Last
year, both the Trump and Biden administrations determined that the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) is waging genocide against Uyghurs and other mostly
ethnic Muslim communities in Xinjiang. This is a human-rights watershed, given
that this atrocity is ongoing and authored by a powerful, sitting government
that vehemently denies and covers up the charge. With this precedent and using
similar sources of evidence, a second CCP genocide — one
against the spiritual meditation group Falun Gong — is long overdue for
recognition.
Shocking reports of 1 million
Uyghurs in indoctrination camps (officially called “vocational training
centers”) are highlighted by the media. Systematic torture, rape, and forced
labor are also reported. Egregious though these are, the Uyghur genocide
designation pivoted on other atrocities. As Secretary of State Pompeo explained
last January in the Wall Street Journal, evidence
showing forced medical procedures to stop Uyghur births was “key” to State
Department’s genocide determination. A 2020 Jamestown Foundation study of Chinese data
by scholar Adrian Zenz revealed a disparate plummeting of the Uyghurs’
population-growth rate, corroborating testimony that the CCP forced many Uyghur women to undergo abortions,
sterilizations, and IUD procedures. Last month, a
U.K.-based Uyghur Tribunal of independent experts reaffirmed Pompeo’s reasoning
in its own genocide judgment, under U.N. Genocide Convention criteria requiring
intentional, physical destruction of all or part of a group.
Regarding
Falun Gong, genocide is signaled by several rigorous reports establishing that
large numbers of its detained practitioners have been forcibly subject to
medical procedures that inevitably kill them. These reports show that, for 20
years, after a declared government intent to eliminate the group, the CCP has targeted Falun Gong detainees for involuntary
organ harvesting, in addition to mass internment, disappearance, and torture.
This means that victims are either killed while or shortly before their hearts,
livers, lungs, and kidneys are surgically excised to be sold in what Beijing
boasts is the world’s largest organ-transplant market. A critical
new finding from
U.N. experts strengthens this case for genocide.
Falun
Gong had 70 million practitioners, by Beijing estimates, when, in 1999, PRC president and CCP general
secretary Jiang Zemin directed that they be “ eliminated. ” The CCP immediately launched a fierce campaign against the
group, maintaining, the State
Department confirms,
“an extralegal, party-run security apparatus to eliminate the Falun Gong
movement.” The State Department reports that, in China, Falun Gong
practitioners now number only between between 7 million and 20 million.
The
extensive study “Bloody Harvest” and its updates, by former Canadian government
minister David Kilgour and experts David Matas and Ethan Gutmann, conclude that
“The source for most of [China’s] massive volume of organs for transplants is
the killing of innocents: Uyghurs, Tibetans, House Christians and primarily,
practitioners of the spiritually based set of exercises Falun Gong.” Evidence
that Falun Gong practitioners are not only among the victims of an involuntary
organ-harvesting industry but likely have been its main victims over the past
two decades was found in two assessments in 2020, one by Matthew Robertson of
the Victims
of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), versions of which
were published by the Jamestown Foundation, and the other by the China Tribunal, an independent
panel led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, who also headed the Uyghur Tribunal.
China’s
hospitals schedule transplants on demand, within days or weeks, documents
“ Bloody
Harvest, ”
while the NIH records that the median
wait for kidneys in the United States is four years. An archived version from
2004 of a private, China-based transplant company’s
website brazenly advertised living donors
to foreign patients: “In China we carry out living donor kidney transplants. It
is completely different from the deceased body [corpse] kidney transplants you
hear about in Japanese hospitals and dialysis centres.”
While
China claims that it ended such abuses in organ sourcing in 2015, including the
use of death-row prisoners, and established a voluntary donor system instead,
the China
Tribunal found
that official Chinese transplant statistics are “falsified.” It observed an
“incomprehensible gap” between “credible” assessments, based on hospital data,
of some 60,000 to 90,000 transplants annually, and the 5,146 eligible organ
donors reported in one year by the PRC. The Tribunal and
other studies conclude that live Falun Gong detainee sources helped fill this
gap. The common media citation of 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners murdered for
their organs, it should be noted, is from Ethan Gutmann’s research covering
2000-2008 alone.
Further
evidence includes testimony that Falun Gong detainees are commonly subject to
prison medical examinations, whose results are entered into government
databases for organ allocations by the hospital system. The Jamestown
Foundation details
an overlap between medical-transplant personnel and CCP cadres in the anti–Falun Gong campaign, and close
organ-transplant coordination among the CCP, People’s Liberation
Army, prisons, and hospitals.
Two
years ago, the China Tribunal concluded that the CCP is guilty of a
“crime against humanity” in organ harvesting, but it lacked evidence of intent
to consider the CCP guilty of genocide. It raised
the possibility that Falun Gong deaths from organ harvesting, which it
unequivocally found, could simply be collateral damage in an effort solely
intended for profit. More recent information from a respected source lays that
theory to rest, at least as far as it concerns the CCP.
Namely, documentation by a dozen United Nations human-rights experts reveals
that Falun Gong and other religious prisoners of conscience are exclusively targeted for organ harvesting, while
other detainees with equally valuable organs are not specific sources. The
CCP’s singular targeting of detained religious minorities, in particular Falun
Gong, indicates profit is not its main motive (though money may be the motive
for medical personnel involved).
A
joint statement last June by
the twelve independent human-rights experts, appointed by the U.N. to report on
such issues as torture, detention, religious freedom, women’s rights, and
minorities, declares that they are “extremely alarmed” by “credible
information” of “’organ harvesting’, against Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs,
Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.” This information
included reports that these groups are unwillingly subjects of medical exams,
whose results are “registered in a database of living organ sources that
facilitates organ allocation.” Significantly, among the “credible” information
they documented is that “other prisoners are not required to undergo such
examinations.” This means that religious minorities are discriminatorily
selected for medical execution, as a method of repression, similar to
Xinjiang’s Muslims being singled out for medical birth-prevention procedures.
The dots can now be connected between the CCP’s directive to “eliminate” Falun
Gong and the finding by the China Tribunal and other experts that large numbers
of Falun Gong detainees have been selected by CCP and state
officials to be sent to certain death close to or on transplant operating
tables. This evidences genocidal intent.
CCP manipulation of
the World Health Organization, observed during the pandemic, has helped cover
up this horror as well. In 2020, scholar Matthew Robertson found that WHO’s
advisory anti-organ-trafficking task force, headed by Harvard University
transplant surgeon Francis Delmonico, was initiated by CCP Central Committee member Huang Jiefu to be
influenced by him as one of the prominent members on the “independent” task
force. A government release confirms that
it was Huang “[o]n behalf of China [who] proposed to establish a WHO task force.” Unsurprisingly, the task force
“dismissed out of hand” the charges of organ harvesting, reported Robertson.
American
policy-makers show new willingness to recognize CCP repression.
They should clearly condemn this persecution against Falun Gong and declare it
a genocide. Had this been done earlier, the Uyghur genocide might never have
happened. Notwithstanding, the Beijing Olympics gives warrant to special
scrutiny of this horrifying and continuing chapter of the CCP’s human-rights
record.
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CHINA: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE
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Kidney Disease Statistics
for the United States
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease
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