An open letter to the New York Times
Dear New York Times,
My name is Dr. Wang Zhiyuan. I’m the Director of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG). I’m writing to express my deep concern regarding the accuracy of your recent article titled, “How a Persecuted Religious Group Grew Into a Global Movement,” published on August 16, 2024.
The article presents a portrayal of Falun Gong that closely mirrors the narrative promoted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since the onset of the persecution 25 years ago. It is not my intention to criticize your publication; rather, I seek to provide clarifications and additional information to ensure that your readers receive a comprehensive understanding of the situation.
Since January 20, 2003, WOIPFG has been conducting a comprehensive and systematic investigation into the allegations of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. Our findings, based on an extensive body of evidence, indicate that these practices are ongoing and represent egregious violations of human rights. As of October 2023, 866 investigative recordings and over 4,000 pieces of evidence have been published, including 66 recordings that directly implicate Chinese hospitals in the live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.
I would be grateful for the opportunity to present these findings to you and your readers. I believe that a comprehensive examination of the facts is essential for a fair and accurate representation of this issue. Should you have any questions or wish to review our evidence, please feel free to contact me at WOIPFG1@upholdjustice.org
Regards,
Dr. Wang Zhiyuan
Director
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
August 22, 2024
P.O. Box 84, New York, NY 10116, U.S.A.
Tel: +1-518-869-2352; Fax: +1-347-402-1444
http://www.upholdjustice.org/, http://www.zhuichaguoji.org
Actual conversations from those involved in live organ harvesting crime
Case One - The Crime Victim Speaks
Mrs. Zhang Xiuqin, 46 years old, was a female Falun Gong practitioner living in northeast China. She was tortured and raped for her belief. In April 2019, she was taken to the Infectious Disease Department of the PLA 211 Hospital (Harbin, Heilongjiang Province). Only one of her kidneys was extracted. Her other organs were damaged from beating and were not suitable for transplant. She was presumed dead and left alone in the operating room. When a medical staff, not connected to the crime, came to do the cleanup, Mrs. Zhang woke up and asked for help disclosing the crime. That person was moved by her bravery and agreed to record her words. The victim died afterward. Why was she taken to the infectious disease department? Because victims’ remains were treated as infectious material and would be destroyed completely.
The following are her final words:
▪ “Please remember, I am one of the Falun Gong practitioners murdered through live organ harvesting. My name is Zhang Xiuqin. They took me here this morning and removed one of my kidneys by force. I’m still alive now. This is the live organ harvesting crime that the CCP is afraid to admit.”
▪ “A few dozen of us were detained together. One after another was taken out. Nobody knows where they were taken to. Over the years, countless Falun Gong practitioners’ organs have been harvested while they’re conscious.”
▪ “Please help stop the barbaric, inhumane crime as soon as possible! Please don’t let the evil continue! Please help end the torture and murder of innocent people who have beliefs! I hope my death will awaken those who still have conscience.”
Case Two - The Criminal Suspect Speaks
In January 2020, when an undercover investigator asked Dr. Li Guowei from Xijing Hospital at Xi’an City if he could find a kidney from a Falun Gong practitioner, the doctor responded, “I understand what you mean”. Soon after he heard, the investigator was going to give him one million Yuan (~ $153,000) as a “good faith” payment, he promised to find a high-quality organ from a living person as young as 15 to 20 years old. The doctor even offered to take the undercover investigator to the hospital’s bedside for verification. Finally, the doctor admitted Falun Gong practitioners’ organs were specifically called high quality organs without disease, to conceal the crime.
The following are the criminal’s description of organ “donors”:
♦ “People under 30 years of age don’t have primary illnesses. We are talking about 30-year-olds. If you’re lucky, we may find someone in his 20s, or younger than 20– between 15 and 20 years old. This is all possible. It all depends on your luck.”
♦ “In fact, we don’t say that they are from Falun Gong (practitioners). They are high-quality organs without primary illness.”
♦ “High quality kidneys are those from young people under 30 years old. They (hospital doctors) will do preoperative check-ups on these people, like ultrasound and kidney function tests (to make sure they’re healthy). The so-called Falun Gong kidney you’re looking for actually meets these two criteria (Young and healthy).”
♦ “Technically, the high-quality kidney is the same as the Falun Gong’s organs you’re talking about. I understand what you mean.”
This is his final admission:
Investigator: “You’re in China and you can’t openly say you use Falun Gong practitioners’ organs to do surgeries. In an alternative way, you say it is a high-quality type without primary illness.”
Dr. Li Guowei: “Right, right. That’s the way to say it. It’s the correct way to say it!”
Case Three – The Crime Witness Speaks
This is the first testimony we obtained from a person who was present at the live organ harvesting crime scene. The whistleblower was a former military police officer who was assigned to guard the crime scene on April 9, 2002 at a psychiatric hospital northeast of China. He was so furious about what the two military doctors had done to the female Falun Gong practitioner that he yelled at the scene, “Are you still human?” His experience left him with a great deal of mental distress. 7 years later, in December 2009, he contacted overseas Falun Gong practitioners to disclose the crime. He knew his action would put him at tremendous risk but hoped he could encourage others to stand up to tell the truth.
