处理方法》（The Slaughter：Mass Killing，Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem）一书，这次采访的内容出现在第九章之中。

根据此书描述，柯文哲到大陆去为他的病人寻求器官，但他非常担心死刑犯器官的质量，也觉得台湾病人要付外国人的价格很不公平。在与大陆外科医生吃饭、喝酒、唱卡拉OK、恭维和开玩笑之后，对方把他当成了兄弟，承诺给他自己人的价格，而且提供最好的器官：法轮功学员的器官。柯文哲也曾试图向大陆推销他设计的器官登录系统，被对方谢绝了。书中还写道，在这次采访之后，柯文哲被禁止进入中国。在一个注释中，作者特别指出，由于这个采访极为重要，有关内容的初稿曾给柯文哲看过，柯予以核准（sign off），在另一个注释中，作者注明柯文哲同意暴露其姓名，但无意对媒体重复讲诉有关内容，可以考虑在国会作证。

在2014年1月写作此书时，葛特曼知道柯文哲已经成为台湾政坛的重要人物，正在参选台北市长，也预见到他的这些经历会成为对手攻击的目标。葛特曼特别强调柯文哲愿意坦白地谈这些事情是一种奇异的勇气（singular courage）的体现，他的叙述是关键性证据（smoking gun），是长期寻找中国摘取良心犯器官的确凿医学证据的顶峰。

台北市长选举中的争议

2014年10月，长期关注中国摘取法轮功学员器官问题的律师童文薰在其脸书上对葛特曼新书有关内容做了介绍，并鼓励柯文哲站出来证实相关细节。在10月28日的记者会中，有记者问柯文哲，葛特曼的书中提到曾经给他看过草稿，他有没有看过？柯文哲说，这个访问应该有录音，至于葛特曼有寄草稿给他看，他就不敢讲了，但最起码会跟书上的内容不一样。他还说作者吹牛吹过头了，穿凿附会。10月29日，柯文哲竞选总部发出四点声明。声明强调，第一，柯文哲是在台大醫院外科加護病房服務，實際負責的是移植病患的術後照顧，根本沒有執行器官移植手術；第二、柯文哲強調，他接受作者訪談時，曾詳細探討中國大陸器官來源不明的問題，也多次呼籲各界應正視此問題；但書中所述「與大陸官員接洽」或「購買器官」的部分，絕非他本人。第三，當時接受訪談時有現場錄音，請作者詳查當時錄音內容，便可確認書中講述情節與他實際說話內容有極大落差。第四，柯文哲強調，他已正式委請律師發函該作者，要求更正。律师函强调柯文哲从未说过自己亲自到中国大陆从事法轮功学员器官买卖，要求葛特曼三个星期内更正。

葛特曼透过器官移植關懷協會副理事長黃士維提出三點聲明。首先，葛特曼沒有講柯文哲仲介器官買賣，可能是英文解讀不同所致。其次，葛特曼已收到柯辦律師函並表示選後會與柯文哲討論如何修改書籍內容。最後，葛特曼肯定柯文哲有道德勇氣，願討論中共有使用法輪功成員器官進行移植手術，同時也呼籲各界應關注強摘法輪功成員器官事件。

11月7日，對手連勝文在电视辯論會中再度指控柯文哲， 柯拿出葛特曼律師11月4日的回函反駁，回函表示，葛特曼先生不認為柯醫師是個器官的仲介者，台灣某些媒體對他本人和柯醫師的攻擊都是不負責任、不道德的、不準確的。

11月27日，柯文哲办公室公布葛特曼律师的正式回函。回函称他们已经详细检视书中有关内容以及访谈记录，再次强调他们认为语言与文化的差异造成了一些误解，英语读者不会把柯文哲当成是一个器官中介者，中文翻译版本将力求准确，并在序言中回应柯文哲的疑虑。信中再次称赞柯文哲行为高尚，他對於揭露目前仍在中國進行的醫療犯罪行為有著重大國際級的貢獻。

