by Ji Da
witness, a former employee at the Liaoning Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated
Chinese and Western Medicine, and says the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners
are cremated immediately after the organs are removed. (The Epoch Times)
] A former employee of Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated
Chinese and Western Medicine told The Epoch Times during a recent interview
that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in China was actually a part of a hospital.
The concentration camp has engaged in taking organs from Falun Gong practitioners
when they were still alive and selling the organs. Since 2001, the concentration
camp has secretly detained approximately 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners, none
of whom have been able to leave the camp alive. The hospital removed many kidneys,
livers, and corneas from the practitioners. After the organ removal, the practitioners
were thrown into an incinerator, which was converted from a boiler. Their ashes
were dumped together with burned charcoal.
Organs from Three Quarters
of the 6,000 People Were Removed
Those whose organs were removed were
in various states of health. Because many of the victims were illegally detained,
there was neither an arrest warrant nor identification as to who these people
actually were. Often after their organs were removed, nobody claimed the bodies.
Sometimes their bodies were picked up by crooks who pretended to be their family
members.
About three-quarters of the 6,000 people died after their hearts,
kidneys, corneas, or skin was removed; their bodies were then burned. This witness,
whose family member participated in the removal of Falun Gong practitioners'
organs, said that approximately 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners remain in the hospital.
She was afraid that the authorities would kill all of them to destroy evidence.
The Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western
Medicine is located at 49 Xuesong Road, Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province,
China. It was the first hospital in China to specialize in the heart, the brain,
and surrounding blood vessels. The hospital is composed of several organizations,
including the Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine College Teaching Hospital
and the Shenyang Thrombosis Treatment Center.
Concentration Camp Details
The hospital site is 21,087 square meters, with 17,564 square meters of building
area. It employs 460 people in 24 departments and 20 specialized offices. Information
from the Chinese government shows that the hospital was established in December
1988, and was formerly named the Shenyang Research Institute of Thrombosis and
Liaoning Province Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western
Medicine. In June 1998, it was renamed China Traditional Medicine Thrombosis Treatment
Center.
The Chinese Business Morning View said in a story on July 4,
2004, that a farm worker died of abnormal causes in Sujiatun, Shenyang and was
later cremated. The death certificate was provided by the Chinese Medicine Thrombosis
Treatment Center in Sujiatun. The news caused a stir in China.
copy of the death certificate. (The Epoch Times Archives Photo)
Below is the transcript of an Epoch Times reporter's interview with
the former staff member of the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated
Chinese and Western Medicine in Sujiantun, Shenyang City. Questions were posed
by the reporter and answered by the staff member being interviewed.
Epoch
Times: Did the hospital's medical staff inside the concentration camp
know about this?
Answer: This hospital has a small number of officials
and some doctors involved secretively in the operation of organ harvesting. Some
other staff in the hospital knew about this, but this is absolutely a taboo [to
talk about]. They all are afraid of being killed or courting trouble, so they
all avoid the issue. Only those highly trusted doctors could be chosen to be the
surgeons for organ harvesting operations.
ET: Were Falun Gong
practitioners alive when their organs were harvested? Did their families know
about this?
Answer: Falun Gong practitioners who were imprisoned
there came mostly from Dabei Prison, Masanjia Labor Camp, and other prisons in
Shenyang, or they were Falun Gong practitioners arrested in parks or residential
homes. Because they refused to denounce Falun Gong, they were arrested without
formal warrants, and their families did not know their situation. Many did not
even have their names [recorded]. In addition, since the Chinese authority exercises
a policy of “not being responsible” for killing Falun Gong practitioners, the
death of Falun Gong practitioners is not a very big issue for prisons. The Chinese
Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong, [but] these medical personnel were told
Falun Gong practitioners were facing death because they killed people, or they
were sentenced to death because of crimes, or they had become insane from practicing
Falun Gong.
Those Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were harvested came
from several types.
