New Witness: There Are Dozens of Similar Concentration Camps
After the first two witnesses exposed the Sujiatun atrocities, another
witness who identified himself as "a veteran military doctor in the
General Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Region" stepped
forward to point out that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp indeed exists,
organ harvesting and cremation of bodies is done routinely there, and some
are even cremated while still alive. He stated that the Sujiatun hospital
is only one of 36 similar concentration camps. Findings from the World
Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong point to a
similar situation.
The Hospital in Sujiatun is Only One of 36 Similar Concentration Camps in
China
According to this witness from the military system, the hospital in
Sujiatun District is only one of 36 similar concentration camps across
China. At present, the majority of detained Falun Gong practitioners are
in prisons, forced labor camps and detention centers. They are transferred
elsewhere on a large scale only when needed.
This witness said that Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces imprison
the largest number of Falun Gong practitioners. The concentration camp in
Jiutai Area, Jilin Province is the 5th largest camp imprisoning Falun Gong
practitioners in China. This camp alone detains over 14,000 Falun Gong
practitioners.
Jilin Concentration Camp, Code Named 672-S, Imprisons over 120,000 People
The veteran military doctor indicated, "From the information I have access
to, the largest concentration camp is in Jilin Province. The concentration
camp code named 672-S imprisons over 120,000 people. A large number of
Falun Gong practitioners, felons and prisoners of conscience from all over
China are there, but I do not know its address."
There Were Indeed over 10,000 People Detained in the Underground
Concentration Camp of the Sujiatun District Hospital Prior to 2005 and in
Early 2005
The witness said, "In the underground concentration camp of the Sujiatun
District Hospital, there were indeed over 10,000 people kept there in
early 2005, but at the present time, the number of detainees there is
maintained at 600-750. Many detainees have been transferred to other
concentration camps."
It Takes Only One Day to Transfer 5,000 People
He continued, "You can't find much evidence even if you enter Sujiatun
District to investigate. It takes only one day to transfer 5,000 people in
a closed freight train on a special route. I have witnessed a specially
dispatched freight train transferring over 7,000 people in one trip from
Tianjin to the
Jilin area. It ran at night, guarded by the army. Everyone on the train
was handcuffed to specially designed handrails like a rotisserie
chickens."
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
(WOIPFG) Found that Many Cities Have Participated in the Crimes
After the Sujiatun atrocities were exposed, WOIPFG launched an urgent
investigation across China. Results show that the crimes of harvesting
Falun Gong practitioners' organs have happened and are still happening in
at least in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hunan, Shandong, Liaoning, and
Guangdong.
The excerpts of several investigative telephone conversations are as below.
(An Undisclosed Hospital in Guangzhou City)
Caller: How long will I have to wait for a kidney?
Doctor: About a week after you check into the hospital.
Caller: But I have to have a fresh and healthy kidney, and I want one from
a live donor. You are not going to give me a kidney from a dead person,
are you?
Doctor: Of course we will give you a high-quality kidney!
Caller: Do you have one like the ones I hear about from Falun Gong people?
Doctor: What we have in our hospital are all this kind.
(An Undisclosed Medical College in Tianjin)
Caller: The doctor said the kidney is very good and came from someone who
practices qigong. I asked what type of qigong, and he told me the man
practices Falun Gong. I heard that those who practice Falun Gong are
healthier.
Doctor: Of course. We also have kidneys from Falun Gong practitioners
here. We harvest kidneys from people who are still breathing or have a
heartbeat. So far we have had about a dozen such cases this year (2006)...
Of course, the supplier's health is a very important factor. The supplier
has to be young and healthy. Moreover, the time period where the warm
blood supply to the kidney is cut off has to be reduced to a minimum or
even to none. In this case, there was no lack of warm blood supply.
(An Undisclosed Hospital in Shandong Province)
Caller: I want a kidney from those who practice Falun Gong, one that's
totally healthy.
Doctor: Well...We will definitely have a lot of suppliers like that in
April. The number of those suppliers is gradually increasing.
Caller: Why are you going to have more in April?
Doctor: I cannot tell you that because this involves... Anyway, there is
no need to go into that. I cannot go into that with you.
