| Memo to Hu Jintao: Donate Your Organs |
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| Thursday, 19 May 2011 08:17 | ||||
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- By David Matas, International Human Rights Lawyer, Canada China woefully needs organ donations. The country set up an organ donation system in March 2010 as a pilot project in 11 cities. On March 18, 2011, Beijing Today reported, after an intensive one-year effort, the grand total of donations in all cities combined was 37. Though the Chinese Red Cross, in Nanjing had 12 people working full time during the year encouraging donations, not one person elected to be a donor. There are an estimated 1.5 million people in China who are in dire need for organ transplants. Second to the US, China is the world’s leading source of organ transplants, with a rate of 10,000transplants a year. Worldwide it is customary for a patient to wait months and years for organs. However, China is unique; patients wait days and at most In addition to the analysis of the evidence, the Chinese communist regime admits that it is so. In July of 2005 Huang Jiefu, Chinese Deputy Minister of Health, indicated 95 percent of organs are derived from prisoners. Speaking at a conference of surgeons in November 2006, he reported that apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs come from cadavers of prisoners. Again in October 2008, he reported that more than 90 percent of transplanted organs are obtained from prisoners. In March 2010, he stated that over 90 percent of grafts are from deceased prisoners. The Chinese Communist Party claims that the prisoners/donors are sentenced to death and then executed. David Kilgour and I have come to the conclusion, through reports released in July 2006 and January 2007, and a book released in November 2009, titled Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong. The bulk of the prisoners killed for their organs are practitioners of Falun Gong. Banned in China, the teachings are based upon; Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Falun Gong practitioners are thrown into detention because of their beliefs, but do not receive court ordered death sentences. There is a host of reasons, which rebuke the CCP’s claim that organs come from death penalty prisoners alone. One is simply the numbers. Transplants require blood type compatibility. China does not have a national organ distribution system. There is no system for patients receiving organs from a compatible source. The death penalty law requires execution within seven days of sentence. Put this all together, China would need over 30,000 executions a year to sustain 10,000 transplants sourced solely from prisoners sentenced to death. Yet, the highest estimate of executions of prisoners sentenced to death (from the Italian based NGO Hands Off Cain) is 5,000 a year. In any case, sourcing of organs even from prisoners sentenced to death is wrong. The Chinese regime itself acknowledges this. Deputy Health Minister Huang in August 2009 stated that executed prisoners, “are definitely not a proper source for organ transplants.” Acquiring willing donors requires overcoming the Chinese cultural aversion to donation. That effort has to come from the top. Falun Gong is a blending, of ancient Chinese exercise and spiritual traditions. That explains its popularity with China’s people and the CCP’s aversion. In a memorandum from, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin to the Central Committee of the Communist Party advocating the banning of Falun Gong, he wrote: “Can’t the Marxism our communists have, the materialism, the atheism we believe in, really win over that suit of stuff aired by Falun Gong? If that were not the case, would not it be a thumping joke?” The Chinese Communist Party should adopt the modernism it professes. Every Communist Party membership card should contain a form for organ donation and every member of the Central Committee should commit to donating their organs. It should begin at the top with a public announcement from Chinese President Hu Jintao that he personally will donate his organs. David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This opinion piece is a shortened version of a talk he gave at San Diego University on May 11. (Source: The Epochtimes)
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