在2014年台北市长选举中，柯文哲一直稳定领先对手，这一争议事件对他的民调并没有造成明显负面影响。11月29日，柯文哲以得票率57%当选台北市长。

柯文哲当选台北市长之后的发展

12月19日，在太阳花学运后由左翼青年创立的《破土》（New Bloom）网络杂志上，柯文哲的支持者高铭佑发表《柯文哲到底是怎麼涉入中國器官買賣的？》一文。高铭佑注意到葛特曼的律师函中并没有涉及书的内容，也没有撤回任何内容，故可以合理推断葛特曼坚持书中的描述，包括256页这一段：

柯醫師去了中國，認真仔細地和他的同業們按表操課搏感情：喝到掛的盛宴、卡拉OK、白蘭地加茅台酒、微妙的恭維和對他腔調的調侃。當儀式真正告一段落，每個人的酒都醒了，中國外科醫師找他說話：

“你是我們的一份子。你是我們的兄弟。我們算你家庭價。但我們還會幫你做更多。我們注意到你很擔心器官的品質。我們也信任你的判斷力。所以你不用擔心你的病人，他們只會得到最好的：所有的器官都會來自法輪功。”

柯醫師微笑，客氣地感謝他們，移植過程開始。

12月22日，葛特曼在高铭佑这篇文章后面贴出一个链接，指向其网站的一个页面，上有一段访谈录像及文字问答，说明其立场，并提供相关证据下载。供下载的资料包括葛特曼助手林理善(Leeshai Lemish)与柯文哲电子邮件沟通，双方往来律师函以及《屠宰》一书相关内容扫描件。根据这些材料，林理善在2013年6月12日给柯文哲发电子邮件，说葛特曼正在写一篇关于中國大陆医生黄洁夫的文章，作为比较，柯文哲在以前采访中说的事情也会被纳入其中，并问柯文哲：1.在不暴露其名字和身份的情况下，这些内容可不可以写？2.所写故事是否如实，是否准确，如果不是，该如何修改？在电子邮件之后附有葛特曼的文章的部分内容，文字与后来书中的文字基本相同。柯文哲回复：故事看起来可以（The story seems Ok）。2014年1月9日，林理善再次给柯文哲发电子邮件，告知葛特曼的书已经进入最后阶段，8月会出版，并问，柯以前以匿名方式出现，这次是否可以具名以增加可信度？并称书中可以说柯不愿意接受媒体采访，但可能在国会或者议会作证。柯文哲回：好，我说的，我会负责（Ok，for what I say，I can be responsible）。得到这个答复之后，林理善还向柯文哲要了一张柯本人的照片供书籍出版之用。葛特曼公布的这些材料证明柯文哲在《屠宰》出版之前知悉、确认并允许有关内容公开出版。

2014年12月23日，大纪元记者Matthew Robertson在大纪元英文网站转帖了葛特曼网站上的问答，并说明这些问题本是台湾一家英文报纸提出的，但这家媒体最后不知何故放弃了对他采访。12月26日，苹果日报日报记者何哲欣对葛特曼网站的内容进行报道，但却歪曲葛特曼的本意，说柯文哲讲的是其他台湾医生的事情，并非柯本人。12月27日，大纪元台湾版也对葛特曼网站的内容进行报道，但却刻意略过葛特曼公布的主要证据。到目前为止，台湾其它媒体幾乎没有报道。

12月19日黃潔夫在參訪高雄長庚醫院时表示中國大陸2015年起禁用死囚器官，並期盼能與台灣合作，建立器官移植平台，讓大陸器官合法輸台。但此議被衛生福利部所拒。同日晚间，柯文哲说黃潔夫在兩三天之前有來辦公室找他，談了約半小時。12月25日，柯文哲正式就任台北市市长。当天，针对一〇一大楼前法轮功学员与爱国同心会成员的冲突，柯文哲当众警告信义警分局局长李德威：如果再有法轮功被打，就把你换掉！对葛特曼提供的证据，柯文哲目前没有任何回应。

