Illegal Organ Harvesting an Outgrowth of the Persecution of Falun Gong
By Long Yan
(Clearwisdom.net) In March 2006, the inside story about the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party) secretly removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in
concentration camps was uncovered. The facts were confirmed in early July by an
independent investigation conducted by former Canadian MP and Secretary of State
David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas. Because removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners is so barbaric,
many people aren't ready to face the truth and find it difficult to believe;
they don't have a clear understanding of the nature of the CCP, so they don't
believe the CCP would do such an evil thing, causing many people to wonder
what's really going on. Human organ transplant involves issues of morality and medical technology. In
1991 the World Health Assembly approved a set of "Guiding Principles"
(http://www.who.int/ethics/topics/transplantation_guiding_principles/en/) that
emphasize voluntary donation, non-commercialization, a preference for cadavers
over living donors, and a preference for genetically related donors over
non-related donors. The Chinese culture, however, has a fastidious tradition
requiring a "complete corpse," so few people are willing to donate
organs, and with the impact of medical expenses, donations of kidneys for
transplant between relatives are rare. According to a report in the Liberation
Daily on October 22, 2004: "The transplant surgery between relatives in
our country is only 0.4%, a big difference to the 50% in developed countries
such as the US." Voluntary donations from non-relatives in China are also
rare. A report in the Southern Metropolitan News on July 22, 2006 made
this point: To date China has completed 21 cases of organ donations, for a total
of 88 organs donated. In other words, China has no voluntary donation community. Speaking from a technical point of view, the blood group and white blood cell
antigens of donor and patient need to match. Because organs like the heart,
liver, and kidneys need to be transplanted quickly, donor blood typing must be
done in advance, and a blood sample information bank should be established.
China doesn't have such an information bank for all people. Due to the restrictions these necessities create, and if all the general
rules established by the international community are observed, then China could
only complete a very few legal organ transplants. Yet according to analysts,
among organ transplants in China less than 1% of the organs are legally
acquired, and the source of the other 99% is unclear. In July 2005 the Chinese
government publicly admitted removing organs from executed prisoners, but prior
to the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999 the number of organ
transplants was always low. After the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong, however, the number of organ
transplants in China increased dramatically, and now China is second only to the
US in the number of transplants performed. Moreover, China accounts for
"more than 85% of the total live organ transplant in the world after
2000." The CCP regards Falun Gong as its number one enemy, and uses any means
available in attacking "class enemies" in long-term political
movements such as the campaign against Falun Gong. Meanwhile, for huge profits
it removes organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, so the CCP's bloody
persecution of Falun Gong is the fundamental reason that China is speedily
becoming an international organ transplant center. 1) The persecution deprives Falun Gong practitioners of all their legal
rights as citizens. Falun Gong practitioners face abduction, illegal arrest, and
the loss of their personal freedom at any moment. Large numbers of Falun Gong
practitioners have been illegally detained in forced labor camps, prisons,
hospitals and other medical institutions, and have encountered brainwashing,
slave labor, torture, sexual abuse, death and other atrocities. The deaths of at
least 2978 Falun Dafa practitioners due to the persecution have been confirmed. 2) The CCP has designated Falun Gong practitioners as "class
enemies" in order to carry out the most severe attacks. The Central
Military Committee's secret documents and the government's internal regulations
further deprive Falun Gong practitioners of their human rights, regard them as
property, and allow hospitals to remove their organs just as they do death
penalty prisoners and prisoners with heavy sentences. The CCP abducts countless Falun Dafa practitioners under the authority of the
government and then illegally puts them into forced labor camps, prisons,
hospitals, concentration camps and so on, illegally removing their organs while
they are alive, and in effect criminalizing government organizations such as the
army, legal, judicial and public security organizations, and hospitals. 3) Using the guise of physical exams for health reasons and other deceitful
methods, they conduct blood tests of Falun Gong practitioners in detention and
establish blood sample data banks. When a patient needs a transplant they enter
the patient's blood data into a computer, and when the blood type matches a
Falun Gong practitioner in the database the practitioner is confirmed as the
donor. According to insiders, it goes something like this: Falun Gong
practitioners who are confirmed as organ donors are brought out of the prison,
labor camp, detention, concentration camps, or other institutions they are held
in. They lose their names and are given a code name; this code name is actually
the name of a fabricated "volunteer" who voluntarily donates the
organ. The practitioner is sent for a "physical exam" and
anesthetized, and then the organ is removed and transplanted into the body of
the patient. Finally the practitioner's body is burned to eliminate the
evidence, forever hiding the truth from the world. 4) The CCP army manages the organ transplants, and plays a very wicked role
in persecuting Falun Gong. The People's Liberation Army General Logistics
Department's subordinate medical department (independent from the State
Council's subordinate medical department) manages all of the armed forces and
armed police hospitals, and administers the removal of organs from living Falun
Gong practitioners. In summation, the CCP's inhumane persecution is the fundamental cause of
organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Forced labor camps,
prisons, hospitals, and other departments everywhere illegally detain Falun Gong
practitioners and make live organ harvesting a reality. The persecution of Falun
Gong by the CCP has many facets, but live organ harvesting is undoubtedly the
most cruel and violent part of the persecution. For more information, please see the following analyses and integration
reports: The Behind-the-scenes Plotting of Stealing Human Organs in China (1) http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/10/19/n1491866.htm
(Chinese) The Behind-the-scenes Plotting of Stealing Human Organs in China (2) http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/10/19/n1491870.htm
(Chinese) The Behind-the-scenes Plotting of Stealing Human Organs in China (3) http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/10/19/n1491873.htm
(Chinese) Looking at "A Grotesque Form of Evil New to This Planet" --
Compilation of Investigation Leads Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/10/9/78808.html David Kilgour's and David Matas' Report Into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in
China
Part 2: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/10/10/78823.html
Part 3: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/10/26/79332.html
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/23/140853.html
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