Investigative Journalist and author, Ethan Gutmann, witnesses the crackdown of Falun Gong, a spiritual, meditation practice with its roots in Buddhist philosophy. Gutmann questioned Falun Gong practitioners who gave alarming accounts of having undergone physical examinations and being blood-tested while in detention.
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 2 - Experiment on the Frontier
Former Surgeon Enver Tohti describes being asked to remove an organ from an unknown person while they were still alive. He performed the surgery in the Xinjiang autonomous region in Northwestern China where Uyghur Musilms are the majority population. Enver's guilt pushed him to speak out to the world about what he did.
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 3 - The Canadian Investigation
Human rights lawyers, David Matas and Kilgour, investigate claims of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party. Through their research, David Matas and Kilgour found a striking number of organs available “on-demand.”
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 4 - The Israeli Response
Dr. Jacob Levee, President of the Israel Society of Transplantation had been told by one of his patients who had been waiting for over a year for a heart to become available, that their insurance company now recommended they go to China to schedule an organ transplantation. The heart transplant had been arranged two weeks in advance at the Chinese hospital. Levee, shocked, looked further into the suspicious claims.
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 5 - A Cry for Help
Jeff Nenarella documents the story of Xiaodang Wang, a shy woman whose father was one of the first Falun Gong practitioners to be detained at the start of the crackdown in 1999, to humanize the massive scale of the persecution that has affected millions in China.
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 6 - The Third Rail
As the U.S. congress hesitantly votes to pass resolution 281, condemning the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses against Falun Gong, Ethan Gutmann promotes his book, "The Slaughter" which gives irrefutable evidence to the claim that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering a genocidal persecution in China.
HARD TO BELIEVE - Chapter 7 - Hard To Believe
Dr.Torston Trey founds Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH). DAFOH presented their findings to the UN who remains silent. Many doctors, including Arthur Caplan, PHD, the director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the United States have raised the alarm however and are pushing the Western world to confront and condemn the CCP for its crimes against humanity.