Organs harvested from live bodies are worth far more than
organs taken from dead bodies. Many Falun Gong practitioners were still alive
when their organs were taken. After their organs were cut out, some of these people
were thrown directly into the crematorium to be burnt, thus leaving no evidence.
For some others, after their organs were stolen, the doctor sewed up the wound
and asked the family or family representative to give a signature for cremation.
Family members did not know at all that the dead had their organs taken out.
Furthermore, there were some healthy Falun Gong practitioners in prisons in other
areas who were injected—without their knowledge—with psychoactive drugs that made
their minds confused. They then were transferred to Sujiantun concentration camp
to suffer further torture, till in the end their organs were harvested and their
bodies were cremated in secret.
Among the Falun Gong practitioners whose organs
were harvested, some were weak and some were healthy. Since most of them were
illegally arrested, there were no arrest warrants or identification cards. After
their organs were taken out while they were still alive, no one came to claim
their bodies; or [sometimes] people using fake identities claimed their bodies.
None of these people have come out [of the concentration camp] alive; three-quarters
of these 6,000 people have died, having their hearts, kidneys, retinas, and skins
harvested and their bodies disposed of. I think now about 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners
are still in this hospital, and I am afraid now that the authority will destroy
all evidence and kill them.
Question: How did you know these things?
Were you yourself a doctor involved in organ harvesting?
Answer:
I worked at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese
and Western Medicine, Shenyang. This is exactly where this concentration camp
is located. One of my family members was involved in the operation to harvest
Falun Gong practitioners' organs. This has brought great pain to our family.
Question: Please tell us what you knew about.
Answer:
From 2001, our hospital started to detain Falun Gong practitioners. At the beginning,
these people were detained in the single-storey houses in the back yard of the
hospital. Later, the hospital authorities demolished the single-storey houses,
and it was unknown where in the hospital the Falun Gong practitioners were transferred.
Many staff of the hospital discussed in private that these Falun Gong practitioners
had been secretly transferred to the underground chambers of the hospital. According
to some people working inside the hospital, the hospital has a huge system of
secret underground chambers.
At the time when we went to work there, the person
in charge of logistics and purchasing in the hospital said that the quantity of
disposable sterile gloves used for operations and daily supplies that the hospital
authorities asked to be purchased had increased dramatically. The logistics people
estimated based on the scale of purchases at that time that there were at least
6,000 Falun Gong practitioners detained in this hospital.
These Falun Gong
practitioners were not detained in the 4-story building under the in-patient department
and administration at the front of the hospital, in order to keep the hospital
staff from seeing them at all. We only occasionally saw Falun Gong practitioners
being sent on a mobile intensive care bed to the first floor for physical examinations.
These people were very weak. For the majority of the Falun Gong practitioners,
nobody knew where they were being secretly kept. While they still did not know
where these people were kept, some staff inquired to the hospital authorities
about why so much food and so many sterile gloves and daily supplies were purchased.
The hospital authorities said, “You only need to do your job well. There is no
need for you to ask any other questions.”
Starting in 2001, a family member
of mine participated in organ-harvesting operations. My family member tried to
keep me from knowing about this at the beginning. The hospital authorities selected
doctors they trust in different aspects to perform the secretive operations. After
a period of time, I found that my family member was in a lot pain, often had nightmares,
and appeared panic-stricken. After repeated inquiries, this family member told
me the truth. The leader of the hospital had asked my family member to participate
in the organ harvesting operations on Falun Gong practitioners as early as 2001.
It was 2003 when my family member confessed. A few years after, my family member
felt so much pain from participating in this incident that it was impossible to
continue with the evildoing. My family member decided to go abroad to get away
from this matter.
My family member also told me: “you don't understand
my suffering; those Falun Gong practitioners were alive. It might be easier for
me if they were dead, but they were alive.”
Question: Were there
any other doctors from the hospital taking part in the operations of cutting out
Falun Gong practitioners' organs?
