Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/5/20/73525.html
(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used tremendous financial interests as bait and enticed the military, armed police, public security officials, judiciary officials, government officials on various levels, government officials in the public health system, healthcare workers and organ trade intermediaries to participate in this most brutal and bloody murder. This is a state orchestrated crime that is void of human nature.
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3. The Persecution Sites Throughout China are the Headquarters of the CCP's Live Organ Bank
3.1 Ms. Wang Yuzhi's Experience Being a Step Away from Becoming a Live Organ Donor
On April 3, 2006, Wang Yuzhi testified in an Argentine court against Luo Gan, one of the head persecutors responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong. She recounted the tortures she suffered at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City. When she went nearly blind in both eyes and was at the brink of death, 610 Office agents took her to four hospitals in Harbin City in 2001 and put her through whole-body examinations to see if she qualified for organ harvesting.
Wang Yuzhi testifying in court
"On October 25, 2001, I was taken to Harbin Police Hospital for a systemic whole-body examination. Several days later I was taken to No. 2 Hospital in Heilongjiang Province to see a medical expert. When examining my skin, the woman doctor asked if I had any allergies and whether I had frequent itches, because she saw me scratching my thighs. I answered that I had skin allergies before practicing Falun Gong, and I could not take medications. The result of this exam was the same as the last one--there were problems with my blood; my corneas, kidneys, liver and skin were all considered useless.
Yet the Heilongjiang Province 610 Office refused to give up. In March 2002 I was secretly transferred to the No. 2 Hospital in Harbin City. Because I had been on hunger strike the blood they drew from me was black-purplish in color, and I could not urinate. They gave me IV dextrose for more than one hour, but then the medical test detected blood in my urine. They asked me if I had ever contracted nephritis. I answered that I had it at a young age, and I often wet the bed because of my poor kidney condition. They checked my kidneys and then they checked my liver. Five police officers and one nurse held me down as they took x-ray pictures of me from head to toe. The doctor said the machine seemed to be broken because I had heart palpitations, and it would be beating one minute and stop beating the next minute.
I was finally sent to the No. 1 Hospital in Harbin City. Eleven riot police officers watched me around the clock. The doctor checked my eyes, throat, trachea and other organs, including the brain. The 610 Office agents were disappointed to learn that the result was the same as from the previous hospitals - I was an "invalid," and none of my organs including skin were healthy, which actually was a complete result of the brutal torture. The 610 Office finally gave up on me. Starting on May 1, they removed one police officer each day, and all of the police were gone by May 8. They left me alone.
With the help of a nurse I phoned my friends and escaped from the death trap."
3.2 Ms. Chen Ying's Experience of a Suspicious Health Checkup Carried out Against her Will at the Beijing Detention Center
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Ying from Beijing who currently lives in Paris, exposed in April 2006, that in 2000, guards at Chaoyang Detention Center, Tuanhe Labor Dispatch Division and Xinan Labor Camp in Beijing conducted thorough physical exams on Falun Gong practitioners who refused to reveal their names.
"In late September 2000, I was arrested after going to a fellow practitioner's home and was sent to Chaoyang Detention Center. I refused to tell my name, and I was given a number. One day about a week later, the guards put heavy handcuffs and shackles on practitioners who refused to tell their names. We were sent to an eerily quiet hospital. We were given a thorough examination, including heart, EKG, blood tests and eye exam.
Afterwards one guard said to me, 'You haven't eaten or drank fluid for so long, but you are still in good health.' He also asked about my medical history. I told him, 'Of course I'm in good health, because I practice Falun Gong and I am a good person. I didn't start practicing Falun Gong because of health problems. I just thought Truth, Compassion, Forbearance teaches people to be good, and that's great.' Later, the officer brought a few bottles of IV fluids. We were taken back to the detention center and handcuffed to a window frame. The guards forcibly gave us IV infusions. When the drug entered my body I felt as if my heart was beating out of my chest. My veins almost burst from piercing pain, and I felt suffocated. When a guard who was usually not that vicious came over and said, 'You can't stay here if you don't tell your name! We must send you someplace where you will never come out.' Later, I told my name and address, and he immediately phoned the local police station in the area where I lived and asked them to come pick me up.
