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Continuing the series from my previous posts →

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For the second story in this series, I want to share the account of Han Yu, a Falun Gong practitioner whose father died while detained in Beijing.

Han Yu gave this account at a Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) press conference at the Harvard Club in September 2019.

Her father died at the Fangshan District Detention Center on May 4, 2004. Authorities reportedly attributed the death to a heart attack. However, Han Yu described serious concerns about the autopsy, the lack of family consent, the authorities’ refusal to provide the post-mortem results, and the condition of his father’s body when the family was eventually allowed to see it.

Han Yu believed that her father’s organs may have been harvested. Her account raises disturbing questions about what happened after her father’s death.

I’ll let Han Yu describe what his family experienced in her own words.

Han Yu's account :

On May 4, 2004, my father died in the Fangshan District Detention Center. The police claimed that an autopsy was needed because the cause of death was unclear.

However, my stepmother told me that she did not sign the consent form, and I did not see any documents requesting the consent of autopsy from the family members.

Eventually, the Public security personnel conducted the autopsy without family consent and even forbid our family members from seeing the body … they did not provide us any results of the post-mortem examination. Only on the day of cremation for my father’s body, the authorities printed a report on-site and … claimed that my father died of a heart attack.

On June 18, 2004, more than a month after my father’s death, the police allowed our family to see the remains … The Fangshan police branch dispatched a lot of police cars and personnel to closely monitor the site.

We were not allowed to bring cameras-only the immediate family members were allowed to see the remains, two persons in each turn, and under the close watch of policemen on-site.

When I saw my father’s body, I still couldn’t believe that it was real. My father was lying there with countless scars. … There were stitches in the throat area, using very thick black threads. The incision extended down until covered by the clothes. I stepped closer and wanted to unbutton the clothes and examine the wounds. Though I was able to open up two buttons, the police on-site immediately stopped me, and forced my family out of the facility.

Then, our other relatives including my uncle went in. They tore up my father’s clothes when the policemen were unprepared. They found that the incision was all the way from the throat to the abdomen.

When they pressed the abdomen, they found that his abdomen was stuffed with hard ice. My uncle was very angry and questioned the police [about] what they had done [to] my father, so that he died without a complete body.

The police just said that this was due to autopsy. My uncle rushed out and asked my stepmother why she agreed the autopsy. My stepmother cried and said she did not sign.

Why I'm sharing this :

Han Yu’s account is heartbreaking. Imagine losing your father in detention, being denied answers about his death, and then seeing his body weeks later, covered in scars, with an incision stretching from his throat to his abdomen.

And this is not an isolated account. Other witnesses, families, and researchers have also raised serious concerns about forced organ harvesting from detained Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Behind these reports are real people, families torn apart, and suffering that no one should have to endure. That’s why I’m sharing these stories: to look beyond the numbers and hear from the people whose lives have been affected.

This is #2 in the series. One witness at a time.

I’ve been wanting to hear how everyone else came to practice Dafa, so I thought I’d share my own story first. Mine was a bit of a winding journey, with a few strange coincidences along the way.

I actually came across Falun Dafa almost ten years before I started practicing. At the time, I couldn’t really get into it. I never properly finished Zhuan Falun, and I didn’t start doing the exercises.

But interestingly, even just reading Falun Gong changed the way I looked at certain things-worship, spirituality, and life in general. Something about it stayed with me. I knew there was something good about the practice, even though I wasn’t ready to take it up myself.

Then, during medical school, a whole series of what you might call coincidences happened that eventually led me to start practicing.

The first was that I was desperately looking for a meditation practice.

I was struggling quite badly with ADHD symptoms at the time. My inability to manage even small things had gotten to the point where I was genuinely frustrated and, at times, in tears. I wanted something that could help calm my mind and give me some control over myself.

I already knew about Falun Dafa because my brother practiced it. So I thought, Okay, maybe it’s finally time I actually start.

