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League of Young Voters Primary
Headlines : Human Rights
Summary:

An international group of doctors have joined together as Doctors Against Organ Harvesting, DAOH to “sound the alarm in the medical community about mounting evidence of unethical transplants in China. They want doctors to impress the information upon their patients.”

The formation of the group was inspired by the Kilgour-Matas report on the well-known accusations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners. The report found the facts supported the accusations with shocking consistency.

Though the report’s authors hold great credibility, the media have almost ignored the issue since their report came out. This article is a worthy exception.

[Posted By Beagle17]
By Allison Hanes
Republished from Can West News via Saskatoon Star Phoenix
International group, Doctors Against Organ Harvesting says China has turned to living donors to supply a growing trade in medical transplants

Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are harvested, then left to die, an international group of doctors armed with a chilling Canadian report is warning.

In a new twist on an old practice of using organs from executed criminals, China has since 2000 turned to living donors and outlawed Falun Gong members to supply a growing trade in medical transplants, Doctors Against Organ Harvesting said Thursday during a public forum held at the University of Toronto.

With increasing numbers of Canadians on long waiting lists turning to China to save their own lives, the newly formed organization is seeking to warn patients that someone else’s life is likely being sacrificed in the process of obtaining organs.

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Free Tibet!
Free China!

Down with the PRC!

johnnycivil @ 05/30/07 21:01:08

If you haven’t seen Dirty Little Pretty Things, out on DVD, it’s a must.

Chickenma1 @ 05/30/07 23:13:36

What is Dirty Little Pretty Things. I Googled it, but not sure what you’re referencing….

Beagle17 @ 05/31/07 00:04:53

Everyone should note that the above story is quite special in that it is one of a very small number of stories on organ harvesting and the evidence that it is real coming from a media source other than Epoch Times, which everyone loves to rail against because it is funded partly by the Falun Gong.

(Why that should matter is beyond me. Let’s see, who funds Fox, ABC, NBC, NYT, etc…?)

But this story was on an independent commercial newswire I believe.

Oh look, the article has gone to subscribe only. I think I have it FURLed though. LEt me check….

Beagle17 @ 05/31/07 00:08:39

I think this should give you a FURLed copy of the story.

Looks like you need to be signed in, or maybe just my account. I’ll reproduce it tonight and post it here.

Beagle17 @ 05/31/07 00:10:40

Sorry, it’s called Dirty Pretty Things, it’s a movie. Boo, no trailer. See wiki)

Chickenma1 @ 05/31/07 00:19:46

The original story is now by subscription only, so here is the story in full. I will risk violating copyright in the name of fighting crimes against humanity.

Organs harvested from live prisoners
Allison Hanes, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, May 18, 2007

TORONTO — Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are harvested, then left to die, an international group of doctors armed with a chilling Canadian report is warning.

In a new twist on an old practice of using organs from executed criminals, China has since 2000 turned to living donors and outlawed Falun Gong members to supply a growing trade in medical transplants, Doctors Against Organ Harvesting said Thursday during a public forum held at the University of Toronto.

With increasing numbers of Canadians on long waiting lists turning to China to save their own lives, the newly formed organization is seeking to warn patients that someone else’s life is likely being sacrificed in the process of obtaining organs.

“Each person who travels to China for an organ causes the death of another human,” said Dr. Torsten Trey, a Washington, D.C.-based physician and founding member of Doctors Against Organ Harvesting.

The group is sounding the alarm in the medical community about mounting evidence of unethical transplants in China. They want doctors to impress the information upon their patients. They want hospitals and universities to close their doors to visiting Chinese physicians and scholars looking to hone their techniques. And they want medical journals to reject research on transplants conducted in China.

“Medical science cannot build up any knowledge which is based on inhuman and unethical procedures,” said Trey, who compared China’s pilfering of organs from Falun Gong practitioners to Nazi medical experimentation during the Holocaust.

Doctors Against Organ Harvesting was formed in the wake of a Canadian investigation first released last year.

Authored by former Liberal MP David Kilgour and Winnipeg human rights lawyer David Matas, the report claims there is a widespread and systematic policy in China of selling organs from living donors to a growing clientele of desperate patients.

Kilgour said Thursday it is clear Falun Gong members are being targeted over other ethnic groups and religions, as a part of a campaign to villainize their spiritual practice since it fell out of favour with the government in 2000.

The report’s conclusions were drawn from interviews with a handful of eyewitnesses from the medical side, recipients of organs harvested in China, official government pronouncements, statistics showing a sudden explosion in the number of transplants performed, marketing Web sites and undercover inquiries to hospital.

