Belgian Newspaper De Standaard Reports on the Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners' Organs

(Clearwisdom.net) According to a report by the Belgian newspaper, De Standaard, on the 20th of April, the British Organ Transplantation Society accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of violating human rights in a press release yesterday. Britain's top-notch surgeons emphasized the recent condemnation of the CCP organs trade. Not only the organs of those who on death row were taken away without the permission of the prisoners, what was worse, the prisoners were executed when organs were needed.

The China International Organ Transplant aid center in Shenyang guaranteed that the waiting time for a suitable organ will be extremely brief. The center's website promises patients that they can get a kidney in as short a time as one week and the wait will not exceed one month. Liver transplants only take two months wait at most.

On the other hand, in Europe, North America or Japan, people wait for several months or even years to find a suitable organ. It is impossible to guarantee that in a short term the organ can be "supplied." According to Joachim De Roey, coordinator of organ transplant at the medical school of Leuven Catholic University, "We can only tell patients the average waiting period for a specific organ. It depends on different factors to find a qualified donor: blood type, organization characteristics, organ size. In fact, it is impossible to predict when an organ donor will die." It seems that this is possible in China. Therefore, people suspect that the CCP is "facilitating" such a situation.

Organ trade is a big business. Professor and surgeon Stephen Wigmore, director of the Association of British Organ Transplant Ethics Committee, expressed the same suspicion. Yesterday he said during an interview with the BBC that given the speed of finding the appropriate donor for the patient, the prisoners were executed according to the demand for organs.

Human rights organizations have sounded the alarm. Professor Wigmore said, "Recently a lot of evidence has been collected and we cannot be a detached viewer." The Falun Gong spiritual movement that has been persecuted in China released surprising news to the world in the past few months. The organization said witnesses have testified about the existence of concentration camps in China, where Falun Gong practitioners are locked up.

According to witnesses, the prisoners on death row were murdered in order to obtain their organs. Some people were still alive when their organs were taken away. Later the prisoners' corpses were destroyed to eliminate the evidence. With the establishment of an "organ transplant tour group," the organ business became more lucrative. Following in the footstep of Japan and South Korea, more and more Europeans and Americans have gone to China for organ transplant surgery.

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