On a day thirty years ago, Dr. Zheng Zhi was told only that he and other surgeons and nurses would be participating in a “secret military mission.” The mission turned out to be removing organs from a live victim, a man 18 years old at most.
Eva Fu reports Zheng’s testimony (“ ‘He Was Alive’: Tormented Chinese Doctor Recounts Harvesting Organs in Back of Van,” The Epoch Times, September 5, 2023):
“It was horrifying beyond words. He was looking right at me. His eyelids were moving. He was alive,” Dr. Zheng recounted during an interview with The Epoch Times in July, the first time he agreed to use his real name to recount his story.
But in that van in 1994, little did he know he was party to what would soon become an industrialized killing apparatus set up to extract organs from prisoners of conscience and sell them on demand.
In the van, he told the other doctors, “I can’t do this.” He felt his brain empty out as he sat there, shaky, sweating, and paralyzed….
The horror Dr. Zheng witnessed in the van, and afterward at the hospital, took place in 1994, when the regime’s mass-scale forced organ harvesting was still in its infancy.
Soon after this incident, Zheng left the hospital where he had been interning and became an internist and pediatrician in another city. He would have another, indirect encounter with China’s macabre organ-transplant regime several years later.
In 2002, Dr. Zheng accompanied a military official for his medical checkup, at the hospital where he once interned. The doctor told the official that he needed a new kidney to live.
“[We’ll] pick a top-quality one for you,” another military officer told his superior in the hallway, according to Dr. Zheng. “A fresh one, from a Falun Gong practitioner.”…
On the way home, the official asked Dr. Zheng whether he should get a kidney transplant.
“Don’t do it,” Dr. Zheng replied. “Isn’t that committing a murder?”…
“Armed police and officials above division ranks all know about [organ harvesting], and it’s pretty much known throughout the military. It’s nothing novel,” Dr. Zheng told The Epoch Times.
Zheng was unable to tell his story for the first time until 2015, when he used an alias.