Between February 2000 and March 2001, I was illegally detained three times, and each time I was forced to undergo a 'routine' whole body exam. I met many Falun Gong practitioners from all parts of the country there. They came to Beijing only to tell the government, 'Falun Dafa is good!' These practitioners refused to tell their names in order not to implicate people related to them. As a result they were savagely beaten and were assigned numbers. They were often called out around 4:00 a.m. They were told to get to an emergency gathering, were sent away and have never been heard from since. The guards were really nervous and were fully armed. They returned quite a few days later. The guards and the inmates all talked about the CCP building bases (concentration camps) in Xinjiang, Hebei and Northeast China that were especially used to detain Falun Gong practitioners. They said, 'Don't be stubborn by clinging to your practice! Otherwise you'll face a terrible situation if you are sent over there...'"
3.3 "I Almost Became an 'Organ Donor"
On April 16, 2006, the Minghui website reported the story of a Falun Gong practitioner who was nearly murdered in 2001 at the Guanshanzi Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/4/21/72263.html):
"It was in late November 2001, the second day after we returned from a labor site some distance away. The police officer in charge suddenly came into my cell and ordered me to pack my belongings, saying that they would send me back to the labor site. This was quite unusual, because the team working at the site would soon be finished and they were to come back. I said I did not want to go. Soon, they shaved my head and locked me in a small cell. For many days I was hung in a metal cage, handcuffed to the cage. I held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The skin around my wrists started to fester and I developed symptoms of lymphatic inflammation. Prison doctor Zhang Fan came to take a look and said that I needed to take medication, otherwise my armpits would become ulcerated. The doctor said I needed to take intravenous Ciprofloxacin [an antibiotic], two bottles of fluid at a time.
I noticed that the doctor took care to put on rubber gloves before administering the IV fluid, so I became suspicious of the medicine. However, if I refused to take medication, there would be more severe persecution. So, I sat on the toilet bucket, hooked up to the infusion. When there was no one watching, I disconnected the line from the syringe and let the medicine run into the toilet. However, as blood would run into the syringe needle, I had to put the line back onto the needle before the blood ran through. After a few times of doing this, the 100 ml bottle of medicine soon ran out. The doctor changed the bottle. I did the same thing again, to let the medicine run out. In less than half an hour the fluid was gone. The third day, the doctor had become suspicious and came to check from time to time. I took a chance and pulled the needle out of the vein and left it in place under the adhesive tape used to hold the needle. This way, the police could not see anything on the surface, but the medicine ran into the toilet along the back of my hand. This went on for five days. Even after that, I still felt that my memory became sluggish. One day, the hospital people insisted that I must go for a health exam, and that it wouldn't work if I insisted I did not want to go. On the way, I thought about it and suddenly had an idea!
After I was taken to the Guanshanzi Hospital, the doctor took my blood pressure and wrote out a list of tests for me to take, but they refused to let me see the list of tests. They took me to have an electrocardiogram and scan. They did a particularly careful kidney B scan and told me to give them a urine sample. I told them I did not have any urine right now, but they said I had to provide a urine sample anyway. I said they would have to give me some time and leave me alone, otherwise I could not do it. In the little while when they could not see me, I sucked out some blood from my gums and spit it into the urine cup with some saliva. I then urinated a bit and mixed it with what I spit in the cup. Then I handed it over. I also recalled another incident. Whenever newcomers arrived, they were all asked about their blood type and had blood samples taken during the first month after their arrival. We were told our liver function was going to be checked. So, the CCP had planned from day one to harvest organs of determined Falun Gong practitioners!
3.4 The Abnormal Health Checkups at Various Persecution Sites
"Routine" physical exams, under orders from the CCP, are widely conducted at locations of persecution throughout China, the goal of which is not to protect or treat the practitioners but to establish a living organ bank, since blood typing is a necessary step for a tissue match.