The second thing happened during my internship.

I was posted in the emergency ICU. One day, a car was bringing a patient to the hospital after an incident involving alcohol intoxication. On the way, the car went over a cliff and crashed.

The strange and heartbreaking part was that everyone involved ended up in the same hospital they had originally been driving to. The person who had been accompanying the original patient ended up in the ICU right next to him.

As an intern, I was asked to monitor these two patients. It was one of the first times I had seen something like this up close. Sadly, the person who had been accompanying the patient eventually passed away.

That experience really shook me. One minute, you’re sitting in a car taking your friend to the hospital. The next minute, you’re fighting for your life in an ICU.

It made me realize something very simple:

Life is incredibly fragile.

And once that really sank in, I started asking myself: What am I actually doing with my life?

Go through medical school, get an MD, make some money, get married, have children, put them through college, settle them, retire… and then what?

What is the actual purpose of human life?

I felt that there had to be something more than that. And somewhere in the back of my mind, I felt that I might find some of those answers by actually sitting down and properly reading Zhuan Falun.

The third thing happened through the Epoch Times.

I was following the Epoch Times because I thought their reporting on COVID-19 was phenomenal. It was one of the places I was regularly going to for information during that time.

While reading the Epoch Times, I came across an article by Master Li Hongzhi about how humankind came to be. Honestly, that article blew me away.

I didn’t completely understand everything on the first read. But I remember thinking: There is a completely different perspective on human existence here, and there is so much I don’t understand yet.

That was probably the final push. I thought, Okay. It’s time. I should actually learn this practice properly and find out for myself what it’s about.

And that’s what eventually led me to start Falun Dafa.

I can’t say that everything has been smooth sailing since then.

I certainly haven’t fixed every problem I had before I started practicing. Far from it.

But I can honestly say that I’m not the same person anymore.

I don’t think I can ever look at the world in exactly the same way I did before.

The way I think, the way I approach problems, and the way I try to conduct myself have fundamentally changed. I’m still far from where I want to be, but I’m genuinely trying to become a better person.

And many of the questions I had about human life, purpose, and meaning have found answers that I had been searching for without even knowing exactly what I was looking for.

There’s also a funny little fact about my practice.

When I first started, I couldn’t even sit for five minutes comfortably during meditation. 😂

For those who practice, you know there are five exercises. I used to do exercises one through five in about 15 minutes and think, Yep, that’s enough.

Now, I’m definitely not claiming to be a veteran or anything, but I’m pretty happy that I can push myself to around 40–45 minutes (sitting meditation) reasonably comfortably.

So that’s my story.

I’m curious about everyone else’s:

What first brought you to Falun Dafa?

Was it something you read? A personal experience? Or were you simply curious and decided to try it?

I’d genuinely love to hear your stories. Let’s make this an interactive thread. 🙏

Following up on my previous post introducing this series →

[ https://www.reddit.com/r/falun_dafa/s/29bOhhUVKA ]

Annie - The Sujiatun Account, 2006

For the first story in this series, I want to start with Annie.

Annie was a nurse who worked at the Liaoning Province Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. Her work involved statistics, logistics and accounting. She was also the wife of a neurosurgeon who worked at the same hospital.

In 2006, Annie came forward with an account describing what she said she learned and witnessed while working there.

According to her statement, her former husband removed the corneas of around 2,000 people between late 2001 and October 2003. She said that he initially did not know the people were Falun Gong practitioners, but later learned who they were and became aware that the procedures involved the removal of multiple organs.

Annie also described what she said she noticed through her work with hospital statistics and logistics, including increases in food and medical-supply consumption during periods when large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners were being detained.

Rather than summarize her story further, I think it’s better to let Annie speak for herself.

