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Hard to Believe (2015)

Tagged: Anti-socialism, Democide, Government as torturer

Organ harvesting of political prisoners by the Chinese government is exposed in this PBS-aired documentary. [ Hard to Believe credits: Dir: Ken Stone, Irene Silber/ 56 min/ Documentary/ Democide, Anti-socialism, Government as torturer]

External Reviews

“This documentary is extremely important for those involved in organ donation and transplantation, human rights, healthcare, ethics, and the law…The credentials of the interviewed experts are impeccable.”
–Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

” This illuminating, often deeply unsettling PBS-aired documentary, Hard to Believe, is highly recommended.”
— Video Librarian, The Video Review Magazine for Libraries

“This chilling documentary is a cry for help – its purpose to spread awareness about the forced live organ harvesting of falun gong practitioners in China, to a world which seems intentionally oblivious to these unspeakable atrocities.”
–Altmedia

“Hard to Believe investigates claims that the Chinese government has been farming organs from still-living prisoners of conscience. But it focuses largely on why the world has failed to act in the face of overwhelming evidence that such practices are being carried out. The problem, it concludes, is that the abuses against Falun Gong in China are impossible to comprehend.”
–The Daily Beast

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Related Film: Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Four Films
Stop Organ Harvesting in China
Wikipedia: Organ transplantation in China

“Doctors and medical students working in state-run civilian and military hospitals take up to 11,000 organs a year from donors under no anesthetic to supply China’s lucrative ‘organs on-demand’ transplant program, say a network of investigators comprised of international researchers, doctors and human rights lawyers attempting to end the macabre abuses.”
The Sydney Morning Herald: China’s gruesome live organ harvest exposed in documentary

“In an effort to increase the chances of successful transplant, Gutmann writes, the organs are often taken from prisoners while they are still alive. Gutmann estimates that to date, more than 64,000 Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this fate, with more being added to the count every day.”
NY Post: China’s long history of harvesting organs from living political foes

“Phone interviews by David Kilgour and David Matas revealed that in 17 locations in China, organs were procured from detained Falun Gong practitioners. This suggests that organ harvesting in China is a widespread, systematic, state-sanctioned atrocity.”
–DAFOH: Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

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