In September and October 2001, authorities at the Baiquan Forced Labor Camp in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province received orders to conduct comprehensive physical exams on more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners illegally held there. The exams included blood tests, EEG, EKG, liver function test and lung x-ray, among other tests. The exams were done at a large hospital close to the Commercial Walk Street in Liaoyuan City. These were all male Falun Gong practitioners transferred from the local areas, Jilin City and Siping City. In December 2001 they were all transferred away (it was said that they were sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City).
In 2001, nearly 1,000 male Falun Gong practitioners were held at the No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Shandong Province, also called the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. Because the number of detainees grew rapidly, some practitioners were transferred to Jinan City, Qingdao City and Weifang City, among other places. Each practitioner was taken to the No. 83 Factory Hospital, the labor camp hospital, for special exams. The doctors spent nearly 20 minutes carefully examining each practitioner's liver, kidney and other organs with B-ultrasound, and they drew lots of blood for testing. The guards often said to the practitioners, "If you don't "reform" [renounce Dafa], the government has lots of ways to deal with you. We'll lock you away in a place nobody knows about and you can forget about ever coming out."
In early January 2005, the labor camp authorities again drew a large vial of blood from each practitioner. Only a few people who were completely "reformed" and turned into tools to attack Falun Gong practitioners were spared.
On the afternoon of March 9, 2005, staff from the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province suddenly wanted to draw blood from Falun Gong practitioners and claimed they were going to test the practitioners for hepatitis B. People with some medical knowledge knew that a hepatitis B exam should be done when the patient did not eat breakfast. In the afternoon the authorities suddenly told the practitioners to prepare for a blood-draw. Everyone was suspicious of the real purpose for the exam. The guards dragged the practitioners out, handcuffed them to metal chairs and drew blood from them. Many practitioners were extremely weak from torture, and some were disabled. The guards squeezed drops of blood from veins on the practitioners' arms but still could not obtain the required quantity.
In March 2005, each of all the Falun Gong practitioners held at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City had a large vial of blood drawn. They were told the blood was used to check for "infectious diseases." Labor camp hospital head Jiang Chao was very vicious in the process.
According to a January 23, 2005 report on the Minghui website, a small room on the third floor at the No. 2 Division of the Dalian City Emergency Center is especially used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. This is the place where the hospital staff injects Falun Gong practitioners with unknown drugs and frequently draws blood from them to conduct medical exams.
In late 2004, Beijing's deputy mayor Qiang Wei went to the Shunyi District to urge the launch of another round of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. This was followed by the arrest of more than ten Falun Gong practitioners. They were taken to the Beijing Police Hospital and tied to the death bed. They denied use of the restroom and were consequently soaked in urine and feces all day long. Each day they were injected with large doses of unknown drugs, and their blood was drawn on numerous occasions.
On March 27, 2001, the Minghui website reported that Falun Gong practitioners who were holding a hunger strike at Anhui Province Women's Labor Camp received injections and had their blood drawn.
On April 13, 2005, report(s) on the Minghui website indicate that recently, authorities at the Sichuan Province Women's Prison forcibly drew blood from Falun Gong practitioners to run blood tests, claiming to be detecting AIDS.
4. The CCP's "Murder Industry"
4.1 "A Coordinated Process of Murder Industry" in Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioners
On April 14, 2006, an insider who worked in the Jinan City medical system for more than 20 years suffered great pangs of conscience because he kept silent in the face of atrocities against Falun Gong practitioners. He wrote to an overseas media to expose the horrifying facts about the harvest and sale of Falun Gong practitioners' organs:
Shandong Province Qianfoshan Hospital in Jinan City, Shandong Province General Police Hospital, Shandong Province Prison, Shandong Province Women's Prison (located on South Gongye Road. Its official name is "Shandong Province Xingye Development Company Co.") colluded with some other prisons and labor camps. They formed a live organ bank made up of Falun Gong practitioners detained, an organ transplant market and an intermediary. They established a "coordinated process murder industry" that includes live organ harvesting, transplants, experiment and profit sharing.
