Dr. Enver Tohti, a surgeon and human rights activist against organ harvesting in China, reported at the IGFM annual meeting in Bonn about the extent of organ harvesting in China and about the consequences of nuclear weapons testing from 1966-1996.SpSpeech by Dr. Enver Tohti, a surgeon and human rights activist against organ harvesting in China, reported at the IGFM annual meeting in Bonn about the extent of organ harvesting in China and about the consequences of nuclear weapons testing from 1966–1996.

Bonn, April 11, 2026

Now it is time to turn our gaze to China. As you all know, I am a Uyghur, so we will talk about China and the Uyghurs. Especially about the Uyghurs living in China. China is currently in the headlines, and there are many different views about China. Some say China is a great superpower. Others say China is going down. And I would say: China looks like it is going down – but for that, we must exert pressure.

My homeland is called Xinjiang. Since China took over this area, they have turned it into a huge laboratory. They tested nuclear weapons. They tested biological weapons. Then they put the Uyghurs into concentration camps to test medications and harvest organs. That is what it looked like when I was still a child and experienced these atomic bombs. Between 1966 and 1996, 46 atomic bombs were detonated. This one here dates from 1972. When I was on my way to school, there was dust in the air, dust fell from the sky. The Chinese nuclear test site is located only about 150 km from Xinjiang. And when the atomic bombs got into the atmosphere, that was the result. We don’t want to go too much into detail here.

And as a result of the Chinese nuclear tests, the number of cancer patients throughout Xinjiang has gotten out of control. Here is a comparison between two provinces: this is Henan Province, this is Xinjiang. In Henan there is a tumor hospital, both had about 500 deaths in 1997. In 2008, the number in Henan rose to less than 1,000, but in Xinjiang to 1,000,000 beds in tumor hospitals. And remember: the population in Xinjiang is only 25 million, while here it is 100 million. That shows you the number of cancer patients. And this problem was never really addressed. The number of cancer patients is out of control.

The full lecture by Dr. Enver Tohti as a video

When I was in Taiwan giving a lecture tour, I found this sign very helpful (see photo) to orient myself. But what if you see a sign like this? “Special Transport Channel for Human Organs for Special Passengers.” This sign is located on the floor of an airport. Which airport is that? Urumqi. Where is Urumqi? The capital of Xinjiang. If you see a sign like that, you understand immediately: this city exports human organs. Does this city have highly developed technology to manufacture organs? No.

The only place where organs come from is another human being.

How can that be? Two such signs are located in Xinjiang, a sparsely populated region with only 25 million inhabitants. If we saw a sign like that in Henan, we could perhaps understand it because the population there is very large. But no – it is in Xinjiang. Whether the Chinese government harvests human organs is no longer a myth. In the past, I always had to convince the audience that organ harvesting takes place. Today, I no longer have to. Why? Because Chinese, Russian, and North Korean leaders have confirmed it. Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un have talked about extending the lifespan to 150 years. They said: by exchanging organs, one can live for 150 years. With this, these three leaders have confirmed that organ harvesting is taking place. So I am not here to prove it, but to show you the scale.

Even this is shocking: at the airport, there is a special transport route for organs. This here is an ambulance (see photo). Something is painted on the vehicle accordingly. It was stopped, and someone asked, “What is this?” Why do you need a crematorium in a van? Because there is another vehicle – a bus. It is larger than this one. It is a mobile operation center. They travel all over the country to find matching organs. If your organ matches someone, you simply disappear. And this is where your body ends up.

In China, it’s like this: if you write something on the internet, the police are at your door in less than 10 minutes. But if your child disappears, nobody knows anything, you cannot find your child. That is the greatest fear: there is no way to find your child. In China, there is a computer system that finds a matching organ in a few seconds. That is what the Chinese themselves say.

If you give a blood sample and say you need a kidney, for example, then your blood is tested and the system tells you immediately: For example, in the railway hospital of Urumqi, there is a doctor named Enver Tohti – he is your match. It goes that fast.

And what happens to me? I am accused of being a terrorist. I am accused of something – they have many allegations that one cannot even imagine. Then I disappear. And my organs are harvested.

The problem is: we have no victims who can report on it. Nobody comes out and says, “My organs were harvested.” Why not? Because they don’t want you to survive. No chance. You must die. And your body is burned.

The Chinese Minister of Health said during the National People’s Congress, similar to a parliament in the West: “You should be grateful to the Communist Party if you are still alive.” Here is a copy from a medical journal called “Yunnan Medicine” from the year 2000. This is an article by six surgeons. They report how they successfully performed an organ transplant. If it were a kidney transplant, I would have nothing to say, because you can sell a kidney and keep living. But this here is not a kidney transplant. It is a combined heart-lung transplant.

For laypeople, this article looks unremarkable. But medically trained persons immediately recognize the problem. Here it says: “After the donor was brought into the operating room, anesthesia and intubation were performed according to standard procedures.” What does that mean? The donor needed anesthesia. The donor had to be intubated. That means: the donor was alive. On the next page it says: the transplant was successful, and the recipient recovered. But they do not say what happened to the donor. Because the donor only has one heart and one pair of lungs, and he was alive when he was brought into the OR.

I want to show you: this industry is so big that even doctors involved in it do not even realize that they are committing a crime. They publish such articles openly in medical journals, in the year 2008, publicly accessible. That means: they admit that doctors kill patients in the operating room – and they do it with a kind of pride. They say, “Look, I did that.” This is China and the Communist Party.

There is much more that could be said. And today, alongside the political turbulence and the economic decline, the biggest worry of people in China is: is their child coming home from school? So many children disappear. And this number keeps growing.

Thank you very much.