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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

Reader S. sends us this link to a disturbing article published in The Epoch Times:

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Up to 1.5 Million Killed by Chinese Regime for Their Organs, Report Reveals
New report details how China built a massive transplant industry through harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience—believed to be mainly Falun Gong practitioners
By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times |
June 22, 2016 AT 3:39 PM

Last Updated: June 23, 2016 2:32 pm
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2097522-1-5-million-potentially-killed-by-chinese-regime-for-their-organs-report-reveals/

Excerpt:

The authors of the new report, relying on previous evidence and new findings, contend that the primary population in China that could have been targeted in this way are prisoners of conscience, composed primarily of practitioners of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong is a traditional discipline of the Buddhist school that became extremely popular in China throughout the 1990s. It involves doing five meditative exercises and living according to teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The state tacitly supported Falun Gong, and an official survey indicated there were upward of 70 million practitioners by 1999—more than the number of members in the Communist Party.

In July 1999, the leader of the regime, Jiang Zemin, unleashed a national campaign to eliminate the practice. He initially met with high-level opposition, but quickly turned the anti-Falun Gong mobilization into a means of consolidating his power within the Party, as he promoted loyalists and sidelined resisters.

Organ harvesting as a means of eliminating the Falun Gong population appears to have begun by the following year.

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