Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany): Organs from executed prisoners are not sufficient for transplants

On April 2nd, Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, the second biggest newspaper in Germany, carried an article reporting how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecutes Falun Gong and murders Falun Gong practitioners by removing their organs for sale.

The article pointed out that in China, “The specific number of executed prisoners in past years is a topic of discussion which has been vexed between the CCP regime and International Organisations of Human Rights.” Although having the highest estimated number of executed prisoners every year in China, the source of many organs for transplant in China cannot be explained:

“A few months ago, the CCP publicly admitted the fact that it has removed organs from executed prisoners. For this, the explanation by the government was that through this method, these executed prisoners could contribute to society. Besides that, before removing their organs, it had got the written consent of those executed prisoners “as far as they possibly could”. But, no matter how people look at such a thing, an executed prisoner only has two kidneys and one liver. However, in the “markets” of China, there is a greater number of organs from live people. Zhang Erping, a former Chinese diplomat who now lives in the USA, said: Few Chinese people are willing to denote their own organs, almost no one. ”

According to the REPORT INTO ALLEGATIONS OF ORGAN HARVESTING OF FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS IN CHINA by David Matas, a lawyer in Canada, and David Kilgour, a former Secretary of State of the Government of Canada for the Asia Pacific region: “Falun Gong practitioners are murdered with malice without going through any legal formalities. The purpose of doing this is to remove their organs for sale. ”

The REPORT revealed that the persecution of Falun Gong reached a climax in 2001. It quoted a Chinese surgeon who confessed to his wife that he had altogether removed corneas from over 2000 detained people. After the operations the victims all lost their lives. Two years later, though the surgeon was rewarded with a large sum of money because of this evil conduct, he did not want to carry on.

The article added: “Kilgour and Matas sent some people, in the capacity of patients, phoned hospitals in China asking about organ transplants. It is said that staff in the hospitals answered these patients: They were guaranteed to supply them with organs they needed. What a patient could do was to come to China. “

While patients in other countries have to wait for up to ten years, the waiting time to obtain an organ in China is unusually short because a large number of human organ banks exist, which makes the supply possible. "[Kilgour and Matas] said: Only those who have a greater and stable source of organ supply without depending on organ donations can do this.”

The article also quoted a piece of evidence newly added by Kilgour: “Kilgour gave an example of a person who specially went to Shanghai for his kidney transplant. In order to find a suitable organ for this patient, the doctor in succession supplied him and transplanted eight kidneys for him until his body accepted an organ.