From: Anna M* 
Subject: IUFO: Fw: Another bloody harvest
Date: 5 Sep 2000 22:59:50 -0400
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Another horror story. Please, read it.
Anna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Sturges" 
To: "ph-l" 
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: Another bloody harvest


> Did anyone else see this?
>
> Certain Internet discussions have begun to take an interest, with rumors
of
> up to US$60B in income to the Chinese Treasury, oligarchs and, of course,
> international intermediaries from the trade. A little quick arithmetic
shows
> that this would entail 200,000 transplants a year at $300K profit each. I
> don't know if this is possible or not, but I presume it would require
> something less than that number of young prisoners being executed and
> "voluntarily" donating all their organs.
>
> It's a strange world we live in, folks.
>
> Best,
> Jim
>
> >
> > MONDAY
> > JULY 3
> > 2000
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Human organs --
> > another Chinese export
> > Executed prisoners provide vast harvest
> > of 'fresh' body parts for sale
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > "They told me my kidney came from an executed prisoner because you get
> > them fresh that way. From the taking out of the kidney, it is only a few
> > hours to get it transplanted in me."
> >
> > So said one of six patients recovering from a transplant operation at
> > Huaxi University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, China, whose comments
> > were recorded secretly on videotape in 1994 by Chinese dissident and
> > former political prisoner Harry Wu.
> >
> > Five other patients in the room had also received a "fresh" kidney that
> > day. It is unlikely that it was a mere coincidence that, on that same
> > day, the Chinese government carried out a mass execution only 10 miles
> > away.
> >
> > The People's Republic of China has long used mass executions for
> > political and criminal justice purposes, but it now appears that there
> > is another purpose to mass executions: to bring in revenue for the
> > Chinese government through the harvesting and sale of the organs from
> > executed "criminals."
> >
> > In Zhengzhou City, a hospital worker who had many times extracted organs
> > at execution sites, told Wu, "A shot in his head, blow away his brain,
> > and the guy is brain dead. He has no more thinking, ceases to be a human
> > being, just a thing, and we use the waste."
> >
> > T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA testified on the organ harvesting
> > at a 1998 hearing before the House Government Reform and Oversight
> > Committee.
> >
> > "Amnesty International reported on this practice in 1993 and called at
> > that time for the Chinese government to ban the use of organs from
> > executed prisoners without their free and informed consent," said Kumar.
> > "However, the use of organs from this source continues in China,
> > reportedly on a widespread scale."
> >
> > Executed prisoners
> > The Chinese apply the death penalty to a much broader set of crimes than
> > in Western nations.
> >
> > "In China," Kumar testified, "there are about 68 offenses punishable by
> > death, including reselling value-added tax receipts, theft, burglary,
> > hooliganism, seriously disrupting public order, pimping, trafficking of
> > women, taking of bribes, corruption, forgery and tax evasion."
> >
> > Ninety percent of the organs used for transplants in China, Kumar said,
> > come "from executed prisoners."
>
> > (snip)
> >
> > In 1994, posing as a businessman seeking a kidney for a relative, Wu
> > took a hidden video camera to an organ-marketing office in Hong Kong. In
> > a room complete with sales brochures, a saleswoman assured Wu that "all
> > organs [for sale] are from brain-dead people and have been donated
> > voluntarily."
> >
> > 'Easily arranged'
> > At First University Hospital in Chengdu, Wu videotaped a Chinese doctor
> > making a sales pitch to someone he thought was a prospective organ
> > buyer.
> >
> > "The quality of our kidneys is better than in America," said the doctor,
> > "because we can remove the kidney fast and at the appropriate time.
>
> (sniP)
>
> > On Jan. 9, the South China Morning Post reported, "Organs from executed
> > prisoners are being offered for up to $300,000 each to Hong Kong liver
> > transplant patients who travel to a mainland hospital."
> >
> > A reporter from the paper, inquiring about the possibility of a liver
> > transplant for a friend, was told by a doctor at Sun Yat Sen University
> > of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, "[T]he organs are of good quality as
> > they come from young prisoners."
> >
>
>
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