In 2006, the Washington-based Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China asked Canadian lawyer David Matas and me to investigate as volunteers the bizarre but persistent claims of organ pillaging from Falun Gong practitioners. We later released two reports and a 2009 book, “Bloody Harvest.” To our dismay, we concluded that, for 41,500 transplants done in the years 2000–2005 alone, the only plausible explanation for sourcing was Falun Gong.
Our main conclusion: “Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers, corneas, and hearts, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries.”
Evidence led us to conclude that a new state crime against humanity was occurring.
