China has been harvesting organs from prisoners (typically Uighur and Feng Sung) – some even still alive – according to an international tribunal that took place in London in June. Currently, the transplant industry is worth more than 1 billion dollars, and China has been cashing in for decades.
The tribunal said it was, “The practice is of unmatched wickedness — on death for death basis — with the killings by mass crimes committed in the last century,”
In 2014 China announced it would stop the process of prisoner organ harvesting, and rely on an organ donation system similar to the US’s. However, recently there has been a boom in organ availability, with wait times going down to a week, and even orders available for “request,” implying someone will be killed for the organs. For comparison, the average wait for the organ transplant in the US is three to five years.
An international tribunal was held on June 15 in order to determine whether or not China was killing people for their organs. A culmination of testimonies and paper trail investigations culminated in a hard yes. It’s confirmed they are targeting practitioners of the Falun Gong, a religious minority that China has declared as an “evil cult”, and heavily suspected they’re doing the same to Uighurs. This is confirmed by Chinese pamphlets about avoiding it.
Falun Gong is a Buddhist sect founded in 1992 and is centered around meditation, elimination of attachment, and spiritual enlightenment. Because of the size and sway the religion had by the late 90s (an estimated 70 million), the PRC denounced the religion and began prosecuting the practitioners. They were and still are scared of the religion taking away their power.
With the Uighurs, it’s a different story. The Chinese are “terrified” of Islamic terrorism and send them to “re-education centers” to de-radicalize them. They’re forced
One witness, Dr. Enver Tohti, a Chinese surgeon, was forced to operate on a live body. “What I recall is with my scalpel, I tried to cut into his skin, there was blood to be seen. That indicates that the heart was still beating … At the same time, he was trying to resist my insertion, but he was too weak.”