Answer: I know there were
some. All these things have been carried out secretly. Many doctors at our hospital
involved were practicum doctors transferred from other hospitals. Because the
government does not want to be responsible for Falun Gong practitioners' bodies
and lives, their lives are treated as garbage by the regime, and their bodies
were used in experiments by new doctors doing their practitcums.
Many doctors
came and left the hospital because they suffered a lot after having been involved
in these kinds of things. They either requested to be transferred to other places,
or changed their names. Some might have been killed to eliminate the evidence,
their identity files were taken out from the hospital's filing system, or
their names were changed. Nobody knows where the doctors have gone.
The hospital
staff all know that the rear part of the hospital is forbidden. It is always watched.
The staff avoids talking about the place.
Question: It is said
the hospital is equipped with an incinerator. The person whose organs were removed
will be burned when he or she is still alive. Is that true?
Answer:
The employees in our hospital call this place “the incinerator.” Actually, it
is a boiler room. Some poor farmers from nearby places were hired to work in the
boiler room. They were penniless when they first came here. But they could scrape
up some watches, finger rings, necklaces, and so on. The amount is not small.
It is said by the employees in the hospital these jewelry and watches were collected
from the Falun Gong practitioners whose organs had been removed when they were
about to be thrown in the boiler to be burned. It is also said by the employees
in the hospital, some were still alive when being thrown into the boiler.
Question: Do they get injection of anesthetic when in surgery?
Answer: Yes. There is a cap to the anesthetic quantity used in mainland
China's hospitals. Generally, the supply of anesthetic was determined according
to the accommodation of the hospital. To the public, the number of patients in
our care appears to be very small, and publicly reported number of surgical procedures
performed is quite low. But the equipment and articles used in surgery are abundant.
Because the amount of anesthetic is limited, these secret surgeries could not
use the normal anesthetic doses. In order to save anesthetic, they economized
on the anesthetic used in surgeries on these Falun Gong practitioners. The amount
of anesthetic used was very small. However, many whose organs were removed were
still alive. You can imagine the pain suffered by the Falun Gong practitioners
whose organs were removed.
Question: Are there any survivors among
the 6,000 people detained since 2001?
Answer: Nobody has come
out alive. The number of them gets smaller and smaller. The Falun Gong practitioners
detained at Sujiatun are fewer now than before. But I believe that the sin of
removing the organs of the Falun Gong practitioners is still continuing.
Question: Where are these organs usually sold to? Do the higher authorities
in the government know about this?
Answer: They are mainly sold
to Thailand, but I believe they are also sold to other regions of the world. Nowadays,
there are many patients in China who need human skin, corneas, and kidneys for
organ transplant surgeries. Many patients have to wait in line to purchase organs.
Currently, a kidney can be sold up to the price of 30,000 to 100,000 U.S. dollars.
The profit from selling organs is simply too great. The people who benefit from
this are not only the top leaders of hospital and the officials of the Chinese
Communist Party's Heath Department. This is a crime present across the entire
nation. People ranging from government officials to doctors to organ sellers are
all involved in this and are profiting greatly.
Question: Why
did they target Falun Gong practitioners as the source of organs?
Answer: Because relatives of many Falun Gong practitioners don't even
know that their family members were arrested. So if the Falun Gong practitioners
are killed, there will be no one to come and claim their dead bodies.
Question: Why did you want to expose this? This may bring great danger
to you.
Answer: I know that there are many Falun Gong practitioners
who are currently detained at the hospital. I would like to expose this to the
international community, so those who are not yet killed can be saved. Also, I
would like to expose this as an atonement for my family.
I am not a Falun
Gong practitioner. But as a former staff member of the hospital, I have the responsibility
to expose the truth, and let the world to save those Falun Gong practitioners
who are still alive. Organs of some Falun Gong practitioners are still living
on patients' bodies. I would like to call on all society to pay attention
to this issue and stop this shocking crime.
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date: 18/Mar/2006
Original article date: 17/Mar/2006
Category: Media Report
