CCP Makes Nearly $9 Billion in Profits Annually From Medical Genocide, Lawyer Estimates
Mr. Matas said that official figures for organ transplants were 10,000 organs a year, but said this figure may be 10 times higher.International human rights expert David Matas has highlighted the scale of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s medical genocide, estimating that the regime may be earning nearly US$9 billion (A$13.5 billion) a year from forced organ harvesting.“The numbers are large and horrendous,” international human rights lawyer Mr. Matas stated during a Q&A session following a screening of the documentary “State Organs,” which exposes these secretive crimes by the communist regime.“The total figure I was getting was $8.9 billion a year.”The award-winning documentary is about the perilous search for two youths who mysteriously disappeared in China.What their families uncovered was far more sinister: a state-sponsored industry targeting innocent, healthy citizens for their organs, which are then sold for transplantation globally.Mr. Matas said that the CCP’s official figures for organ transplants were 10,000 organs a year, but his calculation produced a figure ten times larger.Related Stories“We did our own calculation of volumes by going to hospital websites and adding them up. The Chinese official figures were in total 10,000 organs a year, but our calculation was 100,000 a year,” he said. “That’s an awful lot of people.”He touched on how large-scale atrocities are sometimes hard to grasp, quoting Joseph Stalin’s adage that “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic.”Documentary Would ‘Chill Australians to the Bone’Kerry Wright, an audience member and former high school teacher, said the film was a timely reminder of the ethical concerns surrounding organ transplants and the need for stricter regulations, as countries increasingly rely on trade with China.“I think this is something that should chill Australians to the bone,” Ms. Wright, who is involved with the Tibetan movement, told The Epoch Times on June 19.Practitioners of Falun Gong are not the only prisoners of conscience victims of forced organ harvesting. Tibetans, House Christians, and Uyghurs have also been victims.“They already know about it, but I think most people don’t want to feel and look. It is just too ... way out, beyond their understanding, but this film does it very well.”One of the poignant stories featured in the film is that of Sonny Zou, who was detained and tortured for practising Falun Gong. He was released briefly but tricked into returning to the police station in 2000, where he was sentenced to three years in a labor camp.Mr. Zou fell ill and died the next day; his body was cremated without his family’s consent. Mr. Zou was 28, leaving behind his wife and 11-month-old daughter.His widow faced police intimidation and surveillance for protesting her husband’s death, and disappeared three months later. The couple’s deaths are shrouded in mystery to this day.Ms. Wright said that the film should be seen by all lawmakers.“I actually recommend it as compulsory viewing for all people in politics from all parties. I don’t think this is a party matter,” the Australian educator said.The "State Organs" screening at NSW Parliament House, Sydney Australia on June 19, 2024. (Lorrita Liu/The Epoch Times)Origins of the Secret Organ Harvesting IndustryMr. Matas has dedicated nearly two decades to exposing the Chinese regime’s systemic organ harvesting practice.His investigative work, including his co-authored book with late Canadian MP David Kilgour, “Bloody Harvest of Falun Gong Practitioners in China,” was nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.In their work, they found that the main source of organs was practitioners of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa), a spiritual practice from the Buddhist tradition that teaches its adherents to live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.The practice quickly gained widespread popularity due to its health benefits, and grew to about 70-100 million practitioners by 1999 in China alone, according to official estimates.Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, jealous of Falun Gong’s popularity and seeing it as a threat to the communist regime’s totalitarian rule, launched a brutal persecution campaign against the practice. The ongoing persecution campaign involves, and is not limited to, arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, and forced organ harvesting.The practice’s popularity and emphasis on traditional moral values, harkening to China’s Buddhist- and Daoist-steeped culture before the communist regime, were perceived as a threat to its atheist ideology.David Matas, Maria Singh, and John Deller on the expert Q&A panel after the screening of "State Organs" at NSW Parliament House, Sydney Australia on June 19, 2024. (Lorrita Liu/The Epoch Times)The documentary, screened across major cities of Australia including Canberra, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, was hosted by parliamentarians, the Hon. Aileen MacDonald and the Hon. Susan Carter.
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Mr. Matas said that official figures for organ transplants were 10,000 organs a year, but said this figure may be 10 times higher.
International human rights expert David Matas has highlighted the scale of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s medical genocide, estimating that the regime may be earning nearly US$9 billion (A$13.5 billion) a year from forced organ harvesting.
“The numbers are large and horrendous,” international human rights lawyer Mr. Matas stated during a Q&A session following a screening of the documentary “State Organs,” which exposes these secretive crimes by the communist regime.
“The total figure I was getting was $8.9 billion a year.”
What their families uncovered was far more sinister: a state-sponsored industry targeting innocent, healthy citizens for their organs, which are then sold for transplantation globally.
Mr. Matas said that the CCP’s official figures for organ transplants were 10,000 organs a year, but his calculation produced a figure ten times larger.
“We did our own calculation of volumes by going to hospital websites and adding them up. The Chinese official figures were in total 10,000 organs a year, but our calculation was 100,000 a year,” he said. “That’s an awful lot of people.”
He touched on how large-scale atrocities are sometimes hard to grasp, quoting Joseph Stalin’s adage that “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic.”
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Documentary Would ‘Chill Australians to the Bone’
Kerry Wright, an audience member and former high school teacher, said the film was a timely reminder of the ethical concerns surrounding organ transplants and the need for stricter regulations, as countries increasingly rely on trade with China.“I think this is something that should chill Australians to the bone,” Ms. Wright, who is involved with the Tibetan movement, told The Epoch Times on June 19.
“They already know about it, but I think most people don’t want to feel and look. It is just too ... way out, beyond their understanding, but this film does it very well.”
One of the poignant stories featured in the film is that of Sonny Zou, who was detained and tortured for practising Falun Gong. He was released briefly but tricked into returning to the police station in 2000, where he was sentenced to three years in a labor camp.
Mr. Zou fell ill and died the next day; his body was cremated without his family’s consent. Mr. Zou was 28, leaving behind his wife and 11-month-old daughter.
His widow faced police intimidation and surveillance for protesting her husband’s death, and disappeared three months later. The couple’s deaths are shrouded in mystery to this day.
Ms. Wright said that the film should be seen by all lawmakers.
“I actually recommend it as compulsory viewing for all people in politics from all parties. I don’t think this is a party matter,” the Australian educator said.
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Origins of the Secret Organ Harvesting Industry
Mr. Matas has dedicated nearly two decades to exposing the Chinese regime’s systemic organ harvesting practice.His investigative work, including his co-authored book with late Canadian MP David Kilgour, “Bloody Harvest of Falun Gong Practitioners in China,” was nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
In their work, they found that the main source of organs was practitioners of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa), a spiritual practice from the Buddhist tradition that teaches its adherents to live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
The practice quickly gained widespread popularity due to its health benefits, and grew to about 70-100 million practitioners by 1999 in China alone, according to official estimates.
Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, jealous of Falun Gong’s popularity and seeing it as a threat to the communist regime’s totalitarian rule, launched a brutal persecution campaign against the practice. The ongoing persecution campaign involves, and is not limited to, arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, and forced organ harvesting.
The practice’s popularity and emphasis on traditional moral values, harkening to China’s Buddhist- and Daoist-steeped culture before the communist regime, were perceived as a threat to its atheist ideology.
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The documentary, screened across major cities of Australia including Canberra, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, was hosted by parliamentarians, the Hon. Aileen MacDonald and the Hon. Susan Carter.
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