Below is her full statement as published in the FOH report:

My name is Annie. I used to work for Liaoning Province Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. I have exposed a concentration camp hidden inside the hospital. My work had to do with statistics. My ex-husband was a surgeon in that hospital. I’m sorry that I am not able to attend today’s press conference. I have been escaping from the danger of assassination for the past few years. When my ex-husband decided to stop removing organs from Falun Gong practitioners, he was nearly assassinated by an organization in China.

My ex-husband and I worked in this hospital from 1999 and 2004. [He removed] corneas of around 2,000 people … from the end of 2001 to October 2003.

In July 2001 … on the receipts I noted sharp increases in the food supplies. Also, the people in charge of the logistics were delivering meals to the facilities where Falun Gong practitioners were detained. From the receipts, the medical equipment supplies also sharply increased … After several months, the consumption of food and other supplies gradually decreased.

The person in charge of … sending food to Falun Gong practitioners detained told me that there were about 5,000 to 6,000 practitioners. At the time, a lot of public security bureaus and hospitals in many areas were detaining many Falun Gong practitioners. A lot of people working at the hospital, including me, were not Falun Gong practitioners. So, we didn’t pay attention. If it were not for what happened in 2003, when I found my ex-husband was directly involved in it, I probably wouldn’t be interested in this at all.

In 2003, I learned that Falun Gong practitioners had been transferred to the underground complex and other hospitals, because our hospital couldn’t hold so many people.

During the years of 2001–2002, I didn’t know anything about organ harvesting. I only knew the detention of these people.

The operations started in 2001. Some were done in our hospital, and some were done at other hospitals in the region. At the beginning [my ex-husband] also did the operations, but he did not know they were Falun Gong practitioners. He was a neurosurgeon. He removed corneas… Because our hospital was not an organ transplant hospital—it was only in charge of removal—how these organs were transplanted, he didn’t know. At the end of 2001, he started to operate, but he didn’t know these live bodies were Falun Gong practitioners. He got to know that in 2002. Usually, these Falun Gong practitioners were injected with a shot to cause heart failure. During the process these people would be pushed into operation rooms to have their organs removed. On the surface the heart stopped beating, but the brain was still functioning, because of that shot … These people were pushed to other operation rooms for removals of heart, liver, kidneys, etc. During one operation when he collaborated with other doctors, he learned they were Falun Gong practitioners, that their organs were removed while alive, and that it was not just cornea removal—they were removing many organs. In the later period of time, when these doctors cooperated together, they started doing the operations together. At the beginning, fearing information could leak out, different organs were removed by different doctors in different rooms. Later on, when they got money, they were no longer afraid anymore. They started to remove the organs together.

In the year 2002, [my] neighbor had a liver transplant. It cost 200,000 yuan. The hospital charged a little bit less for Chinese than foreigners. … [My ex-husband] was asked to help out in other hospitals. However, every time when he did such a favor, or provided this kind of help, he got lots of money, and cash awards—several dozen times his normal salary. … Paid in Chinese yuan. Equivalent to hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars. There was no proper procedure or paperwork for this kind of operation. So, there was no way to count the number of operations in the normal way. [My ex-husband] heard … that people were detained underground. If three operations were done every day, after several years of operation, for the 5,000–6,000 people, not many people would be left. This whole scheme and the trading of organs were organized by the government healthcare system. The doctors’ responsibility was simply to do what they were told to do. The bodies would be sent to the crematorium near the Sujiatun area … Usually the reasons were ‘the heart stopped beating,’ ‘heart failure.’ When these people were rounded up and detained, nobody knew their names or where they were from. So, when they were sent to the crematorium, nobody could claim their bodies.

Later, when [my ex-husband] wanted to quit, someone did try to kill him. He submitted his resignation letter … In February 2004, after his resignation was granted, the last month of working in the hospital … we received phone threats at home. Someone said to him, ‘You watch out for your life.’ One day we got off work in the afternoon. There were two people walking toward us trying to assassinate him … I pushed him aside and took the stab. Men do not have very good sixth senses, so he kept walking. When I realized the two people were going to pull the knife to stab him, I pushed him aside … Many people came over and I was sent to the hospital. These two men ran away … I learned that they were thugs hired by the government health authorities.

