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AN OPEN LETTER
Vanita Patel
MBE
COMMISSIONER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR NATURAL JUSTICE
I n April, 2018, during three beautiful Spring days, I attended a poignant hearing on
human trafficking and child sex abuse hosted by the International Tribunal for Natural
Justice at Westminster Central Hall, just steps away from the British Parliament. As a newly
appointed Commissioner I was expecting to hear and see some awful things human beings
do to each other.
A long-term supporter and Patron of Anti Slavery International I knew of the horrors of the
abhorrent practices of the past and present slavery trade, particularly human trafficking and
child sex abuse. I know that, according to the 2017 Global Slavery Index, there are an estimated
45.8 million people in some form of slavery in 167 countries around the world. Slavery is more
prevalent today than it was centuries ago when slavery was actually legal! I also know that basic
human rights of children and adults are being grossly violated, but I was not prepared for what
was presented at this Inquiry.
Just an hour into the harrowing testimonies and evidence presented at the hearing, the face of
humanity began to grow uglier. I learned that almost eight million missing children get abused
and often murdered by the pedophiles of the world. That is 22,000 children a day! I heard cases
of gross child abuse in its most sadistic forms, and evidence of organs forcefully removed and
sold for profit in China from the Falun Gong communities. Desperate patients from across the
world travel to China and are able to search and buy organs within days compared to waiting
years in other countries. Falun Gong practitioners adhere to truthfulness, kindness, and are
completely non-violent, therefore they are no threat to the Chinese Communist party, yet they
are persecuted. They pay the price for their healthy lifestyles by being robbed of their ‘healthy’
organs... very often while still alive! Men, women, and children are subjected torture and cruelty
in inhumane and degrading ways.
Hour by hour the testimonies and substantiated records and experiences revealed that, despite
the efforts of the international community to combat these abhorrent practices, they are still
widely in existence, and in many hidden forms. Often these practices are organized in highly
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