The day Liu Qingzhi was arrested, her newlywed son and daughter-in-law were picked up by police as well. After a savage beating, the son and daughter-in-law were released, but not Liu.
That evening, Liu’s son went to the brainwashing center in China’s Hebei Province where his mother was being held and saw that no bedding had been provided for her, so he went home to fetch a comforter.
When he returned the next day, she was gone. Only her shoes remained.
That was in August 2002, and Liu, a Falun Gong adherent, hasn’t been seen since.
Over the next 15 years, Liu’s family spent much time and money looking for her, but never found a trace.
Forced Organ Harvesting in China
Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is an ancient practice based on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance whose adherents have been suffering a relentless campaign of persecution launched by the Chinese regime in July 1999.To add insult to injury, independent researchers released an investigative report in 2006 showing that Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have been having their organs forcibly removed while still alive to fuel China’s lucrative transplant industry.
The perpetrators are officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), acting in collaboration with surgeons, prison authorities, and military officials, the report found.
“The Communist Party’s demonization and brutalization of Falun Gong and the health system’s insatiable demand for organs have formed a symbiosis. Each feeding on the other, the combination became an unprecedented, and barely imaginable, human catastrophe,” the report stated.
The researchers found that the 700 transplant hospitals across the country have had the capacity to perform more than a million transplants since 2000.
A 2019 report by the center found that China’s transplant industry “has grown exponentially and become the most prolific in the world in several years despite the lack of voluntary organ donation system until 2010, and the paltry number of donations since then.”
“This dramatic increase in transplant volume was facilitated, in great part, by the CCP’s campaign to eradicate Falun Gong,” the report said.
As for Liu, her family searched for her all over the country, to no avail. If her husband is right, she became a victim of the Chinese regime’s macabre practice of killing innocents in order to harvest their organs while still fresh and sell them for profit—something that has been described by Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, one of the authors of the “Bloody Harvest” report, as “a new form of evil on the planet.”