There's been debate in the coronavirus thread about China and the W.H.O., I just read today on a slightly different topic that China has been carrying out forced organ harvesting on detainees, including prisoners of conscience that follow a religious/spiritual practice called 'falun Gong' which is based on buddhist principles and meditation etc..
Last year an independent tribunal found China guilty of organ harvesting, when they had said they would stop the practice of removing organs from executed prisoners back in 2014.
[Guardian june & april 2019]
extracts:
An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims include imprisoned followers of the Falun Gong movement.
The
, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was a prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said in a unanimous determination at the end of its hearings it was “certain that Falun Gong as a source - probably the principal source - of organs for forced organ harvesting”.
“The conclusion shows that very many people have died indescribably hideous deaths for no reason, that more may suffer in similar ways and that all of us live on a planet where extreme wickedness may be found in the power of those, for the time being, running a country with one of the oldest civilisations known to modern man.”
He added: “There is no evidence of the practice having been stopped and the tribunal is satisfied that it is continuing.”
The tribunal has been taking evidence from medical experts, human rights investigators and others
Among those killed, it has been alleged, are members of religious minorities such as Falun Gong. Persecution of the group began in 1999 after it had attracted tens of millions of followers and came to be seen as a threat to the communist party.
Waiting times for transplantation offered by hospitals in China were extraordinarily low, the tribunal noted, often only a couple of weeks.
[patients from all round the world who need an organ transplant have been going there, like a business, organ tourism]
It is not clear how many UK citizens have travelled to China for transplants. Waiting times for operations are said to be far shorter than in the west.
that a liver transplant could be arranged privately at a Chinese hospital for $100,000.
The Chinese embassy told the Guardian: “The Chinese government always follows the World Health Organization’s guiding principles on human organ transplant, and has strengthened its management on organ transplant in recent years. On 21 March 2007, the Chinese state council enacted the regulation on human organ transplant, providing that human organ donation must be done voluntarily and gratis. We hope that the British people will not be misled by rumours.”
The tribunal heard reports of extraction of kidneys from executed prisoners from as far back as the 1970s. Most of the evidence, however, came from 2000 onwards.
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How many more things have we turned a blind eye to in China just because it suits our business/economic model to have access to the largest cheap labour market on earth.
It's plain to anyone with a bit of common sense the communist govt of china must be routinely breaching universal human rights to keep their dictator regime afloat.
The money they've gained from all the manufacturing is partly ploughed into more state surveillance and abuse/control. We've effectively helped the communists keep power.
....Not to forget, that it will probably cost a few million to change printing plates, software code etc etc.
more disengage economically, take the manufacturing out unless they reform and scale back their communist control/brutality, the organ harvesting is just one thing they've been up to.
