{"id":1484833,"date":"2022-05-19T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484833"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:00:48","slug":"he-was-a-live-donor-for-the-first-time-we-have-proof-of-chinas-organ-harvesting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-was-a-live-donor-for-the-first-time-we-have-proof-of-chinas-organ-harvesting-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Was A Live Donor\u2019: For The First Time, We Have Proof Of China\u2019s Organ Harvesting Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhe-was-a-live-donor-for-the-first-time-we-have-proof-of-chinas-organ-harvesting-operation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/China-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Dr. Enver Tohti, a former physician in China, remembers the day with horror. The whistleblower said his chief surgeon approached him and asked, \u201cDo you want to do something wild?\u201d The surgeon then took Dr. Tohti and other medical professionals to the site of a public execution, pointed to one of the criminals, and told him, \u201cAs quick as possible, remove the liver and two kidneys.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThen, I saw he was alive,\u201d Dr. Tohti, who is now an Uber driver in London, recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RH0F75tpD_A\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Vice TV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stories of China harvesting organs from live \u201cdonors\u201d have proliferated for decades, but a new and credible scholarly article has exposed concrete evidence that China has engaged in the gruesome practice. <\/span><span>R<\/span><span>esearchers Matthew P. Robertson of Australia and Jacob Lavee of Israel<\/span> <span>combed through 2,838 papers on Chinese organ transplantation published in medical journals, covering prisoner organ donations between <\/span><span>1980 and 2015.<\/span><span> They <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/ajt.16969\"><span>published<\/span><\/a><span> their findings on April 4 in an article titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AJT-Execution-by-organ-procurement.pdf\"><span>Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d in the American Journal of Transplantation, a peer-reviewed journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pair looked for discrepancies between donors being declared \u201cbrain dead\u201d and the circumstances of their medical treatment. According to the paper, in Western medicine one can only be declared brain dead after intubation and receiving the apnea test on a ventilator. In dozens of cases in China, they found that that did not take place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe removal of the heart during organ procurement must have been the proximate cause of the donor\u2019s death\u201d in cases documented in 71 papers, they wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In at least one case, \u201cintubation took place <\/span><i><span>after<\/span><\/i><span> sternal incision as surgeons examined the beating heart\u201d of the \u201cdonor.\u201d (Emphasis in original.) They quote an account from a 1995 journal article:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The donor was intravenously injected with heparin 3mg\/kg 1h before the operation\u2026 The heartbeat was weak and the myocardium was purple. After assisted ventilation through tracheal intubation, the myocardium turned red and the heartbeat turned strong\u2026 The donor heart was extracted with an incision from the 4th intercostal sternum\u2026 This incision is a good choice for field operation where the sternum cannot be sawed open without power.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Robertson told me it is important that the media not misreport their data about live organ transplants. \u201cIt\u2019s not that there were only 71 of this sort,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s 71 that we found.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He and his co-author are almost certainly undercounting the incidences when CCP officials killed prisoners by removing their beating hearts, because they counted only those officially documented in medical journals. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how many transplants actually end up in a medical paper,\u201d said Robertson. \u201cIt could be one in 100; it could be one in 1,000; it could be 1 in 10.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but estimates abound \u2014 and none of the numbers add up. In 2019, the China Tribunal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinatribunal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ChinaTribunal_JUDGMENT_1stMarch_2020.pdf\"><span>found<\/span><\/a><span> that Chinese physicians likely performed 60,000 to 90,000 organ transplants a year from 2000 to 2014, but the number of eligible organ donors registered in 2017 numbered only 5,146. Another estimate places the number of organs taken from Falun Gong practitioners at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.david-kilgour.com\/2015\/speech_04212015.pdf\"><span>41,500<\/span><\/a><span> over a five-year period. For his part, <\/span><span>Robertson said once Chinese Communist Party officials perfected the process, they employed this form of organ removal \u201cprobably with all heart transplants\u201d in the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Allegations of Chinese Communist organ harvesting stretch back decades. U.S. congressional hearings on the topic go back as far as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/02\/24\/nyregion\/us-says-2-chinese-offered-organs-from-the-executed.html\"><span>1998<\/span><\/a><span>. At a subsequent House hearing in 2012, representatives described how Chinese Communist Party officials ordered organs from prisoners the way others order <\/span><i><span>hors d\u2019oeuvres <\/span><\/i><span>off a menu. \u201cThey were able to put in the order, and then the wardens at various prisons would fill that order,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-112hhrg75859\/html\/CHRG-112hhrg75859.htm\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> pro-life Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ). Between U.S. hearings, the United Nations broached the topic in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/06\/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations?LangID=E&#038;NewsID=27167\"><span>2006 and 2007<\/span><\/a><span>, but to no avail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All investigators agree that China targets prisoners for such organ donations \u2014 many of whom are imprisoned because of their faith. \u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has engaged the State in the mass killings of innocents, primarily practitioners of the spiritually-based set of exercises, Falun Gong, but also Uyghurs, Tibetans, and select House Christians, in order to obtain organs for transplants,\u201d David Matas, a senior legal counsel for B\u2019nai Brith Canada, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/FA\/FA16\/20160623\/105116\/HHRG-114-FA16-Wstate-MatasD-20160623.pdf\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Congress in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last June, a group of UN experts warned organ harvesting from disfavored minorities continues apace. \u201cForced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities held in detention,\u201d they <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/06\/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations?LangID=E&#038;NewsID=27167\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>. They found that Chinese officials performed blood tests and organ examinations on the prisoners (who were often held without charges) then logged the results in a database of living organ donors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey performed three blood tests but gave me no results,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/china-falun-gong-harvesting-human-organs-huge-scale\/3390235.