The Chinese Communist Party's Top Level Leadership Agreed to Deal With
Class Enemies With Any Means
According to witness, the Chinese Communist Party has openly declared
Falun Gong to be "class enemies", turning Falun Gong practitioners into
the target of its most severe suppression. The witness said that according
to the latest decisions, the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee
agreed to treat Falun Gong practitioners as "class enemies" and to handle
them in any economically beneficial manner without having to report to
higher authorities. In other words, Falun Gong practitioners, like many
felons in China, are no longer regarded as human beings, but as raw
materials for commercial products. They have become commodities.
According to the witness from the military system, according to "the
country's regulations," the provincial government has the authority to
establish "recycling organizations" to process felons under the
supervision of the military region in the province. This practice was
established by a legal document that the Chinese Communist Party's Central
Military Committee established as early as 1962. This practice continues
to this day. According the regulations in the document, death penalty
prisoners and felons convicted of serious crimes may be processed
according to the development needs of the state or of socialism. During
the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the most extreme way to process
these prisoners was to use their bodies for food. The second was to use
them as slave labor for construction or line production work.
According to the witness, after a 1984 amendment, it became legal to
harvest organs from felons. The police and judicial departments perform
organ harvests on living prisoners before cremating their bodies.
Sometimes, they injure the prisoners in a show execution before they
perform organ harvests on the injured prisoners. They then cremate their
bodies. Since 1992, such a practice has become public. Due to the
development of many related businesses, human bodies, live or dead, have
become profitable raw materials.
Posting date: 3/30/2006
Original article date: 3/30/2006
Category: News & Media Reports
World Organization to Investigate the persecution of Falun Gong
Friday, 31 March 2006
Investigative Report of Human Organ Harvesting from Alive
Abducted Falun Gong Practitioners at the Sujiatun
Concentration Camp
(Part II)
March 30, 2006
Introduction
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong (WOIPFG) has confirmed in their investigations that the
Sujiatun District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in
Shenyang City, also known as the Liaoning Province Thrombosis
Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine
(the Thrombosis Hospital for short, below) had set up an
unlawful crematorium to burn the bodies and destroy evidence.
The existence of a huge live human organ bank in the Shenyang
City area has been verified. The live harvesting of organs for
transplants from unlawfully detained Falun Gong practitioners
were found in not only at the Sujiatun area but also at many
other places throughout Mainland China.
I. It is Confirmed Again that the Hospital Boiler at the
Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital Used as Crematorium
As an eyewitness pointed out, the Thrombosis Hospital was the
place where organs of Falun Gong practitioners were harvested
while they were still alive [1]. According to our
investigation, although a funeral parlor exist in the Sujiatun
District [2], human bodies indeed have been cremated inside
the hospital boiler. Some people involved in this gruesome
process of burning bodies have collections of rings and other
belongings from the corpses [3]. According to the 1997-issued
Interment Management Regulation from the Chinese State
Council, funeral work was managed by the civil administration
department at each level. No one is authorized to build a
crematory facility without approval [4]. The Thrombosis
Hospital dares to openly violate state regulations to cremate
human bodies using a private boiler; this implicates them for
having potentially dealt with a large number of corpses, to
hide their actions from public scrutiny.
II. A Huge Live Human Organ Bank Exists in Shenyang City
Shenyang is one of few cities in the nation where organ
transplants are performed on an extremely large scale
We have discovered that as many as ten hospitals in Shenyang
City have performed organ transplants. In 2005, 250 kidney
transplants and 70 liver transplants were reported. By January
2006, the General Hospital for the Shenyang Military Region
(whose Urology Department is the military region’s kidney
transplant center) has performed over 1,500 kidney
transplants. [5] The No. 463 Hospital of the Chinese People’s
Liberation Army (an Air Force hospital) in Shenyang City has
topped the Shenyang area in Liaoning Province in terms of the
numbers of homogeneous foreign body kidney transplants
performed. By 2005, over 600 kidney transplants and 120 liver
transplants have been performed in the No. 1 Adjunct Hospital
of the China Medical University. [6] Due to the
characteristics of the organ transplant surgeries, the
large-scale development of organ transplants could only be
feasible in area where supply is ample.
Organ Supply Sources
For traditional cultural ethics, Chinese people have always
been conservative regarding the issue of organ donations.
