Group Asks for Investigation of Toronto Body Exhibition

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A Toronto-based human rights group, Choose Humanity, has addressed a formal letter to the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner in order to request them to inspect the skeletons kept at the Bodies Revealed exhibition in Niagara Falls. According to a disclaimer on the website of the exhibition’s parent company, it publicly acknowledges that it cannot verify the bodies aren’t those of executed Chinese prisoners “appalling.”

The Niagara Falls exhibition has been on display at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel since February and is scheduled to close Oct. 1. In the letter, lawyer Joel Etienne suggested that once the exhibition is over, Ontario authorities should bar the human remains on display from leaving the country so that they can be properly investigated. The letter addressed this week by Etienne went beyond making that request and recommended that “I think we should have a proper policy for how we handle these types of things in Ontario.”

In its remarks, the group has alleged that it believes that many of the bodies and human remains on display are of those Chinese prisoners whose families have not given permission to have their relatives’ bodies used this way. Explaining the position of the organization, Etienne elucidated that “my position is they should have full, documented consent of every individual that would have given their body to science. The onus is on them to prove they were not victims of nefarious circumstances.”