When the World Isn't Looking

History may be repeating itself in China, and except for a few superficial reports here and there, nobody seems to care. Two 'sources' have now come forward publicly and spoken up about the existence of concentration camps in mainland China where organs are harvested from live prisoners. These concentration camps are reported to be spread all over the country, with one referred to as 672-S possibly detaining more than 120,000 Chinese.

If true, this casts an entirely new light on China's already abysmal human-rights abuses. According to the Epoch Times website,

Annie, whose ex-husband was a cornea specialist at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital, the hospital connected to the Sujiatun camp, gave an interview with The Epoch Times on March 17. She said that her husband had done operations on live Falun Gong practitioners and that the practitioners' bodies were thrown into incinerators after the operations, sometimes while they were still alive.

'Peter' the second of two sources to come forward stated:

In the past three years, I have consumed large amounts of manpower, material supplies, and financial resources, but have finally found this facility in Sujiatun, where many Falun Dafa practitioners were detained, and their cornea, organs, and bone marrow harvested live, and then their bodies cremated. Even their hair is made into wigs, and their skin and body fat is sold. The remainder of their bodies is then cremated to destroy all evidence.

At first glance, this seems implausible. Surely this type of activity went away with the Nazis. That is until you start to consider the following.

On the English version of the website of the China International Transplant Network Assistance Center (CITNAC), it is posted that it only takes one week to one month to find a kidney match. Meanwhile in the United States, the waiting period is two years or longer. We all know that kidneys and other organs are very hard to keep fresh, with a window of only 24-48 hours for a kidney, and even shorter for a heart. It is clearly shown on the Tianjin City Eastern Organ Transplant Center website that transplant procedures have largely increased in frequency since 2001.

Some organ transplant experts have expressed that in order to maintain such a quick process of organ matching between patients and donors, there must be an underground channel of live organs existing in the Shenyang City region. Many doctors and nurses who answered the phones in the hospitals and transplant centers in Beijing and Shenyang Cities, admitted openly that the donors are all alive and very healthy, and they even directly admitted that they are Falun Gong practitioners. When specifically asked more questions, they would not talk on the phone, saying that it is a sensitive topic, and "Let us talk after you arrive here."

If there is even the remote possibility that these reports are accurate, we as a country are in bed with the devil, inextricably intertwined economically and politically. Where is the outrage? Where is the media attention? And why are we apologizing to the leader of this regime for a protocol faux-pas instead of insisting for a full accounting of these charges?

Evidently the Duke Lacrosse team 'scandal' just has bigger societal implications.

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