‘Hard to Believe’: Film Explores Chinese Regime’s On-Demand Killing of Prisoners for Their Organs

Ottawa event highlights communist state’s ‘massive atrocities’ of forced organ harvesting to fuel transplant industry, mainly targeting Falun Gong adherents

Panellists Maria Cheung, an assistant professor and a research affiliate with the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba, and Xun Li, president of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, at a panel discussion following a screening of the documentary “Hard to Believe” at the University of Ottawa on April 5, 2018. Jian Ren/The Epoch Times

Killing innocent people on demand for their organs on a mass scale is such an abhorrence that many find it hard or even impossible to believe. “We are reminded of the constant historical lesson of ‘never again’ once we recognize massive atrocities that are hard to fathom,” said Prof. Gary Goldsand, director of the University of Alberta’s John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, at a National Health Ethics Week event at the University of Ottawa on April 5. Goldsand was referring to the state-orchestrated forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in China, in which compelling evidence has led to multiple international actions, including U.S. and European Parliament resolutions and changes to laws in several countries around citizens travelling to China for transplants.

“It just goes without saying that there should be an absolute transparent line,” Goldsand said, adding that for the doctors and other health professionals in China involved in this practice, “it’s a fundamental breach of the principles that we hold most dear.”