Bloody Harvest: Stealing Organs For Profit

Bloody Harvest: Stealing Organs For Profit
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OTTAWA—Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for their organs is a meticulous account of true events that reads like a horror story.


A portent of that horror comes early in the book: “The allegations, if true, represented a disgusting form of evil which, despite all the depravities humanity has seen, was new to this planet.”

In May 2006, coauthors David Matas and David Kilgour received a letter from the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) asking them to investigate allegations that imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners were being used to supply vital organs for the transplant tourist industry in China.

With no eyewitness testimony available and unable to enter China, the authors used independently verified sources of evidence and a deductive reasoning model to conclude that the allegations were indeed true.

The result of their investigations was a preliminary report released in July 2006. A second report, with new substantiations, was released in January 2007. Both were published on the Internet.

The newly released book is larger than the reports and contains previously unpublished materials. It is presented in two sections: the evidence that led to the authors’ conclusions, and the responses to the reports, followed by some suggestions on how to stop the practice of using living organ donors in China.

Kilgour and Matas concluded that “A set of peaceful, healthful exercises with a spiritual foundation was made illegal in 1999 by the Communist Party because of fear it might threaten the Party’s dominance, and it appears that many human beings engaged in these exercises have been in effect executed for their organs by medical practitioners.”

Matas, a human rights lawyer who received the Order of Canada for his human rights work, and Kilgour, a former crown prosecutor and former Member of Parliament, have produced a damning body of evidence that could shake the world press and various governments from their complacency regarding the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.

CIPFG chair Clive Ansley said he’s delighted with the release of Bloody Harvest and hopes the book “sparks a lot more public debate than we’ve had up ‘til now.”

He said the mainstream press has been “inexcusably derelict” by not reporting on the illicit harvesting of Falun Gong organs in China.

“The knowledge is there, people in the media know it, but they’ve done almost nothing about publicizing it, which means that a very significant percentage of the population in North America particularly remains unaware of the fact that we’re watching another holocaust essentially.”

Starting with the knowledge that 1999—the year in which the number of organ transplants performed in China began rising dramatically—was the same year that the persecution of Falun Gong started, the authors uncovered various supporting facts that explain why the abhorrent organ harvesting started and how it is carried out. Some of the many factors described in the book include:



* No system for voluntary donation exists in China, and a societal aversion to the practice means organ donors are rare.
* Numerous testimonials of previous Falun Gong prisoners detailing how they were routinely blood tested and examined while regular criminal inmates were not.
* Testimonials of people who traveled to China to receive transplants and the impossibly short wait time for a matched organ to become available.
* Websites advertising living organ donors whose renal function is verified before the operation.
* The huge number of transplants performed annually cannot be accounted for using executed prisoners or brain-dead patients.

The involvement of military physicians and hospitals trafficking in human body parts coupled with the systematic persecution of Falun Gong adherents resulted in large numbers of organ transplants occurring without any record of the source of the donors.

“A full explanation of the source of all organ transplants would disprove the allegation,” wrote the authors.

“If the source of all organ transplants could be traced, whether to willing donors or executed prisoners, then the allegation concerning the Falun Gong would be disproved. But such tracing is impossible.”

The part played by the western world in enabling the harvesting of organs from living human beings is also discussed, including the role of economic considerations as businesses and governments try to please the communist leaders so they can maintain trade relations and make money in China.

The authors make a case for continued human rights advocacy in China and explain that although the Chinese regime can’t be forced to change its principles, it can be confronted with the facts. The facts make the regime look bad, and China fears loss of face above all else.


To learn more go to: http://organharvestinvestigation.net/ or read the book Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong Practitioners For Their Organs

Part 1: April 25th, 1999 - The Protest that Changed China

Ten years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside China's central leadership compound in Beijing. They had come to appeal at China's central appeals office--to appeal for practitioners who had been abused in the city of Tianjin, for their books, which had been banned, and for practitioners all over the country who were being harassed and investigated by the police.

They were met by the Chinese premier, and the arrested practitioners were released. It seemed like the appeal had been successful, But in reality, time was running out, and the brutal crackdown was getting closer and closer.

Part 2: May 13th - Soul of a Nation

After ten years of often-brutal persecution by China’s Communist authorities, the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong remains a visible presence worldwide. It’s still practiced, although often in secret, by millions in the Mainland. What makes these people so committed to their beliefs? In “A Decade of Courage: Soul of a Nation” we look at the rapidly changing, post-Cultural Revolution China in which the practice emerged. We hear the stories of people who came to Falun Gong for various reasons, but who say their lives have been changed as a result. And, ten years after the Communist ban, on the tenth year that practitioners worldwide celebrate May 13th as “World Falun Dafa Day”, and 17 years after the practice was first spread on May 13th, 1992, we ask what this practice has meant for today’s China, and what it will mean for China’s future.

Part 3: June 10th, 1999 - China's Hidden Holocaust

Thursday, June 10th, 1999. To most of us, it's like any other day. But ten years ago today, the Chinese communist regime created a Gestapo-style secret police agency, with the mission to destroy Falun Gong--by any means necessary.


With the tools of torture and the resources of the world's most populous nation, then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin thought he could crush Falun Gong in three months. But as history played out, many Falun Gong practitioners were able to not only endure the brutality of the persecution, but turn the tables on the Chinese government by exposing their persecution around the world. This is their story.

Part 4: July 20th - China's Deadly Harvest

Numbers are symbols; they represent anything and everything. But they also hide what they represent, like a mask. In ten years, the names of over 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been collected; they are the names of people who have been killed through torture by Chinese authorities. But, how many more people simply disappeared after the persecution began? And what is the connection to China's booming organ transplant industry. Though the truth is still unknown, the evidence points to a disturbing conclusion about the new China, and of what the rest of the world is willing to ignore. In this original investigation, NTD attempts to discover: 'what happened to the people who disappeared?'