Journalists, academics and other experts told Congress at a hearing Wednesday that China has killed thousands of people to sell organs that can be used to find “exact matches” to living organs. He said there was evidence that he was building “the world’s largest DNA database.” The buyers are arrested on suspicious grounds and killed in order to sell their organs.
For decades, experts have documented evidence that China has profited enormously from the killings of political prisoners, particularly Falun Gong practitioners and Turkic Muslims, imprisoned in concentration camps in East Turkestan. It has become The evidence ranges from leaked government documents to eyewitness testimony to unexplained contradictions in China’s official organ transplant data. But this evidence has led to little condemnation of the Communist Party. The Communist Party simultaneously denies human rights atrocities and boasts record-setting numbers of organ transplants that exceed the limits of what is mathematically possible in a system that relies solely on voluntary donors. Top surgeons with ties to the Communist Party are still hailed as members of the world’s medical elite. Research by Chinese scientists with suspected links to the forced organ harvesting trade is still being published in international journals.
On Wednesday, the Congressional Executive Committee on China (CECC) held a meeting. hearing It is tackling forced organ harvesting in China and seeking an update on the damning evidence presented by researchers at previous hearings on the issue. Those in attendance included researchers Ethan Gutman and Matthew Robertson, who have led some of the most thorough studies exposing abuse, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Maya Mitalipova. warned that its voracious appetite for DNA sequence data could give China a database of civilians across the country. Scan whenever you need to find an organ donor that you don’t want to kill.
“The Chinese government is building the world’s largest DNA database, acquiring DNA sequence data from companies within China and around the world, including the United States,” Mitalipova said. explained He said this in written testimony to Congress.
“Many biotech companies are helping Chinese police build databases and may be complicit in these violations,” Mitalipova elaborated. “They include multinational companies like US-based Thermo Fisher Scientific and large Chinese companies like BGI (Beijing Genome Institute)… BGI in particular It is dangerous because it collects genetic data on Americans and uses it for research with the Chinese military.”
In 2021, Reuters reported that BGI was involved in a U.S. The company announced that it has begun efforts to explore partnerships with technology companies. In the womb.
Mitalipova suggested that the database could be used to streamline killings for organ harvesting of all kinds of people in China, not just political prisoners.
“When a patient requests organ donation in China, their DNA sequencing data is matched against millions of DNA databases stored on computers. Within minutes, an exact match is found. We will find it,” Mitalipova said, explaining a hypothetical use of the massive database. “If a potential organ donor is not in a prison or detention center, Chinese authorities could easily find a reason to detain Match for organ donation upon request.”
The professor said that the Uyghurs and other indigenous peoples of occupied East Turkistan are subject to forced blood tests and unexplained ultrasound tests on civilians who are not in concentration camps, consistent with tests taken before organ transplants. He said that he testified that he was using coercion.
Discussing the current state of China’s state-run forced organ harvesting industry, Matthew Robertson, in his written testimony, noted the growing international disgust following large-scale protests against prison organ harvesting by Falun Gong practitioners. In response to the incident, China claimed that it had carried out its own organ harvesting. But five years later, the number of organ transplants mysteriously skyrocketed.
“Since 2000, transplant wait times have gone from months to just weeks, days, and even hours,” Robertson said. “Organ transplantation has gone from being a specialized treatment primarily targeted at party officials to a routine treatment available nationwide.”
Robertson said several hospitals are “openly posting prices for various organ transplant procedures” on their websites, essentially selling organs on demand, and asking how they can do so without killing people. He pointed out that there was no explanation as to whether suitable organs could be procured as quickly as promised. “China has a state-driven human organ market, with prices openly advertised on hospital websites, and there is a huge price difference between foreign and domestic patients,” the expert said. did.
“The state’s role in enabling and profiting from this market suggests strategic exploitation of prisoners for economic gain,” he concluded.
“There is substantial evidence that Chinese prisoners were subjected to blood tests, confined, and killed in response to demands for organ harvesting,” he said. “This claim is supported by evidence and admissions from senior Chinese officials, medical experts, and official publications. Prisoners are treated here as a resource, a source of organs to be exploited if necessary.”
“Unfortunately,” he concluded, referring to China’s organ transplant data that the government claims shows it does not kill donors. [China] It appears that voluntary organ donation data was fabricated. Analysis of available data shows that official statistics show incredibly steady growth rates, inconsistencies between data sets, and misclassification of non-consensual donors as voluntary, and that China’s The veracity of the claims has been called into serious doubt. ”
Journalist Ethan Gutman Said Based on his previous research, Congress estimates that China is “harvesting” between 25,000 and 50,000 Uyghurs a year for their organs, which remains the case. The Uyghurs are majority Muslim, creating an opportunity for China to sell their “halal” organs to wealthy Muslim buyers.
“Based on the assumption that Gulf organ tourists prefer Muslim “donors” who do not eat pork, the Chinese Communist Party [Chinese Communist Party] They are trying to take advantage of the switch in information sources from Falun Gong to Uighurs. “At least one Chinese transplant hospital has blatantly published its Muslim prayer room and halal cafeteria on the web,” Gutmann told Congress.
Gutmann noted that the infrastructure around at least one hospital in Aksu, part of occupied East Turkestan, included what appeared to be a crematorium and the transport necessary to send organs east. did.
“The ‘First Hospital of Zhejiang Province,’ designated as the ‘big brother’ of Aksu infection hospitals, reported a 90 percent increase in liver transplants and a 200 percent increase in kidney transplants in 2017,” Gutman recalled. “On March 1, 2020, First Hospital performed the world’s first double-lung transplant on a patient infected with COVID-19. This is an advertisement to foreign organ tourists that China is still open for business. was.”
“Realistically, the harvesting infrastructure may be too strong to save Uyghur and Kazakh lives in the short term,” Gutman lamented.
“However, Congress can stop the Chinese government’s continued attempts to normalize medical aberrations, and the passage of the Stop Organ Harvesting Act will help the international transplant community to increase research and investigation into organ harvesting in China. “It could be an opportunity to stop seeing it as inflammatory,” he concluded. We seek justice on behalf of young men and women whose only crime was “being healthy.” ”
The Stop Organ Harvesting Act was introduced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who co-chaired the session with U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and passed the House. Merkley introduced it in the Senate, but it hasn’t moved forward yet. Among other provisions, it would allow for sanctions against individuals found to be enabling or participating in China’s forced organ harvesting industry.
“China’s forced organ harvesting on an industrial scale is an atrocity unparalleled in its evil,” Smith said. Said Hearing. “The number of people who have been executed and their organs, including those before brain death, is astonishing.”
Mr. Smith announced that he is calling on the State Department to offer rewards to individuals who come forward and provide evidence that sheds light on China’s forced organ harvesting trade and enables punitive action.
