STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "One of the most gruesome human-rights abuses in today's world is China's trafficking of its own executed prisoners' body parts to American residents. This atrocity was documented by testimony given June 27th during a U.S. congressional hearing." Subj: China Olympic Organs? Date: 7/12/01 1:54:41 AM Mexico Daylight Time From: MsDarkstarOne To: MsDarkstarOne [Sounds like Las Vegas Nevada; they miss kidneys there quite frequently] Subject: ORGANS FOR SALE - Attention Copwatch!! From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">Ken4bikes@. usa.NOSPAMnet </A> (Ken (NY)) Date: 7/7/01 10:53 AM Mexico Daylight Time Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organs for Sale A gruesome human-rights abuse, courtesy of China. By Ann Noonan, policy director for the Laogai Foundation July 6, 2001 9:00 a.m. One of the most gruesome human-rights abuses in today's world is China's trafficking of its own executed prisoners' body parts to American residents. This atrocity was documented by testimony given June 27th during a U.S. congressional hearing. Congressman Henry Hyde, the chairman on International Relations, in a press release stated: By some estimates 90 percent of transplants performed in China use human organs taken from executed prisoners. Amnesty International reports that some prisoners are executed for such crimes as "counter-revolutionary offenses" a code word for pro-democracy activism. Holiday executions and "Strike Hard" campaigns are designed to facilitate organ harvesting of executed prisoners with the payments for transplants funneled to China's military. During her opening statement of the hearing, Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairman of the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights referred to a 1984 document from China's Public Health Ministry entitled "Provisions Regulations on the Use of Dead Bodies or Organs from Condemned Criminals." "This document states that those who are sentenced to death are to be executed immediately by means of shooting. We will hear testimony about how this translates into a shot to the heart of corneas are needed, and a shot to the back of the head for other organs. Family members of the executed prisoners are forced to pay for the bullets used." With the assistance of a translator, Wang Guoqi, a former doctor at a Chinese People's Liberation Army hospital who left the PRC in Spring, 2000, testified: "My work required me to remove skin and corneas from the corpses of over one hundred executed prisoners, and, on a couple of occasions, victims of intentionally botched executions. It is with deep regret and remorse for my actions that I stand here today testifying against the practices of organ and tissue sales from death row prisoners." Dr. Wang detailed one incident in October, 1995 in Hebei Province that has "tortured" his conscience ever since, when a prisoner did not die after receiving the execution shot to the head. Dr. Wang and other burn surgeons were ordered to harvest skin off of the half-dead and convulsing prisoner whose kidneys were extracted immediately by three other doctors. Inside the ambulance, they began to remove the skin, but due to an angry growing crowd outside, they left the job "half-done and the half-dead corpse was thrown in a plastic bag onto the flatbed of a crematorium truck." Dr. Wang stated, "Whatever impact I have made in the lives of burn victims and transplant patients does not excuse the unethical and immoral manner of extracting organs." Dr. Wang is seeking political asylum in the U.S. Dr. Thomas Diflo, the director of the Renal Transplant Program at New York University Medical Center, testified that he and his colleagues in the New York area provide follow-up care for Chinese-American patients who had returned from China with "freshly" transplanted kidneys from executed prisoners in China. He was repulsed after learning the source of his patients' new kidneys, and personally questioned any role he might be playing in facilitating China's "nonconsensual taking of organs and making human body parts a commodity." "These were patients who needed, and deserved, our good care, yet they had obtained their organs under what we considered morally and ethically reprehensible circumstances," he Dr. Diflo stated. The New York doctor told how he brought his concerns before Ethics Committee at his hospital and the press, and how he is personally and professionally determined "to get to the root of the problem by attempting to 'spread the word.'" During the hearing, Dr. Diflo insisted that "the rumors and allegations about the use of prisoners' organs in China are unequivocally true." He urged the US Congress to implement "any sanctions or actions that can be taken against China to force them to desist in this outrageous violation of human rights." Harry Wu, the executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation who suffered in China's Laogai for 19 years, testified that he has been aware of this cruel reality of selling human organs from executed Chinese prisoners since 1985. During his testimony, Mr. Wu explained, "The Chinese government controls and operates a system to harvest organs from executed prisoners and ensures its secrecy." He stated, "There is no national public registry for people to voluntarily register their consent to donate their organs after their death. Only this year small-scale experiments commenced in Shanghai to open city-wide registry. That's as far as it goes outside of the source of thousands of executed prisoners." Mr. Wu explained, "Families are often not notified of the date of the execution until after it is already carried out, making it impossible for them to offer consent for the harvesting of organs." Mr. Wu presented a copy of the Laogai Research Foundation's May 2001 report, "Communist Charity, A Comprehensive Report on the Harvesting of Organs from the Executed Prisoners of the People's Republic of China" to the House International Operations ad Human Rights Subcommittee. In his report, Mr. Wu further condemns China's practice for its failure to "involve few charitable intentions toward ailing patients. As all official realized the revenue source available from desperate and dying individuals and the abundance of organs to be harvested from death row prisoners, greed became an obvious priority. It is generally not the elderly Chinese peasant on dialysis that receives a kidney from an executed criminal, rather, it is usually rich foreigners and politically or economically privileged Chinese. Professor Nancy Scheler-Hughes, program director of Organ Watch, congratulated Dr. Thomas Dilio and Harry Wu for their courage to expose China's lucrative and state-sponsored business. During her testimony, she explained her expertise in monitoring organ-transplantation programs throughout the world. While she cited to illicit practices of organ harvesting in other areas of the world, she stated how, " the complicity of Chinese doctors in these highly medicalized executions whereby the condemned prisoner is carefully examined, incubated, and "prepped" for organs harvesting minutes before he is executed by a bullet to the head, is reminiscent of Nazi medicine as practiced in the death camps." Members of Congress who attended the hearing expressed their dedication to promoting a bipartisan effort ensure that the U.S. does not become an accomplice to the PRC and their deplorable practice. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen introduced H.R. 2030 to prohibit issuance of a visa, or admission to the U.S., of any Chinese physician entering the U.S. for the purpose of training in organ or bodily tissue transplantation. She reminded all present, "It has been said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing." 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