Cheng Peiming’s Escape from Forced Organ Surgery (Interview with Peiming Cheng Part 3)

You’re listening to part three of a Barefoot Lawyer Reports on China interview with Peiming Cheng, a man who claims to have survived a forced organ harvesting surgery by the Chinese Communist Party. In this episode, Mr. Cheng finishes telling his story and Dr. Sen Niah elaborates on these horrors committed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Peiming Cheng: I was on the run for nine years in China from place to place. Then I realized that I can no longer hide, as there were warrants of arrest, dead or alive, with a reward of 50,000 Chinese dollars. So I sneaked down a small road to the southern border of China, entered Cambodia, and then traveled to Thailand and reported to the UN refugee camp in Bangkok. I received refugee status. In addition, I want to thank Assistant Secretary Bob Destro, who investigated the case and facilitated my travel to the United States. His actions not only helped me; he indirectly also helped this victimized group, because I’m one of the million that survived.

Almost all of them were killed and cremated after the force organ harvesting. I have many fellow friends and Falun Gong practitioners who will die of torture, be vaporized, or disappear for the organ harvesting. We had a kind of a mutual agreement that anyone who had a chance to get out of the free world should let the world know what’s happening in China in the presence detention center for organ harvesting. So I’m not only speaking for myself; I am speaking on behalf of those voiceless of fellow friends who lost their life or disappeared. Once again, thank you to Bob Destro and the State Department for helping me and this victimized group of organ harvesting.

After I came to the United States in July 2020, I was brought to the hospital for various tests. The lab conducted nine different imaging tests, including ultrasound, X ray, and MRI. Doctor Charles Lee and others followed up on the tests, and confirmed that I had my left liver, specifically segments 2 and 3, forcefully removed, and the lower left loop of the lung was also surgically removed. In addition, my diaphragm and nerves were being damaged. The result of this is that my diaphragm can no longer go down on the left side, and the chest pain I have had for twenty years still remains. The pain synchronizes with my pulse rate, and is particularly brutal during rain or bad weather. Coming back to the initial assessment, the doctors and their medical assessments recognized me as the first survivor of forced organ harvesting.

I urged the people to listen to my stories, and petitioned to the righteous groups, the NGOs, and to human rights groups who could form an international independent delegation group and force China to open the doors of their hospitals and the prison detention centers. I wanted them to let people investigate organ harvesting, and specifically tell me where my left liver and lung go, and what CCP  did about them. So I urged the international community to pressure the CCP about this issue, to slow down or even stop the crime of forced organ harvesting. There are many people in our country who agree to be organ donors, as noted on our driver license. I was told there were about 140 million Americans willing to donate. More than one third of the population, 40% of the Americans, are willing to donate organs if there’s any accident, however, we still don’t have enough organs. People with need for kidneys, livers, or a heart wait a long time; about 2-3 years for a kidney, and at least 2 years for a liver.  Even with so many volunteer donors, we still don’t have enough organs, and about 10% of the patients die while waiting for kidneys. The opposite is occurring in China. There are not many people willing to donate; it’s claimed that 1 million people are willing to donate from the Red Cross, but that is miniscule as we have 140 million people waiting for organs. The CCP’s wait is very short for kidneys. Livers take about 1-3 weeks. You can get the organs you need and they can even schedule when you get it, even a heart transplant. They can schedule a person who died with the same blood type as you and donate the heart delivered to you within a specific time.

This doesn’t make any sense, and they did the large scale of organ harvesting. The only possibility is they kept a very large number of prisoners of conscience in detention center presence waiting to be killed to meet organ demand. Falun Gong is one of the main sources because the practitioners don’t drink, don’t smoke, and don’t have bad habits, so the quality of their organs is fantastic. The same applies to the Uyghurs because their religious beliefs keep their organs healthier. These victimized groups are being killed by the hundreds every day for the organ supply.

In the past, there has never been a survivor who escaped. My story is amazing, and I have been blessed by God to escape remembering many different details, to come to the States and be verified by doctors, and to be one of the millions able to testify that forced organ harvesting is an sponsored act carried out by the government by the Chinese Communist Party on a large industrial scale. This is a crime against humanity. I’ve been a whistleblower for the past 20 years. I’m one of the pioneers to get attention. Yet we still don’t have enough attention from the general public, our media, our governments, and the international community to restrain CCP. We still have a medical collaboration with Chinese transplant doctors and with pharmaceutical companies, but we need to raise awareness to inform more people. Cutting people’s hearts open to take the organs is a humiliation to God. Thank you for the program, Professor Sanders. I want to express my deep appreciation to your arrangement of this opportunity to pay attention to victims like me. It’s very important that a righteous organization like the Center of Human Rights of CUA can stand in solidarity with those victimized people, including me, for organ harvesting is a new form of evil on earth. With more people standing on the right side then there will be a better chance to suppress the crime scene by CCP. On that part, I thank the Center of Human Rights and thank you.

Bill Saunders: I just want to say we’re very honored to have him with us. It is a terrible human rights abuse and people need to realize that it’s any government that permits this to occur is a totalitarian nightmare. We’re very honored to have him on the podcast. In addition, thank you Dr. Sen Niah, not only for your work on this, but for also translating and bringing him to our podcast.

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