Thus, organ donors are rather scarce in China. According to
widely circulated international reports and witness accounts,
the customary source of transplant organs in Mainland China
were those from death-row prisoners. [7] This is an undisputed
fact in the international community. Due to the general
practice of organ transplants in various areas in China, the
organs from the death-row prisoners could only be used by
local hospitals near the execution site of the prisoners, with
a few exceptions. According to an Amnesty International
report, about 2,000 prisoners were executed annually in China,
[8] and the number of highest estimate could be as high as
10,000 per year. According to our medical experts, the donor
match of live kidney transplants between direct-related family
members is 50%, but the possibility of a complete match
between two non-family members is one out of several million.
[9] So, considering factors such as tissue type matching, even
in an incomplete match, the actual rate of utilization of
organs from death prisoners is rather low.
Applying the numbers to such a city like Shenyang, even if all
usable organs from death- row prisoners that match the tissue
type are utilized, the availability still cannot satisfy the
annual quantity needed for actual transplant operations in
that city. Yet, Wu Gang, associate professor of Organ
Transplant Department in the No. 1 Adjunct Hospital of China
Medical University stated, “At present, we have completely
sufficient kidney sources in Shenyang!” [10]
Waiting time for organ transplant
Due to the lack of readily available kidney donors, the
waiting time for a suitable kidney is lengthy. Even in the US
where the sense of public organ donation is commonplace, a
patient in the New England area usually needs to wait three to
seven years in average for a kidney transplant, where medical
institutions are abundant. According to the information from
the foreign groups who organize people to go to China for
organ transplant and results from the WOIPFG investigators, it
only takes one week to one month to have a kidney transplant
in China, including tissue type matching time. [11]
The China International Transplantation Network Assistance
Center (CITNAC) at the China Medical University in Shenyang
City guaranteed one month and no longer than two months of
waiting time for liver transplants. The waiting time to find a
proper kidney is only one week, at most one month. If a
problem arises during surgery with the provided kidney, they
will guarantee another one in less than one week. [12] Because
the kidney source for this possible emergency also need to
match tissue type of the recipient, it is almost impossible to
get a match from an executed prisoner or someone who died from
an accident. The only likely source comes from a spare organ
bank. Considering that a kidney has to be transplanted within
24 hours, supplies at the spare organ bank must come from
living people. Taking into account tissue type matching and
other factors, the truth is that a spare live human organ bank
with a quite huge cardinal number for tissue type matching and
harvesting is in operation at any time.
Providing organ transplant for foreigners
CITNAC in Shenyang City was established in 2003. Through its
website in five different languages (Japanese, Korean,
English, Russian and Chinese), the center attracts patients
around the world and claims that each year, more than 100
kidney transplants and 20 liver transplants are performed at
the center.
Since 2004, more than 100 Japanese patients received organ
transplants in Shenyang City alone. [13]
From 2003 to 2005, more than 3,000 South Korean citizens went
to China for organ transplants.
Voice of America has reported on a person in Vancouver who is
conducting international business on kidney transplant and has
arranged for many Canadian patients travelling to China for
kidney transplant surgeries.
III. Sujiatun Concentration Camp is not the only one; at least
eight provinces and cities have concentration camps for live
harvesting of human organs from abducted Falun Gong
practitioners
According to official numbers from China, from 1991 to 1998,
only 78 liver transplants were performed nationally. However,
since the year 1999 when the ban on Falun Gong started, the
number multiplied quickly, with 118 liver transplant surgeries
in 1999, 254 in 2000 and 486 in 2001. By 2001 the liver
transplant surgeries totaled 996. [14] By 2003, the number
drastically increased to over 3,000, [15] which means that the
nation-wide supplies of organs since 1999 have increased
noticeably. We showcased liver transplants as example here
because without the liver, a single organ, the donor could not
survive after the liver is removed.
Investigations from the WOIPFG has shown that organs from
Falun Gong practitioners were used for transplant in provinces
and cities such as Henan, Shandong, Shanghai, Guangzhou,
Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Hunan and Hubei, but probably
others also. Hospital staff and directly participating doctors
have expressed that they can provide Falun Gong practitioners’
organs. [16] Based on our initial investigation, we are able
to conclude that Sujiatun Concentration Camp is not the only
one where live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners
for transplant purposes took place; such type of concentration
camps exist in most part of China.
