Reports continue to expand on one of the most amazing stories in 2006: China harvests organs from prisoners. The Falun Gong have been claiming that China is taking the organs from arrested Falun Gong practitioners... most arrests are unjustified and inhumane. Now we begin to see the Chinese Military connection to the practice. As this story unfolds, we will have to decide if China is ready to stand with the civilized world, and be considered an equal.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
January 31, 2007: Investigations into the growing organ transplant industry in China indicate that a major player is the Chinese military. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplant. Since China still executes hundreds of criminals each year, and has thousands of political prisoners, who often go into prison camps and just disappear, there always seems to be available organs for transplant in China. Desperate, and well heeled, foreigners come to China, get their life-saving transplant, and notice that there are a lot of military personnel working in the hospitals. The military is a major player in Chinese medical care, with a large network of hospitals for its millions of troops and their dependents.
Study: China's Army Harvesting Body Parts From Live Prisoners, Particularly Falun Gong Members
China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.
The report's authors — Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.
"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,'' Kilgour said at a press conference.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
January 31, 2007: Investigations into the growing organ transplant industry in China indicate that a major player is the Chinese military. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplant. Since China still executes hundreds of criminals each year, and has thousands of political prisoners, who often go into prison camps and just disappear, there always seems to be available organs for transplant in China. Desperate, and well heeled, foreigners come to China, get their life-saving transplant, and notice that there are a lot of military personnel working in the hospitals. The military is a major player in Chinese medical care, with a large network of hospitals for its millions of troops and their dependents.
Study: China's Army Harvesting Body Parts From Live Prisoners, Particularly Falun Gong Members
China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.
The report's authors — Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.
"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,'' Kilgour said at a press conference.
