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How China’s Operating Rooms Became Execution Chambers

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“Living people are killed for their organs,” Dr. Torsten Trey says. “This is arguably the biggest violation of medical ethics in history.”
Sixteen years ago, the first whistleblowers emerged from China with a story that few could believe: The Chinese communist regime was killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. What have we learned about this horrible practice since that time? And is it continuing today?
In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek spoke with Trey about these issues. Trey is co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, which has just released a special report, “Forced Organ Harvesting From Living People in China.”
Jan Jekielek: In 2006, a small nonprofit began called Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, and you were one of the co-founders. Before we go any further, please lay it out for our viewers: What is forced organ harvesting?
Dr. Torsten Trey: Forced organ harvesting is the forceful extraction of organs used for transplantation. This bypasses the typical way of giving consent before you donate an organ. Living people are killed for their organs, and it’s happening on a large scale in China. This is arguably the biggest violation of medical ethics in history.
Mr. Jekielek: Where did the idea to start this nonprofit come from?
Dr. Trey: In 2006, I learned from The Epoch Times that witnesses from China were coming forward. In a hospital in Sujiatun, organs or tissues were being harvested from Falun Gong practitioners.
Two months later, I saw that the vice president of the European Parliament, Edward McMillan-Scott, had followed that case, too. He went to China and met with two Falun Gong practitioners who told him they’d seen a friend who died in detention with holes in his body. That was another piece of evidence.
Then, David Kilgour and David Matas conducted phone interviews with Chinese doctors saying they’d taken organs from Falun Gong practitioners. So in July 2006, I attended the World Transplant Congress in Boston, thinking maybe I’d find some more hints. There, I talked to two doctors from China.
One of them was from the Tianjin hospital. He said in 2005, they’d performed 2,000 liver transplantations, which was an astronomical number. And this was in just one hospital in Tianjin.
Next, I talked to a doctor who was invited to China to open a transplant department. I asked, “Where do all those organs come from?” And he said, “They’re coming from Falun Gong practitioners.”
At that point, I decided there must be more investigation and awareness. That’s how the founding of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting came about.
Mr. Jekielek: Give us a broad picture of the evidence that now exists.
Dr. Trey: There’s evidence related to the transplant numbers, where the organs come from, how they’re donated, and witnesses coming forth.

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