葛特曼网站公布的主要资料

葛特曼助理林理善2013年6月12日致柯文哲电子邮件及柯文哲回复

主旨：Dear Dr. Ko

Dr. Ko, 您好！

还记得我吗？2008年和美国记者一起跟你见了面，去年我们还通了电话。您最近好吗？我前几个月还去了台北，应该找机会拜访您。对不起，失礼了！

有事要问您。这几年，那位作者一直很活跃，在揭露活摘器官这方面可以说是世界最突出的专家之一。您可能有听说，国际社会上也有些进展。面对大陆的所谓“器官手术旅游”（organ transplant tourism）个别国家也在考虑更严格的法律。那么，这位作者是靠不同的采访（包括更在大陆曾经做过这些事情的警察）来调查，写文章，这这些事情暴光。给国际社会压力也好，做个历史记载也好，这是他的使命。

这几天他在写一片关于黄洁夫的文章。很可能在大陆当过活摘器官主力的黄洁夫正在海外得到奖励和荣耀。为了做一个对比和讲清楚这件事，作者想提您当时跟我们说的一些想法。所以我们想问您两个问题。

1。在不提您的名字、具体情况或任何细节的情况下，可不可以写这个内容？

2。他写的故事的这个初稿（在下面）有没有靠近现实？有没有根据？因为当时我们没有录音，也没有往这方面问您太多，所以有点情况我们不太清楚，只是记得大概方向。您可不可以看一眼，告诉我们这个故事哪里有不太准的地方？要是不对，因该怎么说才对了？

对不起，劳您这事。又是英语，他的表达方法（比如，“soup-to-nuts”=自始至终）有时候我也不一定马上理解。但是我知道这件事情对您来说也很重要，才敢麻烦您了。

您也可以随时跟我联系。美国号码：（略）

非常感谢您。我们继续努力！

祝您端午节快乐！

林理善

（Leeshai Lemish）

A Tale of two Surgeons

Just over a decade ago, a young Taiwanese surgeon began thinking about going to the mainland to acquire humane organs. It wasn’t a pleasant decision, he thought of himself as a conscientious man, not a gambler. But the waiting period for a liver or even a kidney in Taiwan could be as long as two or three years, by which time many of his patients would simply waste away. And if Chinese hospitals could perform the soup-to-nuts services they claimed on the web—donor to order, surgery, observation, recovery—patients who could barely be loaded onto a plane might come back as human beings who had successfully digested their airline meal, weren’t sure they actually needed the wheelchair, and tearfully hugged their waiting grandchildren. Taiwan was a death sentence for these patients: Mainland Chinese hospitals were blatantly advertising a tissue matched organ within a week or perhaps two.

He didn’t particularly want to look behind the Mainland curtain that’s all. You could do anything you liked in China. Cut someone’s dick off if you liked. Not that much difference from what he was trying to do; it was common knowledge that the organs were being taken from executed prisoners on death row.

So if his job was to ride his fragile patients into the wild, wild east and bring them back alive, okay, but even that wasn’t certain; the criminal life-style led to high probability of hepatitis, drug-use, or promiscuous sex. Labour camp led to stress and malnutrition. Any or perhaps all of these medical histories would now be given a second life in his patients’ bodies. And there was no recourse if something went wrong , not in a highly competitive, entrepreneurial business that operated in a not-quite-black market but a very, very gray one. Nor were his patients in any sense rich. Taiwan was still an emerging tiger, his patients had lived interesting lives to be sure, but modest ones. A glance at the web established the foreigner price of 63,000 US for a kidney. Because Chinese regarded the Taiwanese as slick foreigners wearing a Chinese mask that would be his price too, and yet native Chinese were paying half that. This injustice gnawed at him. Somehow, where so many Taiwanese businessmen before him had failed, he would have to convince the Mainland doctors he was not foreign devil but a brother.