We have documented a few cases here. More details will follow
in a separate report:
Case No. 1 (an adjunct hospital of one medical university in
Hunan Province)
Doctor: The organs we chose were from young and healthy
person. We would absolutely not use those from the elderly.
Investigator: Are there any from Falun Gong practitioners?
Doctor: You should rest for sure about it. (Note: which means
“absolutely”)
Case No. 2 (a hospital in Shandong Province)
Investigator: a kidney from a person who practices Falun Gong
is disease-free; do you have any of those types…
Doctor: Umh…We have more and more such kind now, and in April
we will sure to get even more.
Investigator: Why there are more in April?
Doctor: I cannot not tell you about it, because it relates
to…it doesn’t mean…We don’t need to explain to you about it
because it cannot be explained…
Case No. 3 (a hospital in Guangzhou City)
Investigator: How long should we wait for a kidney transplant?
Doctor: If you come over, you only need to wait for about a
week.
Investigator: But the kidney for transplant should be healthy
and fresh, better from a live donor. You would not use an
organ from a dead person, right?
Doctor: We will of course use the good one!
Investigator: Are there any from people who practice Falun
Gong?
Doctor: The ones we use here are all this type.
Case No. 4 (a medical university in Tianjin City)
Investigator: The doctor said that the kidney source is very
good because the person practiced Qigong. When asked which
kind of Qiqong, the reply was Falun Gong. Is it true that
those who practice Falun Gong have better health? ...
Hospital staff: Of course, we have this kind here as well…the
organs were from persons who did still breathed or had a heart
beat. We will have some too; we have got more than ten kidneys
of such kind so far this year…Of course, the quality of the
organ supplier is a key factor, which means that the person
must be young and the time period for warm blood shortage is
very short after removal [when blood supply is insufficient
and the kidney stays at normal body temperature]; sometimes we
even don’t have this period of warm blood shortage. The kidney
of such type has never had this problem, so it must be very
good for recovery of the patient in the long run. This is for
sure…
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong
Reference:
1. The Epoch Times, March 17, 2006, “New Witness Confirms
Existence of Chinese Concentration Camp, Says Organs Removed
from Live Victims,”
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-3-17/39405.html
2. Northern Land Net, address of Sujiatun funeral parlor:
Qiansandao Gangzi Village, Shenhe Town. Direction: take
westbound bus from Nanta bus terminal toward Chenxiang;
departure every half hour. Tel: 24-89572311
3. WOIPFG investigation record: SJT_X_0004
4. Interment Management Regulation from the Civil
Administration Department of the People’s Republic of China,
http://www.mca.gov.cn/mca/laws/fagui20.html
Article 3: The civil administration department of the State
Council is responsible for the national funeral work. The
civil administration office of the local government above
county level is in charge of the funeral work in its
jurisdiction.
Article 9: Nobody is allowed to build funeral facility without
approval.
5. Business Times, December 9, 2005
6. Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 463 Hospital website,
May 12, 2004, “Air Force Urology Research Center”
7. Phoenix Weekly, The 21st issue of 2005 (the general 190th
issue)
8. Amnesty International Annual Report
9. Xinhua Net source, January 14, 2004: Morning News “Kidney
Sale Ad Rampant in Shanghai and Loophole in the Law has
‘Created’ Kidney Market,” reported by Du Chen and Wang Hongwei
10. Chinese Business News, December 24, 2004, “Human Organ
Sale Ad All over Hospital and Doctor Claimed Sufficient Kidney
Sources (with photo),” reported by Gan Jing.
11. WOIPFG investigation record: SJT_F_
12. China International Organ Transplant, “The Selection of
Volunteers”
13. Boxun News Net, March 1, 2006, quote from Japanese Common
News Agency “Japanese government to Investigate Death of
Japanese citizens from Organ Transplant in China.”
14. Health Newspaper, November 2, 2004, “The History of Organ
Transplant in Our Country”
15. Oriental Organ Transplantation Center Net, November 5,
2004, “The Silent Formation of Chinese Organ Transplant
Market”
16. WOIPFG investigation record: SJT_F_
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