Falun Gong is a religious movement in China that involves the practice of qigong – a mix of meditation, energy exercises and regulated breathing – combined with the practice of a moral philosophy, with the ultimate goal of achieving spiritual enlightenment. Falun Gong, with an estimated range of seven to 20 million adherents, is a Buddhist-like spiritual group that practices compassion, truthfulness. patience and tolerance.
In one of my trips to China, I observed from my high-rise hotel room local citizens practicing qigong exercises in the village courtyard. According to Chinese authorities, Falun Gong is evil because it demonstrates cult behavior, instills mind control in individuals, spreads heretical ideas and promotes methods for accumulating wealth – all while allegedly endangering Chinese society.
In 1999 the Chinese Communist Party decided they had had enough. They organized a secret police unit in June that year similar to the German Gestapo of World War II. I can’t pronounce the Chinese name for this police unit. Informally it became known as the 610 Office.
The assignment of 610 Office is to persecute and eradicate Falun Gong. And as the late radio commentator Paul Harvey would say, “Here is the rest of the story.”
In 2000 a Chinese medical doctor, Dr. Zang Yunjin, who trained in the U.S., returned to China to set up an organ transplant program in a national hospital system. His specialty was liver transplants. Chinese hospitals went from rarely doing liver transplants to rocketing near the top in the world for liver transplants.
Zang became director of organ donation and transplantation for one of the major medical schools, Qingdao University Medical School, and director of the Qingdao University Hospital. He became internationally known as a distinguished organ transplant expert at a number of transplantation hospitals across China. From the time he returned to China until 2019, Zang performed over 2,600 liver transplants!1
In the U.S. and elsewhere around the globe, there is a major shortage of donor livers for transplantation with a waiting list the proverbial mile long. Naturally, you have to wonder how Dr. Zang and his colleagues could complete so many transplants given the international shortage of liver donors.
The answer lies in one of the most reprehensible and cruel acts against humanity that I can imagine.
Remember the “gestapo-esque” police unit, 610 Office? They have been arresting peaceful practitioners of Falun Gong and forcibly sending them to liver transplant hospitals as liver donors for severely ill liver-disease patients.
Zang and his team removed the livers from these “dissidents.” Falun Gong believers’ healthy livers were harvested and transplanted in recipients at organ transplant hospitals all over China. It’s part of the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy for eliminating Falun Gong practitioners!
The second part of this crime is that the liver donor patients, after having their livers forcefully removed, apparently may not have been euthanized. That is, they may have been released from the hospital following their surgeries to die a cruel death on their own. This strategy was also used for patients with kidney failure. Kidney transplants were also at an all-time high. Falun Gong believers had their kidneys removed and apparently sent home without kidneys.
In 2003 the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPPG) was formed. The mission was “to investigate the conduct of all institutions, organizations and individuals involved in the persecution of the Falun Gong; no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and deep we have to search, to full closure; to exercise fundamental principles of humanity and to restore and uphold justice in society.”2
Between 2004 and 2008, Zang performed 1,600 liver extractions and at least 1,570 liver transplants at the Armed Police General Hospital. Working part-time at Beijing Youan Hospital, Zang tallied 1,001 liver transplants during the same time period, according to WOIPFG.
One of the early whistle-blowers on these practices was a former employee at Sujiatun Hospital at Shenyang City, the capital of Liaoning Province. Liaoning Province is in northeast China adjacent to North Korea. This whistle-blower divulged these atrocities in 2006. Using the pseudonym Annie, she was fortunate to have escaped capture. She now resides in the U.S.
The epilogue to this story has not yet been written, but the final chapter has. Zang committed suicide on Feb. 26, 2021. He jumped (or was pushed) out of a skyscraper window. He was 57 years old.
Apparently, dying by “suicide” has become contagious. Jiang Xusheng, 50, a professor of general surgery and liver transplantation supposedly died by suicide by slashing his own throat and abdomen in his apartment. Yeah, right! Li Leishi, 84, an internationally known kidney and transplant specialist, jumped from his high-rise apartment in Nanjing. Li Baochun, 44, also a renowned kidney transplant doctor center. Suicides or murders? Want to place a bet? No need to wager, as the Chinese aren’t ever going to tell.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_to_Investigate_the_Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
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