World News | Forced organ harvesting prevails in China despite attempts by human rights activists

Beijing [China]April 22 (ANI): Forced organ harvesting is still prevalent in China despite repeated attempts by doctors and human rights activists, Voices Against Authoritarianism (VAA) reports.

A recent report by Dr. Matthew Robertson and Dr. Jacob Lavee, published in the American Journal of Transplantation in 2022, concluded that there are at least 71 irrefutable cases in which physicians were responsible for killing patients by removing organs before brain death, thereby Violated key donor transplant rules not removing organs from living donors.

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Organ harvesting in China reportedly began with living prisoners in the 1970s, but it didn’t really become a national practice until Jiang Zemin came to power in the 1990s. After establishing the threat Falun Gong posed to the Communist Party, he began working to root out the movement in July 1995, reportedly ordering their organ harvesting, according to the VAA.

“The ultimate conclusion is that the Chinese Communist Party has engaged the state in the mass murder of innocents, primarily practitioners of the spiritual-based practice, Falun Gong, but also Uyghurs, Tibetans, and some family Christians criminals in order to obtain organ transplants,” a June 2016 paper published over seven years by former Asia-Pacific Secretary of State David Kilgour, human rights lawyer David Matas and London-based investigative journalist Ethan Gutman 680-page report entitled “Blood Harvest and more than 2,400 references on the subject.

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China has long had a cultural practice of leaving dead bodies intact after death, raising the question of where Chinese patients can get their much-needed organs, the VAA reported.

In other countries, transplant wait times are often months or years. China, by contrast, has been able to shorten that time to days or weeks, and sometimes spare organs from living recipients can continue to be used during the procedure.

After the crackdown on Falun Gong, the number of hospitals performing organ transplants increased from 150 in 1999 to nearly 1,000 in 2007.

Additionally, prison officials are working with the hospital to split the cost of the transplant equally, with the 610 Office tasked with ensuring the confidentiality of the entire process and subsequently deleting prisoner data from all hospital records, the VAA reported.

The doctors claimed to be forced to participate in the whole process, often performing more than 20 such operations every day, suffering from symptoms similar to PTSD, and were forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure their cooperation and voluntary participation.

China has long denied propaganda for live organ harvesting, but established a voluntary organ donation system in 19 provinces for the first time in 2010.

More than a generation has passed since China began to persecute nearly 100 million Falun Gong practitioners. The shortage of transplant donors has led to the search for a new minority to oppress, namely Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Province.

Hospitals in Beijing have even produced marketing videos targeting oil-rich Middle Eastern clients, promising to provide them with “halal” organs if they choose to come to China for medical tourism, the VAA reported. (Arnie)

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