Qianfoshan Hospital is located on No. 66 Jingshi Road in Jinan City, and Shandong Province General Police Hospital, usually called the Labor Reeducation Hospital, is located on No. 134 Yingxiongshan Road in Jinan City. These two large hospitals received clear instructions from the central CCP regime that the hospital staff should devote themselves fully to the live harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs. The removal and transplanting of organs formed a streamlined operation.
In the past few years, officials at the Qianfoshan Hospital and the Tianjin City municipal regime jointly established the Oriental Organ Transplant Research Institute--Shandong Liver Transplant Center, the first specialized liver transplant center in Shandong Province. Kidney transplants, testicle transplants, lung transplants and cornea transplants are common at the center. There are more than 800 beds at the center. The more than 300 staff members have professional rankings higher than vice-senior, 44 professors with Ph.D.s and Masters students, and more than 90 concurrent and associate professors from Shandong University.
This center is currently a clinical medical college of Shandong University and is also used as a clinical teaching hospital for Shandong Chinese Medicine University, the Weifang Medical Institute, Taishan Medical Institute, the Binzhou Medical Institute, Shandong Province Nursing School and other health profession institutions. Just as one witness who exposed the Sujiatun Concentration Camp had said, "Because the regime does not want to be responsible for Falun Gong practitioners' bodies and lives, the regime treats their lives as garbage. Their bodies were used in experiments by new doctors doing their practicum."
Qianfoshan Hospital in Shandong Province
The Shandong Province General Police Hospital is divided into inner and outer quarters. The outer quarter is open to the public, where common people and the police can go for medical treatment, and the inner quarter is behind a metal gate, and is in fact a prison. It is run according to prison regulations, except it has many doctors on its staff and much medical equipment. Mostly organ harvesting is done there. This is where Falun Gong practitioners from prisons, labor camps and detention centers are sent. It is a place where the practitioners are brutally murdered.
According to results of investigations by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, all hospital staff in Henan Province, Shandong Province, Shanghai, Guangdong Province, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning Province, and Hubei Province told investigators that they could provide Falun Gong practitioners' organs. The passage below also testifies to the fact that crimes are taking place all over China.
The No. 2 People's Hospital of Shanxi Hospital, or Shanxi Province Career Illness Hospital that was built in recent years is located on No. 39 West Kouzhuang Road in Taiyuan City. It houses the Shanxi Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Center. By the end of 2004, more than 500 kidney transplant surgeries were performed at the center. The organs used at the center came mainly from "Taiyuan City People's Court Judicial Police Training Center," which is actually an execution ground for the Taiyuan City People's Court. The highest number of executions performed in Taiyuan City is about 20 people a year. The Yongan Crematory is right next door to the Training Center. The crematory was built in the past decade. The Xindian Labor Camp, consisting of women's and men's division, is close to the crematory. This labor camp held several thousand Falun Gong practitioners during the past few years.
On March 5, 2006, the Movie, TV and Books Weekly newspaper published by the Changchun Daily Newspaper Group devoted a whole page to a story that stated the following: On December 17, 2005, a Korean who received a liver transplant at the center told the reporter that getting organs from brain-dead people in Korea is harder than picking stars in the sky. The center, however, performed 53 liver transplants within two weeks, between December 16, 2005 and December 30, 2005. His family revealed that the center did as many as 24 liver and kidney transplants in one day.
There are three hospitals in Dongwan that are capable of performing kidney transplants: The Dongwan City People's Hospital, which is one of the AAA hospitals, the Urology Hospital Affiliated with Tongji Medical University and the Taiping People's Hospital in Dongwan City. The Taiping People's Hospital began performing organ transplants in 1999, mostly on foreigners. It has completed more than 1,000 kidney transplants, and in the first three months of 2006 has done 300 kidney transplants alone.
In late June 2004, nine kidney transplants were performed in one day at the No. 7 People's Hospital in Zhenzhou City. According to insiders, the vehicle that was dispatched to get the kidneys didn't show any hospital insignia. The hospital staff got the kidneys close to dusk and performed the transplants during the night. They did six transplants at night and three more the next day. It cost the patient only 50,000 yuan. One surgery failed, and the patient received another kidney several days later.