The surgeon went to China and meticulously worked through the checklist of intimacy with his medical colleagues: The go-to-hell banquet. The karaoke bar. The cognac followed by the Mao-Tai. The subtle flattery and the jokes about his accent. And when the ritual was truly finished, the Chinese surgeons summoned him.

You are one of us. You are a brother. So we will give you the family price. But we are going to do more for you than that. We’ve noted your worries and concerns about organ quality. And we trust your discretion. So you will have no worries for your patients. They will receive nothing but the best: all the organs will come from Falun Gong. These people may be a little fanatical, but you know? They don’t drink. They don’t smoke. Many of them are young. They practice healthy Chi-gong. Very soon your patients—they will be young and healthy too.

And the surgeon smiled and thanked them politely, and the process began. But at the point of victory, he had felt no relief, only something that gnawed at him worse than before. Something he could not speak of.

Even as he set up appointments for his patients on the Mainland, the surgeon kept thinking that there must be a way to rationalize the system to apply some oversight, some sort of technical fix. Yet now that the doctors had blood on their hands there was no obvious way to medical reform. An open discussion would require dredging up the past. The Party would never allow the slaughter of prisoners of conscience to be revealed to the world—in fact his Chinese surgeon friends had already let him know discreetly that the harvesting of Falun Gong would be put in hold as the Olympics approached. When it was over—they would do it again. Perhaps the way forward was to use that brief hiatus as an opening to implement good bureaucratic hygiene, something to raise the cost of keeping secrets?

There was plenty of talk about consent forms—making the prisoner sign a release donating his organ to the nation “as a final penance” or something like that. But the surgeon knew the labor camp administrations could get anyone to sign anything. Reform had to start with the doctors’ conscience. On his own time, the surgeon labored to create a national database system, a mandatory electronic form. For every organ acquired, a doctor would have to fill in details on individual donor health, medical background, blood type, address, arrest record, everything. The form just had to be simple, non-threatening, and mainland-user-friendly—something even a barefoot doctor could use. Maybe he could sell the system to the Chinese medical establishment, even make some sort of compensation, and yet—that gnaw again—even if the mainland doctors adopted the system, you would only remove 95% of the problem. It was sickening.

Anyway they rejected it. It was obvious in retrospect that it was okay for the mainland doctors to run a sort of informal ebay of organ trading, done through emails, and discrete usergroups, but the surgeon’s form would either cut out too many potential donor or leave too much of an electronic trail. The rejection was passed on with the respect you give to a distant cousin who doesn’t quite get it. A few years later the surgeon gave an anonymous interview to an American writer—well, we thought it was anonymous anyway—and the surgeon was banned from the mainland for life.

It was during that same period, just short of 2006, that a Chinese doctor named Huang Jiefu was developing a reputation, save one, he was a very prolific transplant surgeon—if we have some understanding of what was in the Taiwanese surgeon’s heart, we know little of Huang Jiefu’s—in fact, that’s one of the unsolved mysteries of this article. But we do know, by Huang’s own admission, that he averaged over 100 liver transplants a year...

柯文哲2013年6月12日回复：

the story seems Ok.

Dr. Wen-je Ko（柯文哲）

senior staff，SICU，Department of Surgery

chairman，Department of Traumatology

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei，Taiwan

葛特曼助理林理善2014年1月9日致柯文哲电子邮件及柯文哲回复

主旨： Dr. Ko, a question

Dear Dr. Ko,

Happy New Year! I hope this email finds you well.

Ethan Gutmann is in the final stages of completing his book. I don’t know if you saw - it is scheduled to come out in August and has already sold some advance orders on Amazon:

(Amazon公司的一个链接，不易辨识，略)

We wanted to ask you if you would be willing to give us permission to use your name when mentioning the things you told us. In the past, we just referred to you as “anonymous Taiwan doctor”, but it is much more credible with a name. This will help the evidence.

You would be doing a great service, maybe even help save some people’s lives. We can put in the book that you do not wish to do media interview, except for maybe you would be willing to testify before Congress or Parliament, if that is the case.

