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Witness Testimony
JUDICIAL
COMMISSION
PURE-VERITAS
VALEBIT
EXTRACTED STATEMENT FROM DR. ENVER TOHTI
Testified on April 17, 2018 before the I.T.N.J. regarding the
Falun Gong and forced organ harvesting programs in China
DR. ENVER TOHTI is a renowned surgeon In 1995, I think it was a Wednesday...and that
who speaks of the horrific crimes against the Wednesday I happened to be the one free that didn’t
Falun Gong by the Communist Chinese who have operation (on the schedule), so the day before,
have an agenda of forced organ harvesting. my two chief surgeons called me into the office and
said, “Do you want to do something wild?” I said
“The speakers (before me) have given you a general of course! I was so excited, because, I mean, I was
picture, I’m here to tell you how this kind of thing young, and something wild means you don’t get
can happen in China. Because it can. Because I chance to do it. They said, “Assemble a team and
did one. There’s a fundamental difference between bring the mobile operation equipment and meet us
western mind and the eastern mind. The western at hospital gate tomorrow at 9:30am.” So I did.
people they assume innocent until proven guilty. In
the East, it is the other way around. So if you look At 9:30am I have my team and our van and the
at ‘Your Heart, My Skin, must be different,’ that is two chief surgeons appeared in a car and told us to
philosophy of Chinese culture. And this culture follow them. Of course we were all young and so
has been well adopted by the Chinese Communist excited wondering what are we going to do. Then we
Regime. So what this says is anyone labelling followed them from the direction traveling towards
himself anything other than Communist Party, his the west. I know in western mountain area we have a
heart must be different, therefore you are subject to branch hospital, so I thought we are going there, but
whatever punishment available. half way there we turn left again and head straight
to the mountain area and I got lost. I said where are
And a person like me, born to that society, just like we going. Our driver, he knows, and he said we are
born straight into the washing machine and get going to the execution ground.
my brain washed, so I believed, genuinely believed
whatever I had been told from the school, it’s true. Execution ground? What are we going to do there?
Just imagine people in North Korea now, it is who I We were actually a little scared wondering what
was back then, I believed it. I believed that anyone are we going to do there. Anyway, we had been
condemned to death by authorities is enemy of the told we have to go, so we go. Then we arrived at
state. And me, as a surgeon of this country, I have the execution ground, it was behind a hill, and the
moral duty to eliminate the enemy of the state. And two chief surgeons told us, “You wait here behind
this is our mentality. Of course, I have discovered this hill, and when you hear the gunshots you just
what is called human rights, what is called turn around and go inside.” Then we went silent.
civilization when I came to this country, and that is Everybody stopped smoking and just standing
how I decided to speak out. there and don’t know what to do. Probably 40 or
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