According to a March 4, 2006 report in the New Culture newspaper in Changchun City, the No. 2 Hospital Affiliated with Jilin University found a matching heart for Ms. Xie Baoshi from Wenzhou City within one day. The transplant surgery was performed the next day. The doctor spent only about ten minutes removing the heart from the "donor," and a group of people quickly rushed the heart to the hospital. It took about 1.5 hours for them to travel nearly 100 km. (62 mi.) When the donor heart was sent to the operating room, another group had already removed the patient's heart, and the transplant surgery was finished in 1.5 hours. The cruel fact behind this information is that a living person had his or her heart cut out several hours before Xie Baoshi received the surgery.
4.2 The Crimes of Removing Organs from Live Practitioners Using Military Means
A witness from the military medical system related that according to a document incepted by the CCP's Central Military Committee in as early as 1962, the province-level government has the authority to establish "recycling organizations" to process felons under the supervision of the military region in the province. This practice continues to this day. According the regulations in the document, "death penalty prisoners and felons convicted of serious crimes may be processed according to the developmental needs of the state or of socialism." During the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the most revolutionary way to process these prisoners was to use their bodies for food. The second was to use them for production. According to the witness, a 1984 amendment made it legal to harvest organs from felons. The police and judicial departments either directly perform organ harvests on living prisoners and cremate their bodies, or they injure the prisoners in a show execution before they perform organ harvests on the injured prisoners, followed by cremation. Since 1992 such a practice has become public. Due to the development of many related businesses, human bodies, living or dead, have become profitable raw materials for production.
The witness also revealed, "The Chinese Communist Party has openly declared Falun Gong to be 'class enemies' and instructed to handle them in any economically beneficial manner without having to report to higher authorities. In other words, Falun Gong practitioners, like many felons in China, are no longer regarded as human beings, but as raw materials for commercial products. They have become commodities."
On April 30, 2006, the witness within the military medical system again revealed the CCP's crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners through military means. Some of the internal information is stated below:
"The core management system in China for the organ transplants and harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners is from the military. The military supervising and managing is carried out by the related military personnel or organizations authorized by the CCP Military Commission. The related information is classified as military secrets. The military supervising and managing personnel have the right to arrest, detain, or execute any doctors, police, paramilitary police, or research staff who leak the secrets to the outside. The military personnel have clearance from the CCP Military Commission. Many military facilities are the true concentration camps."
"According to the regime, all of the organ donors are voluntary from the official channel. Falun Gong practitioners and other detainees are held using their real names, but when it comes to organ transplants, fake names are used. In other words, a false identity is created for each person. However, all of the person's information is complete, and a voluntary transplant organ donation form is signed (with a faked signature). I have encountered over 60,000 of these documents with falsified signatures. All of them say that the individual voluntarily agrees to certain organ transplant (including heart) and will be responsible for all of the consequences. Many of the signatures are the same person's handwriting. These documents are kept for 18 months and must be destroyed at the end of 18 months. The documents are kept at the provincial-level military regions. Reviewing these documents would require permission from the residing special commissioner from the CCP Central Committee."
"Many people pay a lot of attention to regime-announced transplant statistics. Actually, 'underground' organ transplants are many times that of the number publicized by the regime. For example, if the government says that there are 30,000 cases a year, then the real number is about 110,000. There is an abundance of organ sources, and this is the fundamental reason why the prices for organ transplants have decreased rapidly. Due to the abundance of organ sources, many hospitals with a military background, while reporting some transplants to the central government and the public, are actually conducting a large number of organ transplants secretly."
"As I said before, in the eyes of these people [who are doing the surgeries], the people whose organs are being removed are no longer regarded human, but animals. When doing it for the first or second time, some of them feel shaky and nervous. But after thousands of operations, everything is changed. They become numb about extracting organs from living people and cremating live people."