Please think about it and let us know. We hope you will be okay with having your name used. We believe it will be very helpful.

您可以随时跟我联系，美国号码：**********

非常感谢您，

With best wishes to you,

林理善

(Leeshai Lemish)

柯文哲回复：

OK

for what I say， I can be responsible.

Dr. Wen-je Ko（柯文哲）

senior staff，SICU，Department of Surgery

chairman，Department of Traumatology

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei，Taiwan

柯文哲的律师2014年10月28日致葛特曼函

TO: Mr. Ethan Gutmann

Oct. 28, 2014

RE: The Slaughter

I am a lawyer practicing law in Taiwan. In a recent book Entitled “The Slaughter” published recently mentions that Dr. Ko Wen-Je was involved in organ transplant purchased from mainland China. More importantly, in page 255 you mentioned that “All the organs will come from Falun Gong”. On behalf of Dr. Ko, I would like you to clarify that Dr. Ko had never mentioned to contact with mainland China officials to purchase organ from mainland China himself.

I would be gratified that you can recheck your tape recording to check and identify that the content of interview is different from the content mentioned in your above mentioned book. After your doing that, I will request you to correct these parts which are not done by Dr. Ko, especially the contact with mainland China officials about purchase of organs, not to mention that these organs are from Falun Gong.

Your correction of the said content is hereby requested in three weeks.

Regards

Sincerely yours,

HSIU HUI YUAN

葛特曼的律师2014年11月4日回函

回覆：您10月28日給葛特曼先生的信函

親愛的Hsiu先生：

我們告知收到你的來函。

首先，我要明確聲明葛特曼先生對柯醫師有最高的敬意，他不認為他是器官仲介。

葛特曼先生認為，台灣某些特定媒體對他本人與柯醫師的攻擊是不負責，違反道德，不準確的。同時，葛特曼先生知道台北正在舉行選舉，這讓事情變得更為複雜，可能也加劇台灣媒體不負責任的程度。

根據之前我們達成的協議，我們會在三周內針對你們來函提出的問題做完整回覆，請以本信作為這項承諾的確認。

克萊夫 安世立
敬上
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Re: Your letter to Mr Gutmann on October 28, Last

Dear Mr.Hsiu：

We acknowledge receipt of the captioned letter.

At the outset, I would like to make clear that Mr Gutmann has the utmost respect for Dr.Ko and does not consider him to be an organ broker.

Mr.Gutmann considers the attacks on both himself and Dr.Ko by elements of the Taiwan press to be irresponsible, unethical, and inaccurate. At the same time , Mr.Gutmann recognizes that there is an election in progress in Taipei and that this complicates things and perhaps serves to exacerbate the irresponsibility of the Taiwan press.

Please accept this letter as our confirmation that we shall provide a fuller response to the issues raised in your letter within the three week time period upon which we have agreed.

Yours Truly
Clive Ansley

葛特曼的律师2014年11月25日回函

回覆：您10月給葛特曼先生的信函

請諒解我們的回應時間，超過了您當初於十一月四號信中，我們所承諾的三週期限數日。

我們對於柯醫師的疑慮非常認真地看待，且我們已經詳閱所有書中相關頁面並檢視當時撰寫依據的面談紀錄與文件。

我們認為，在台灣媒體上全面性的誤解與魯莽的指控，是因為Gutmann書中的英文與相關頁面被翻譯成中文過後，因為語言與文化的差異所造成的理解問題。

我們相信所有的誤解都會在中文版的The Slaughter中被澄清，其中會包含未收錄在英文版中的序言，會直接回應柯文哲醫師的疑慮。

為了讓事情更明朗，我們必須要指出，對於書中225頁的理解，完全沒有英語語系的評論家，有著跟第一語言是華語的台灣讀者有著相同解釋。 在您給Gutmann先生的信件中，您對於255頁的敘述「所有器官都是來自於法輪功」有特別的疑慮。

