A former journalist based in mainland China has released explosive allegations from an anonymous whistleblower said to be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official within China’s civil affairs system, claiming that more than 500 million people died in China within five years following the COVID-19 outbreak.
According to the claims, a whopping 387 million people died during the three years of pandemic lockdowns, while another 153 million died in the two years after China ended its “zero-COVID” policy. The whistleblower further alleges that a significant portion of deaths were linked not to COVID or vaccines, but to forced organ harvesting, with millions of bodies missing organs allegedly disposed of without being counted as deaths.
The allegations, which have not yet been independently verified, have nonetheless sent shockwaves through overseas Chinese communities.
On Jan. 25, overseas commentator and former mainland journalist Zeng Jieming disclosed on X (via the account “Xiufeng Zhenren”) that he received the whistleblower’s report on Jan. 24. Zeng stressed that he cannot verify the authenticity of the information, though parts of it align with long-held suspicions.
The whistleblower claims China’s population never reached 1.4 billion. According to the report, China’s 2010 Sixth National Census recorded a population of 1.3397 billion, but the 2020 Seventh Census allegedly found only 1.0933 billion people, a drop of more than 200 million over ten years.
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