Chinese Organ Harvesting - Has the World Forgotten?
Sunday, April 13 2008 @ 12:24 pm BST
Tibetan Culture & News Online - London, UK
It has been some years now since the practice of “Reverse Match” Organ Harvesting has been identified in China.
Reverse Match Organ harvesting is where a patient needs an organ and a prisoner with a healthy organ is murdered to order, the organ is removed and fitted to the patient.
Of course this kind of practice is worthy of the Nazis and we can all remember horror stories we were told of what the Nazis did to the Jew’s and other prisoners however the same condemnation does not seem to be reserved for China, which logically it should.
How can we talk to China as though it were an ordinary state when it treats its own in such a Nazi like manner?
Transplant holiday’s are quite easy to set up if you require a new organ, in little under a week a tissue match is achieved and you will receive your new organ, it is medically impossible to achieve this quick result unless you have a ready supply of tissue typed prisoners who can be shot and their organs transplanted.
Here are what some well-known politicians have said on the matter…
“We believe there has been and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners,” concludes the recent report by former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas.
“The condition of prisoners in China is increasingly well-known but it is only in recent months that a particular mistreatment - of Falun Gong practitioners - has come to light, namely the selection of prisoners for ‘reverse-match’ organ and tissue transplants, leading to their deaths. This is genocide,” said Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, who recently went to China to investigate Falun Gong abuses. He met with two practitioners in Beijing, both were arrested and one is still missing.
The British Transplantation Society says an accumulating weight of evidence suggests the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed for transplants without consent.
Professor Stephen Wigmore, who chairs the society’s ethics committee, told the BBC that the speed of matching donors and patients, sometimes as little as a week, implied prisoners were being selected before execution.
On 8 May 2006, Canada’s former Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer, David Matas, launched an investigation into the allegations of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners. The 46-page report, which was released on 7 July concludes:
“The government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and ‘people’s courts’, since 1999, have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries.”[14]
This practice continues apace in China.