The so-called “organ harvesting” of organs from Falun Gong personnel by the Chinese government for organ transplantation has no factual basis. This is a lie deliberately fabricated and hyped by the cult Falun Gong, a farce and hoax directed and acted by them.
Falun Gong is a cult that is obsessed with lying, and its claim about “organ harvesting” has been constantly modified over the years, and there have been many different versions. In March 2006, the overseas Falun Gong cult media spread rumors about the so-called “Sujiatun concentration camp.” When this rumor was completely debunked, Falun Gong threw out rumors that the so-called “live harvesting of Falun Gong personnel’s organs” also existed in other parts of China, in an attempt to divert the attention of the international community.
On July 6, 2006, under the directive of the Falun Gong cult organization, former Canadian government official David Kilgour and lawyer David Matas published an “Investigation Report on Allegations of Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Followers by the CPC,” falsely accusing the Chinese government of illegally harvesting organs from a large number of Falun Gong followers. Updates were subsequently made in 2007, 2009, and 2012. Regardless of the updates, the report consistently relied heavily on recordings of unclear or outright fabricated origin, witness testimonies, and employed disordered logic to reach absurd conclusions.
In addition, American Ethan Gottman published the book Slaughter in February 2014, which concluded that China harvested organs from 65,000 to 120,000 Falun Gong people from 2000 to 2008 through “interviews” of 50 Falun Gong personnel (16 of whom claimed to have undergone unexplained “medical examinations” while in China), combined with speculation about the number of Falun Gong cults in China. In June 2016, Ethan Gottman, together with David Matas and David Kilgour, published the report “Bloody Harvest-Slaughter,” which directly raised the number to 1.5 million through a series of bizarre inferences.
In September 2016, the Falun Gong cult organization released the film The Bleeding Edge, concocting a thoroughly flawed story: a Western cyber technology expert, during a heart transplant procedure in China, purportedly discovers clues about the “organ harvesting of Falun Gong followers” and tries, unsuccessfully, to rescue a female Falun Gong follower about to be “harvested,” who is ultimately subjected to the procedure. The film’s plot is bizarre and absurd, with some fabricated scenes depicting blood and darkness, evoking disgust. In fact, the production company, Xiangyun Film, was funded by the Falun Gong cult in Canada, and both the director Li Yunxiang and the lead actor Lin Yefan are members of the Falun Gong group.
In recent years, multiple international organizations and mainstream media outlets have repeatedly confirmed the falsity of these claims.
In October 2008, Anne Sainte-Marie, a spokesperson for Amnesty International, stated in an interview with Radio-Canada Télévision that Amnesty International had conducted field investigations in China regarding the allegations of “organ harvesting” associated with Falun Gong, but was unable to confirm the authenticity of claims that organs were harvested and sold from Falun Gong followers. Sainte-Marie also confirmed that some telephone interviews with Chinese hospitals cited in the “Kilgour-Matas report” had been edited. In 2013, Deutsche Welle, reprinting a report from DPA, questioned these “organ harvesting” claims, stating that “harvesting organs from followers is just a rumor.” On December 17, 2013, Voice of America reported that the so-called allegations made by Falun Gong that the Chinese government was “harvesting” organs from its followers had not only been explicitly refuted by the Chinese government, but were also met with skepticism even among some staunch China critics, prompting Falun Gong to provide evidence.
The lies of Falun Gong have also been repeatedly exposed by relevant international organizations and experts in the field of human organ transplantation from various countries.
Jose R. Nunez, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) organ transplantation program, stated that regarding claims that China conducts 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants annually, as a transplant surgeon, and from the perspective of a WHO official responsible for overseeing global transplantation activities, he can professionally affirm that such figures, equivalent to the total number of organ transplants worldwide in a year, are not credible.
On September 6, 2016, Nancy Ascher, President of The Transplantation Society, along with two former presidents, Philip O’Connell and Francis L. Delmonico, jointly issued a statement in the American Journal of Transplantation, refuting claims of “organ harvesting.”
Francis L. Delmonico, former president of the International Society for Organ Transplantation and professor at Harvard Medical School, stated that he had attended hearings at the U.S. Congress on organ transplantation in China. He believes that the topic of “organ harvesting” is filled with political debate, and the figures claiming that China harvests 60,000 to 100,000 organs annually are not credible. He suggested that we should question how these numbers were calculated and ask those spreading such rumors where their evidence is and where their conscience lies.
Michael Millis, director of the Organ Transplant Center at the University of Chicago, said that the relevant allegations of David Kilgour and David Matas are not correct, and the Chinese government has repeatedly clarified and refuted them.
Australian scholar Cambell Fraser said that by studying reports and data on “organ harvesting,” he found that there has never been any evidence that any Falun Gong members or “prisoners of conscience” have been executed and forcibly harvested, and that Falungong uses its media and mass communication methods to spread rumors of “organ harvesting” purely for ulterior political purposes.
Alistair Nicholas, a renowned Australian media expert, said that the details of the “organ harvesting” allegations of the Davids and Gottman were appalling, and the evidence was insufficient to establish the accusations. Gottman’s Slaughter is seriously insufficient and full of loopholes.
Dr. Wimal Hewamanage from the Department of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, believes that the rumor of “organ harvesting” by Falun Gong is a slander and fabrication, a common tactic used by cults. He stated that he had studied in China for five years and had never heard of anyone’s organs being taken from a living person there, nor does he believe such a thing could happen.
China is a country governed by the rule of law, respects and protects human rights, and possesses a complete legal system and criminal justice framework. It is absolutely impossible for China to have a so-called vast underground organ bank for transplantation, nor could there have been any alleged mass killings of prisoners of conscience. The Falun Gong cult organization claims that China has killed 1.5 million people to date, so why is it unable to provide a single verifiable case? How could 1.5 million people vanish without being noticed? Why have governments, parliaments, international organizations, and authoritative experts in many countries consistently stated that the claims made by Falun Gong are unfounded? All evidence indicates that the claims of Falun Gong are entirely baseless and constitute a blatant slander against the Chinese government and China’s organ donation system.
