Wednesday, January 29, 2020

The world keeps turning a blind eye to China’s crimes against the humanity of its own people.

Their 2006 "Report Into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China" shocked the consciences of all decent people.

Even though China is, to say the least, an opaque society that does not allow oversight from the outside, the evidence mounted by Kilgour and Matas in 46 grueling pages built a compelling exposé of "Large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners." The report noted that there were about 10,000 more transplants per year than "Identifiable sources" for the organs that were procured.

As shocking as these conversations are, the most compelling evidence of systemic wrongdoing in Chinese organ-procurement practices could be found in the breathtakingly brief time purchasers had to wait to receive a properly matched organ in China - often as short as a week, a period so brief that the authors worried that "There are a number of people now alive who are available almost on demand as sources of organs."

In The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, published in 2014, China expert and author Ethan Gutmann estimated that between 2001 and 2008 some 65,000 organs were harvested from Falun Gong.

Illustrating the factual basis for the charge of mass organ harvesting from political prisoners, in the 2009 book Larry's Kidney Daniel Asa Rose tells the story of traveling with his cousin Larry to buy a new kidney in China.

As Shea put it, "China is developing the most comprehensive means of totalitarian control the world has ever imagined." Worse, "It is almost invisible because observers have no access." In other words, we know that China has established concentration camps in Uyghur territory because our satellites have photographed them.

China is as dependent on international commercial relations with other countries as they are on it - and that presents a potential way forward in which the private sector can moderate China's despotism against its own people.


https://spectator.org/the-fourth-reich/

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