這本書有透過三位專業讀者同儕審查，且經Prometheus冗長的內部編輯過程，不僅包含文字內容，更須檢視作者的筆記、訪談的錄音帶以及電子溝通。

沒有任何英語系的讀者會將標題或是文字內容解讀為，柯文哲可從類似私人「器官仲介」交易的形式取得法輪功器官，只會解讀為柯文哲醫師是被告知資訊的。

迄今沒有任何英語系讀者曾經將柯文哲醫師解讀為器官仲介者。

迄今也沒有任何英語系讀者相信，柯文哲醫師曾試圖自行購買器官或是以任何形式參與營利行為。

相反地，多數讀者讚揚柯醫師對於調查的貢獻。審查人員們均一致地如此回應，就像是觀眾們在華盛頓特區National Endowment for Democracy中舉辦的The Slaughter書本發表會的反應一樣。

我們相信語言、翻譯以及在台北市市長選舉中激昂的政治環境，會導致大家誤會作者的意思並讓事情變得更模糊。

然而我們將全力確保在中文版的The Slaughter會越準確越好。

總而言之，我們重申我們認為台灣媒體對於柯文哲醫師以及Gutmann先生的對待是不公平的。Gutmann先生相信且我們認為他的書所闡述的是，柯文哲醫師的舉止高尚，柯文哲醫師從來不曾執行器官仲介，他也從來不曾透過中國器官市場進行獲利，且他對於揭露目前仍在中國進行的醫療犯罪行為有著重大國際級的貢獻，柯文哲醫師的行為是令人驕傲的。

克萊夫 安世立
敬上
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Re: Your Letter to Mr. Gutmann on October

Please excuse us for having exceeded by a few days the three week time period within which we had agreed to expand upon our earlier letter to you of November 4.

We take Dr. Ko's concerns very seriously and we have reviewed the relevant pages in his book together with our own records of interviews and notes on which those pages were based.

We have concluded that the entire misunderstanding and the reckless accusations which have appeared in the Taiwan media would appear to be based on language and cultural differences between the English in Mr. Gutmann's book, on the one hand, and the understanding of the relevant pages when the latter have been rendered into Chinese.

We believe that all misunderstandings will be clarified in the Chinese edition of The Slaughter, which will contain a special preface not included in the English edition. This preface will address Dr. Ko's concerns directly.

For greater clarity, we would like to point out that no English speaking reviewer of the book has understood page 255 in the way it has apparently been understood in Taiwan by readers whose first language is Chinese.

In your letter to Mr. Gutmann, you specifically mentioned the caption on page 255 reading "All the Organs will come from Falun Gong" as a particular concern.

This book was peer-reviewed by three expert readers and subjected to a lengthy internal editing process by Prometheus. This review included not only the text itself, but also the author's notes, interview tapes, and electronic communications.

No English-speaking reader has understood the caption or the text to mean anything other than that Dr. Ko was being given information, rather than making a statement about the availability of Falun Gong organs in some sort of personal "organ broker" deal.

No English-speaking reader to date has understood for one moment that Dr. Ko was acting as an "organ broker".

No English-speaking reader to date believes that Dr. Ko was trying to purchase organs himself or was in any way involved in any sort of profit-making venture.

On the contrary, most readers have praised Dr. Ko for his contribution to the investigation. Reviewers have responded similarly, as did the audience at the author's book launch at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC.

We believe that language, translation, and the heated environment of the political campaign for the mayoral race in Taipei may be playing a role in misconstruing the author's intentions and clouding the issue.

Nonetheless we are interested in ensuring that the Chinese edition of The Slaughter is as accurate as possible. In conclusion, we reiterate that we think the Taiwan media has been unfair in its treatment of both Dr. Ko and Mr. Gutmann. Mr. Gutmann believes, and we think his book demonstrates, that Dr. Ko has acted honourably, that he has never been an organ broker, that he has never sought profit through China's organ marketing, and that he has contributed significantly to the international effort to expose the medical crimes which continue to be perpetrated in China.

Yours Truly
Clive Ansley

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