Essential Information on Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China
Falun
Gong practitioners are being systematically killed for their organs in
labor and concentration camps across China. This is the message that
Dr. Wenyi Wang wanted the world to know when she broke protocol and
stopped Hu Jintao's speech at the White House on April 20. While the
world's media has focused on her act of civil disobedience, the
accumulating evidence pointing towards atrocities, which led Wang to
her desperate act, has thus far been largely ignored – with a few
significant exceptions.
On March 9 The Epoch Times broke the story that at a
provincial hospital in northeast China, doctors were harvesting organs
from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
As shocking as the initial revelations were, subsequent
research has shown that organ theft and murder of Falun Gong
practitioners has been a widespread practice for several years.
The most recent evidence includes taped phone conversations
with organ transplant doctors in China. These doctors have indicated
that they have immediate sources of organs for prospective patients,
suggesting a massive live organ bank—one which many of them have said
will run out at the end of April. Some of these doctors have openly
stated that the organs come from Falun Gong practitioners.
Links to the key articles that were used in the writing this report can be found below.
What We Know
Initially, two key sources came forward to reveal the existence of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang.
One of the sources, "Peter," is a Chinese investigative
journalist who worked for a Japanese TV station. The second, "Annie,"
was a staff member at the hospital, whose neurosurgeon husband
extracted the corneas of practitioners there for three years.
When,tormented by guilt, he finally confessed his crimes to his wife,
he said, "You have no idea of my agony. These Falun Gong practitioners
were alive."
Both sources fled to the United States and are risking their lives to expose "a most tragic, inhumane crime."
After nearly three weeks of silence, the Chinese regime issued
a statement. On March 28, it denied the existence of the Sujiatun camp.
By this time, all remaining Falun Gong practitioners had been removed
and the crimes covered up, said the two sources.
On March 31, a third witness came forward, identifying himself
as a veteran military doctor. He confirmed the ghastly crimes in
Sujitun, revealed 36 other concentration camps, and predicted that it
would be "useless" to enter Sujiatun to investigate now "because it is
easy to transfer several thousand people" to some of the other camps.
Accordingly, the U.S. government found nothing unusual when the CCP invited officials to tour the facilities on April 14.
The following day, The Epoch Times urgently called upon
the U.S. government to go to China and "Dig Deeper and Demand Answers"
to potentially save thousands of lives.
The need for haste is based on several important factors. The
first is that Sujitun appears to not be an isolated case. As the
military doctor stated that "Sujiatun is but one of 36 similar
concentration camps all over China." The largest camp, he said, is in
Jilin Province and it houses over 120,000 prisoners, large numbers of
whom are Falun Gong practitioners.
In a press conference in Washington D.C. on April 20, "Annie"
also called Sujiatun "the tip of the iceberg" and advised investigators
to look for evidence in labor camps and police stations where Falun
Gong practitioners are detained. If inspections are done properly, she
said, it would be "impossible to not find evidence of such massive
killing."
This investigation might also look into very obvious
questions such as how it's possible that 3,000 liver transplants were
conducted in China in 2003, when only 78 such operations were performed
between 1991 and 1998.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong (WOIPFG) has found that hospitals across China are telling
patients to come quickly to receive new organs because the current
large supply of good organs will dry up by the end of April. In
recorded telephone conversations with numerous hospitals, WOIPFG
researchers and reporters from Sound of Hope Radio found staff openly
admitting that the organs were from living people, including from Falun
Gong practitioners.
It is unclear how the sudden expected drop in organ
availability is related to the PRC Ministry of Health's new "Interim
Regulation for Human Organ Transplant Practice," ostensibly designed
restrict organ theft. The directive will take effect on July 1.
The sense of urgency being pushed by the doctors, coupled with
the fact that the legislation was announced on March 27, just a day
before the PRC's official denial of Sujiatun, has led some to ponder
the unthinkable: That Falun Gong practitioners are now being
slaughtered in a final push to make money while removing traces of
associated crimes in the process. All of these lines of evidence point
towards a terrible atrocity taking place in China today.
To genuinely investigate the situation, a special team of
international investigators, called the Coalition to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) was formed on April 18. Its mission
is "to go to every Chinese labor camp, jail, detention center, and
hospital where Falun Gong practitioners have been detained" and
independently determine the veracity of the claims.