Some of the staff in this hospital knew about it … Many surgeons participated in such organ removal surgeries secretly. Some other staff members dared not reveal the secret even when they knew about it. They avoided talking about it because they didn’t want to be killed.

The majority of the Falun Gong practitioners were transferred from Dabei Prison, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and other prisons in Shenyang. Others were kidnapped from parks or their homes. They were kidnapped because they refused to give up their belief in Falun Gong. The police didn’t have any search warrant and their families didn’t know it when they were arrested.

Because the Chinese Communist government’s state policy authorizes killing Falun Gong practitioners without any legal consequences, the death of Falun Gong practitioners in China’s penal system is nothing. I knew about this at the end of 2003.

At the time, my husband had become absent-minded and trance-like. He had been doing it for years, but he had never told me about it. He kept it as a secret. He often had terrible nightmares at night and woke up shrieking and terrified. He stared blankly at the TV. When the kid or I touched him, he would shriek. I found him becoming abnormal.

My ex-husband told me, ‘You have no idea of my agony. These Falun Gong practitioners were alive. It would be okay if we removed organs from dead bodies, but these people were truly alive.’

These things were done in secret … The intern doctors used Falun Gong practitioners’ bodies for experiments. Some doctors felt very painful after they had done it.

My ex-husband had the habit of keeping a diary. There is an entry in his diary. When a patient lost her conscience, he cut open her clothes with a scissor. A package fell out of her pocket. My husband opened it and found a small box inside. Inside the box, there were a lucky charm with Falun Gong symbol and a note. It says, ‘Mommy Happy Birthday.’

I am not a Falun Gong practitioner. I am not speaking here with the same high level of morality as Falun Gong practitioners.

Source: FOH report / Annie’s 2006 statement.

I’m sharing her account in full because that’s the point of this series. We’ve seen the investigations, documents, statistics and official records , but behind all of that are individual people with their own stories.

This is #1.

One witness at a time.

More witness accounts to come.

Hi everyone,

We’ve recently seen the U.S. Senate pass the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act, addressing forced organ harvesting in China.

While that’s a significant development, I wanted to share something a little different - the real human stories behind it. Over the coming posts, I’m going to share the stories of individual witnesses, and family members of victims who have described the persecution of Falun Gong and forced organ harvesting in China.

The idea is simple -one witness at a time.

Some of these stories are difficult to read. But if we want to understand just how dark the persecution became for the people caught up in it, I think these stories deserve to be heard. Wherever possible, I’ll present the witness’s own words and provide the original source so you can read and look into it yourself.

The first witness will be Annie — the Sujiatun account from 2006.

Her story will be the first post in the series. I’d really like to hear your thoughts on these accounts as we go along. Thanks for reading.

Have you guys watched the new documentary on forced organ harvesting in China by Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting?

The documentary includes testimonies from many of the experts involved in the investigations, along with witness accounts. I had read about the issue before, but after watching this, I understood the scale of it far better , and how deeply the CCP used every arm of the state, including the judiciary, executive, and legislative systems, to make it possible. What was even more disturbing was the extent to which the medical system itself appears to have been corrupted in the process.

One piece of evidence they discussed especially stood out to me and genuinely gave me chills.

Dr. Jacob Lavee, a renowned cardiac transplant surgeon in Israel, spoke about a patient who told him he could schedule a heart transplant in just two weeks. That kind of wait time is shockingly short for a heart transplant, something that normally cannot be planned in advance because organs depend on unpredictable donor availability and have extremely limited preservation times. Investigators also found similarly abnormal wait times for other organs, including reports of emergency liver transplants being arranged within just four hours, something virtually unheard of in standard transplant systems. I really encourage people to watch it. It’s as informative as it is spine-chilling.

Link to the documentary : https://silentharvestmovie.com/