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Falun Gong practitioner Ma Chunmei, who was imprisoned in 2002. \u201cAfter I was released from the camp, one of [the Falun] practitioners, who happened to be a doctor, told me they were doing a bone marrow test to see if my kidney was a match.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The healthy lifestyle of religious practitioners, who eschew alcohol and cigarettes, makes their unsullied organs particularly valuable for transplantation. During testing, only bad news brings good news. Falun Gong adherent Jennifer Zeng <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/organ-harvesting-china-survivors-victims\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> she escaped forced organ donation in a Chinese labor camp only because she had Hepatitis C. But sometimes ill health does not spare prisoners, or the organ\u2019s recipients, from the death penalty. A 14-year-old girl from Saudi Arabia <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/FA\/FA16\/20160623\/105116\/HHRG-114-FA16-Wstate-DelmonicoF-20160623.pdf\"><span>died<\/span><\/a><span> after she received a tainted kidney transplant from a Chinese prisoner in exchange for $200,000, according to testimony offered by a Harvard Medical School professor at a congressional hearing in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately, the West does not have clean hands. Reports of Westerners traveling to China for illicit organ transplants proliferate. Also, \u201cplastinated body parts from China have been sold to medical schools and universities throughout the Western world,\u201d said Matas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, the United States has made the problem worse by exporting medical technology to Beijing. The U.S. has sold China extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines, which prolong the amount of time human organs can be harvested. \u201c<\/span><span>Before ECMO, a victim\u2019s few salvageable organs were worth maybe $250,000,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/01\/chinese-dissidents-are-being-executed-for-their-organs-former-hospital-worker-says\/\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> Stephen Mosher of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pop.org\/\"><span>Population Research Institute<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cNow, with ECMO, every organ can be harvested \u2014 even the skin \u2014 and the victim is easily worth two or three times as much.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China officially denies these allegations and publicly claims it put an end to any disreputable organ donation practices in 2015. Robertson admitted that \u201c2015 is the last year we had positive findings\u201d for live human organ transplants in their data sample. \u201cThere are two possible explanations,\u201d he told me. While it is possible that China kept its word, \u201cit\u2019s also possible that an order went out to medical journals to stop publishing this stuff, and it just happened to coincide with the 2015 ban.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re skeptical of official claims,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such well-founded allegations illustrate that China may commit virtually any human rights abuse with impunity. Despite decades of eyewitness testimony and expert confirmation, the West has applied no meaningful sanctions to those responsible. Under Pope Francis, even the Vatican has maintained and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/feb\/06\/vatican-defends-inviting-chinese-ex-minister-huang-jiefu-to-organ-trafficking-talks\"><span>publicly defended<\/span><\/a><span> its cordial relations with Communist China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These allegations also illustrate the legacy media\u2019s perpetually favorable coverage of the People\u2019s Republic of China. \u201cChina used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending,\u201d The Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/in-the-face-of-criticism-china-has-been-cleaning-up-its-organ-transplant-industry\/2017\/09\/14\/d689444e-e1a2-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> its readers in 2017. \u201cChina vows to battle corruption in organ harvesting,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/organ-transplants-china-1.3808084\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> the Associated Press a year earlier. But human rights attorney Hamid Sabi told the UN Human Rights Council in 2019 that forced organ harvesting in China \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-rights-organ-harvesting\/u-n-urged-to-investigate-organ-harvesting-in-china-idUSKBN1W92FL\"><span>continues today<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such silence makes it all the more important for Western media outlets to cover these atrocities. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-enemy-within-how-americas-elites-sold-us-out-to-china\"><span>China and their advocates<\/span><\/a><span> will do everything they can to belittle or discredit\u201d such findings, said Andrew Bremberg, a former ambassador and now CEO of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/\"><span>Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cAnd all too often, people in the U.S. and the West will do their best to ignore\u201d them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But in order for such human rights abuses to end, the West must act. Thanks to Robertson and Lavee\u2019s research, some of the doctors who took part in China\u2019s forced organ harvesting are now known, Bremberg said. \u201cBut we don\u2019t know all of their relationships with U.S. or other Western-based hospitals or universities, or whether they collaborate or publish with other Western academics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A bipartisan collection of legislators \u2014<\/span><span> Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), and Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) \u2014 introduced the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act last March. The bill would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/bipartisan-legislation-to-combat-forced-organ-harvesting-introduced-in-senate-and-house\"><span>allow<\/span><\/a><span> U.S. officials to identify and sanction those involved in organ harvesting, including revoking their passports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s past time to hold Beijing accountable for these heinous acts,\u201d said Sen. Cotton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Enver Tohti, a former physician in China, remembers the day with horror. 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