"In China, there are also a large number of live people being exported. In other words, the Chinese people that meet certain physical criteria are exported overseas as products through a network, and they are accompanied by fabricated "voluntary" consent forms. The organ transplants are done overseas, and the bodies of the transplant sources are also destroyed. In many countries there are Chinese-operated agencies that handle the bodies after organ transplants from live people take place. Many Chinese embassies and consulates are also involved. I know that more than 940 people were exported in 2005. For all exported products related with the living human bodies, the output value from China ranks in first place. There is actually a large global network of organ harvesting and transplants, and the transactions are centered in China. Since 2000, more than 850f the world's organ transplants have been done in China. The above data is from parts of the reporting document of the Military Commission. A few people were promoted to generals for outstanding 'accomplishments' in this area."
This probably explains why provincial and city military hospitals and armed police hospitals performed large numbers of organ transplant surgeries, although they are not affiliated with prisons and have no access to executed prisoners' organs.
Below are some results from the investigation conducted by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong:
Nanjing Military Zone General Hospital, Shenyang Military Zone General Hospital, Shandong Army General Hospital, Fujian Military Zone General Hospital and many other military-affiliated hospitals all claimed that they performed many such transplant surgeries. Doctors at the Fujian Military Zone General Hospital said the number of organ transplant surgeries they performed in the past two to three years is No. 2 or No. 3 in China.
According to policies at Beijing's 301 Hospital, or the China PLC General Hospital that treats high-ranking CCP officials including provincial governors, the source of donor organs is a secret, and can't be talked about. If a doctor leaks the organ source to the patient's family he would be disqualified from performing the surgery.
The investigators phoned Chengdu Air Force Hospital for three continuous days after April 28. The doctors at the hospitals admitted that they have organs from young and healthy Falun Gong practitioners. Chief Li Honghui at the Kidney Transplant Department of the No. 2 Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University said that the center performs over 100 transplants yearly, but recently the donor bank in Beijing has been shrinking, so two months ago he was transferred to a local air force hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province where there was an abundance of kidney sources to assist with kidney transplants. The Tianjin Armed Police General Hospital didn't carry out transplant surgeries, but since Falun Gong practitioners' organs became available in 2000 and there was a need to perform large numbers of transplant surgeries, experienced doctors were transferred there from the Shanxi Armed Police General Hospital to assist with the transplants.
The staff at an air force hospital in Xinjiang Province said their donors are men between the ages of 20 and 30. There is an abundance of donor organs in Xinjiang Province. Patients who couldn't get kidneys in Beijing and Shanghai were sent to Xinjiang to receive the surgery. Some military hospitals received lots of organs while intermediaries monopolized some organs. The military hospital in Yunnan Province performed selective surgeries because the kidney source is a monopoly.
Conclusion
Just as was stated on the website of the Oriental Organ Transplant Center in Tianjin City at www.ootc.net, "So many transplantation operations are owing to the support of the Chinese government. The Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuratorate, Police, Judiciary, and the Department of Health and Civil Administration have enacted a law together to make sure that the government supports organ donations. This is unique in the world."
The CCP used tremendous financial interests as bait, and enticed the military, the armed police, the general police, the judiciary, the government officials on various levels, the health systems officials, and the medical staff and organ-selling intermediaries into this inhumane national crime.
During the past seven years, faced with the horrors of state terrorism, Falun Gong practitioners have endured tremendous tribulations and safeguarded their belief with perseverance. They have peacefully and rationally opposed the persecution and clarified the truth, and they have awakened people's conscience with sincerity and compassion. More and more people have learned the truth about Falun Gong and bravely stepped forward to expose the evil nature of this persecution. These people sided with conscience and justice in the battle between good and evil, choosing a bright future for themselves.
People are abandoning this Party that enrages gods and man alike. More than ten million Chinese people have awakened and have voluntarily and courageously published their announcements that they have withdrawn from the CCP and its related organizations. The CCP's destruction is imminent.
Observers point out that by upholding their noble belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and exposing and stopping this evil persecution, Falun Gong practitioners are stopping the CCP's evil specter from poisoning the minds and destroying mankind, and in doing so are creating a future for mankind.
Category: Organ Harvesting