In one instance, an Asian patient recounted that after rifling through a list of potential donors, a military doctor departed and returned to the hospital several times, bringing back a total of eight different kidneys before finally settling on a match.

In another, a sick patient found out one day he needed a transplant and had an organ within 24 hours.

Web sites market transplants in China in five different languages and in some cases guarantee availability of a matching organ within two weeks. The average wait time for a kidney in Canada is 32.5 months, while in British Columbia it is 52.5 months.

In surreptitious phone calls to Chinese transplant hospitals by Mandarin-speaking investigators, medical staff admitted organs came from Falun Gong prisoners.

While he is sympathetic to the plight of ailing Canadians who wait years for a transplant and face the prospect of dying before a match comes along, Kilgour said patients and doctors cannot turn a blind eye.

“Medicine cannot be practised by killing innocent people like chickens,” he said.

Gerry Koffman, a Toronto general practitioner and member of Doctors Against Organ Harvesting, said there are about 100 confirmed cases of Canadian patients from Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver having transplants done in China.

Beagle17 @ 05/31/07 06:17:21

You people are so gullible.

The group “Doctors Against Organ Harvesting” is a front organization run the Epoch Times. Here’s the proof:

https://www.doctorsagainstorganharvesting.org/Contact_us.php

DAOH’s PR manager, Elisabeth Reynolds, is also an Epoch Times reporter:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Elisabeth+Reynolds+Epoch+Times

And DAOH’s leader, Trey Torsten, just like everyone involved with DAOH, is closely associated with Falun Gong and Epoch Times:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Trey+Torsten+Dafa+Epoch

bobbyfletcher @ 05/31/07 16:26:01

So. Epoch Times has never steered me wrong before. Why would they start now?

athena @ 05/31/07 16:29:54

“So. Epoch Times has never steered me wrong before. Why would they start now?”

I don’t know for sure what is true and what is not here but you honestly can’t see why Epoch Times might be suspect in this particular story?

Not_Uberche @ 05/31/07 20:52:55

I was just playing. I’m not paying attention in the slightest.

athena @ 05/31/07 21:12:01

If anyone is interested, and is near the DC area – check out the neocons that run the “Friends of Falun Gong” non-profit (and their million dollar budget.)

Or goto Wikipedia and check out this republican group called “The Blue Team”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Team

Their job is to drum the fascist rally cry to demonize China. We were supposed to go to war with China 6 years ago, except 9/11 happened.

I ain’t saying China’s perfect, but keep you eyes open for propaganda. Heck don’t trust me – check the links I cited just to make sure I’m not BSing you.

bobbyfletcher @ 06/01/07 00:22:12

“Their job is to drum the fascist rally cry to demonize China. We were supposed to go to war with China 6 years ago, except 9/11 happened.”

America can’t go to war with China. It would destroy both countries, especially America as China’s already pretty fucked up.

Not_Uberche @ 06/01/07 00:24:20

Sadly, China is right up there with Iran, if the Quadrennial Defense Review is to be believed.

Watson @ 06/01/07 00:32:07

Thanks Watson:

“China is being built up to play the role of the New Soviet Union”

NU, I’m not talking about full out invasion like Iraq, but the fact that we manufacture our enemies.

bobbyfletcher @ 06/01/07 00:46:51

You honestly think the US was going to go to cold war with China when the majority of crap people buy and use in America is stamped with ‘Made In China’? Unless we’re talking in the distant future or you believe that people in America are so blind as to ignore that everything they use is made in China I just don’t think they would have been able to carry it out.

Everyone knows that China and America are on a collision course and I“m sure there are many plans drawn up for attacking China but simply put none of them could possibly be put into action until the US brings home it’s manufacturing jobs and shuts down places like Wal-Mart. It’s just not realistic otherwise. America would like to stop China now before it’s too late but it’s been too late for quite some time. The amount of American money China holds could crush their economy (and China’s) if they sold it.

Not_Uberche @ 06/01/07 02:19:54

Yeah, guess I was wrong – Rumsfeld actually pushed for all out war with China pre-9/11:

http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002523531.html

“neocons” in the top rungs of the administration quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move toward a declaration of independence from mainland China — an act that the communist regime has repeatedly warned would provoke a military strike.

The top U.S. diplomat in Taiwan at the time, Douglas Paal, backs up Wilkerson’s account
...
With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, some of Taiwan’s most fervent allies were swept back into power in Washington, particularly at the Pentagon, starting with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

bobbyfletcher @ 06/08/07 00:22:01
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