Why are waiting times for a suitable liver, kidney, or heart transplant much shorter in China than in the rest of the world? Why can some procedures be planned down to the day? Experts and parliamentarians see only one possibility: hundreds of thousands of murders on demand.
Imagine that a crime against humanity is taking place that, in its monstrosity and magnitude, can only be described as genocide. For over 20 years, day after day, up to the present day, with, according to some estimates, around 1,5 million deaths. On the territory of an emerging global power and under the largely closed eyes of the world, including the German government. Hard to believe? Indeed. But those were the Volkermord an den Armenian, the Holocaust and the Genocide in Rwanda For many contemporary witnesses, too, at first. And the evidence is overwhelming.
As early as 2005, there were initial reports that since the end of the 1990s in China, not only had the organs of executed prisoners been removed for transplants, but that thousands of labor camp inmates, mainly prisoners of faith in the state-perpetrated Falun Gong meditation practice, as well as Uighurs, had been used as a "living organ pool": doctors routinely test their suitability as donors so that, if there is sufficient demand, they could be disemboweled and murdered alive at short notice in a nearby hospital.
The Chinese government consistently denied this until Huang Jiefu, director of the Chinese Organ Donation Committee and former Vice Minister of Health, admitted in 2010 that more than 90% of transplanted organs removed from deceased donors came from prisoners executed in China.
The European Parliament expresses its deep concern at the persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the People's Republic of China without the consent of the persons concerned.
European Parliament resolution on organ harvesting in China
The Chinese government's surprising admission that it was using the organs of "executed prisoners," combined with the announcement that it intended to replace this practice with a Western-style donor registry by 2015, can be seen as a successful diversionary tactic: the already sparse media coverage of the issue focused on it from then on, and the accusation of "murder to order" of victims in labor camps who were still alive at the time their organs were requested, a charge that Huang Jiefu had by no means refuted, was lost from view.
The government has consistently rejected allegations by human rights groups that the liver, heart or kidneys of those executed are often removed without prior consent and without informing their relatives.
“China ends organ harvesting from executed prisoners” – Der Spiegel
According to the Chinese government, organs from executed people were no longer to be used since 2015. However, a corresponding law was never passed. Later, it was stated that even death row inmates could "voluntarily" register in the new donor registry. The EU Parliament had already noted in its resolution how absurd the idea of thousands of voluntary organ donors is, given traditional cultural beliefs in China.
However, well-known physicians from the West also willingly participated in building the facade of a supposedly modern donor registry in China, including, of all people, the former president of the German Transplantation Society.
One of Germany's highest-ranking transplant officials is now operating in China, of all places. At a clinic where organs from executed people have been transplanted for many years.
“Limited morality” – Süddeutsche Zeitung
There's a problem with China's official transplant statistics, which is also evident in numerous other statistics from the People's Republic: They are completely falsified. The figures themselves are inconsistent.
A wealth of evidence points to what the authors believe can only be plausibly explained by systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplantation data in China.
BMC Medical Ethics
In particular, the absurdly short waiting times of just a few weeks or even days for suitable organs, even in 2020 – during the Corona crisis, for example, two lungs with the right tissue type could be found and transplanted for one patient in record time – compared to the time span of many months or even years in the rest of the world, are strong indications of an “organ pool” of people still alive for whom “ordering” one of their organs for a recipient with an identical tissue type means certain death.
The official Chinese figure of 10.000 transplants per year, with some years showing higher figures, yields an official total of 150.000 to 200.000 transplants since the persecution of Falun Gong began. This figure far exceeds all nongovernmental organization estimates of the number of death sentences. There is no plausible explanation for the origin of this number of organs other than the killing of Falun Gong adherents (and, to a lesser extent, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and House Christians) for their organs. Our update shows that the actual number of transplants is far higher than the official figures, by several hundred thousand.
BLOODY HARVEST / THE SLAUGHTER Update from Secretary of State Kilgour et al.
In addition to numerous witness statements about suspicious examinations in labor camps, and in the case of the Uyghurs, even for all members of this minority, there are also telephone admissions by participating doctors to undercover investigators posing as patients: Yes, the organs were from healthy, young Falun Gong practitioners, and the removal was, of course, carried out before death to achieve the best possible results. In plain language: The "donors" are robbed of their organs while still alive on the operating table and are thereby surgically killed.
To date, the number of transplants estimated by experts based on hospital beds and hospitals' own advertising is many times higher than the official figure. The Chinese government has yet to provide an explanation as to where all these organs are supposed to come from. Despite repeated requests, including from the German government, it has not yet provided verifiable information on the origin of the organs.
The Federal Government has no information on whether Germans travel to China for transplants. (…) The Federal Government has repeatedly raised the allegations of organ harvesting against the Chinese government, most recently in the context of the universal review process at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in the fall of 2018. It will not let up in this regard.
Response of the Federal Government to a parliamentary question
David Li (China Organ Harvest Research Center) explained that, according to his organization's research, state-organized killings are carried out in China for the purpose of organ harvesting. The victims are primarily members of the Falun Gong movement. (...) There is a "stream without a source," meaning a supply of organs for which China cannot name a credible source.
Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag
The China Court chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who served as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, declared in a unanimous decision at the end of its hearings that it was ‘certain that Falun Gong is a source – probably the main source – of organs for forced organ harvesting’.
China is harvesting organs from detainees – The Guardian - China Tribunal Judgment
Only a few countries, such as Taiwan, Israel, and Spain, have enacted explicit laws against organ tourism. Given the magnitude of this crime against humanity, which has been going on for at least 20 years and has likely claimed hundreds of thousands of victims, numerous uncomfortable questions arise for politicians, companies, medical professionals, and the media in Germany.
For example, Volkswagen produces around 50.000 vehicles per year in a joint venture with the Chinese company Saic in Xinjiang Province. The contract was signed in 2012 in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Xinjiang is home to the notorious "re-education camps" for Uyghurs.
According to its response to a parliamentary inquiry, the German government is unaware of the extent of “organ tourism” among Germans who have a new liver or heart transplanted in China from a Uighur or Falun Gong practitioner who was murdered specifically for this purpose.
Europeans travel to China and return with new organs. They carry within them what was removed from people while they were alive.
Ethan Gutmann in the Wiener Zeitung
Further information on the topic:
China Tribunal (Deutschlandfunk)
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES – S. RES. 274
Studies with organs from executed people (Spiegel Online)
Death on Demand (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Doctors against organ harvesting
Update on June 14, 2021: United Nations “very concerned”
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