The female Falun Gong practitioner, a school teacher, was arrested for her belief and was beaten and raped during her detainment. She was taken to a psychiatric hospital where two military doctors extracted her organs without using any aesthetics, while she was still conscious.
The following are the witness’s description of the atrocity:
▪ “After the scalpel, the scalpel stabbed her in the chest, the blood was squirting and splattering out…the blood was squirting and splattering out. It was not (flowing out)…”
▪ “They didn’t give her any anesthesia. When they slit her chest with a scalpel, their hands did not shake at all.”
▪ “She erupted with a howling sound when they cut her open…that woman shouted, ‘Falun Dafa is great’.”
▪ “They took her heart out first, and then extracted her kidneys. When they cut the blood vessels around her heart with scissors, she was convulsing with a horrifying sound…”
▪ “What they are doing is a closely guarded secret. Only two or three people secure the site, which protects the military doctors’ safety when they harvest organs.”
Case Four – The Organ Recipient’s Friend Speaks
In June 20, 2022, Mr. Ushio Sugawara (Japanese) disclosed that, back in 2007, when he was still with the Sixth Yamaguchi-Gumi gang, his friend’s brother needed human albumin for his liver transplant in Beijing. He purchased it in Japan and delivered it to Beijing. When he visited the patient the day before his surgery, an organ coordinator informed him the “donor” was right next door and was a 21 years old Falun Gong practitioner; the tendons in his hands and feet were cut to prevent his escape. It’s also done to keep the victim from curling up tightly in fear and pain and possibly damaging the target organs.
It only took one month for the Beijing Armed Police General Hospital to find a matching organ for the Japanese patient.
During Mr. Ushio Sugawara’s visit to the patient, he also saw patients from other countries to have transplant surgeries there. This is evidence of organ transplant tourism that happened after 1999. The high availability of organs, short wait times for organ transplants, and relatively inexpensive organs for sale attracted international patients. The Phoenix Weekly from Hong Kong discussed the issue in November 2013. The article “The Veiled Reality of the Human Organ Trade in China” said: “In the past decade, traveling to China for organ transplants has become increasingly popular. In China, organs seem to be available all the time with very little wait time needed; the matching procedures are done quickly.”
Case Five – The Organ Transplant Broker Speaks
Mr. Chen Qiang, a kidney broker of the 307th Hospital (Beijing) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. April 10, 2007, he admitted that he trafficked Falun Gong practitioners’ organs for transplant surgeries. His higher-ups would provide documents to prove an organ was from a Falun Gong practitioner. Also, he promised that the undercover investigator could look and verify the “donor” was alive before killing him.
Mr. Chen said Falun Gong practitioners were transported from Beijing to other cities’ prisons and were coded if they didn’t provide their names. Back then, if Falun Gong practitioners refused to renounce their beliefs, not only they lost their jobs, but their family members and supervisors would lose jobs as well. What’s more, their children were discriminated against and even not allowed schooling. In order to avoid implicating others, many Falun Dafa practitioners refused to give their names upon arrest.
Because of this, there were countless untraceable Falun Gong practitioners in China. This would have made them the ideal group from which to harvest organs.
Mr. Chen stated the business was running through a network. He was connected to top government officials and had people in different departments from military, public security, and medical systems. This is the first time we got to how Falun Gong practitioners’ organs were trafficked in China.
Please click the link below to access the complete conversations
Report on Live Organ Harvesting Crimes in China
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/657
WOIPFG has confirmed through its investigation, with irrefutable evidence, that the Chinese communist regime has committed mass organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners, constituting a state crime of genocide.
As of October 2023, WOIPFG has publicly released 866 audio recordings of its investigation and more than 4,000 pieces of evidence. Among them, there are 66 audio recordings that clearly acknowledge or directly prove the organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners. They include:
Five members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, one vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, members of the Political Bureau, the Minister of National Defense, and the Minister of Health of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army; many people have testified that Jiang Zemin, the leader of the Communist Party of China, ordered the organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners; Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, clearly stated that Zhou Yongkang was in charge of the organ harvesting; Zhang Gaoli, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, promised Jiang Zemin's secretary on the phone that everything must be done to stop efforts to hold Jiang Zemin accountable for the crime of ordering the organ harvesting of millions of living Falun Gong practitioners; there are also 45 presidents, directors, and chief surgeons of 41 organ transplant hospitals (transplant centers); and in the investigation cases in the past three years, there are still Falun Gong practitioners as donors. Multiple evidences prove that the crime of organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners has been going on. 891 organ transplant hospitals (transplant centers) and 9,519 practicing transplant doctors are suspected of participating in organ harvesting, etc.
The Chinese communist regime’s organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners is a crime that destroys humanity. "Live organ harvesting" has brought about the complete collapse of society's moral foundation and judicial system.
For the above cases, we possess evidence for them. If you are interested in investigating and discussing the truth about live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, we can provide the evidence to you.
In order to not mislead the public, and to prevent the loss of credibility for the New York Times, we recommend that your paper of record take down the incorrect report. Or else people will say the New York Times is acting as a mouth for the CCP authorities. This is being responsible to the truth.
For more information, please refer to:
IRONCLAD IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE (E-Book) I
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/534
IRONCLAD IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE (E-Book) II
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/535
2023 Report of WOIPFG’s Investigation into CCP’s Ongoing Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/652
