Hal Shurtleff interviews Mitchell Gerber on the subject of Communist China's practice of harvesting human organs for sale both nationally and internationally. This show originates on WBCQ The Planet (Show 234)

From www.stoporganharvesting.org

Organ Harvest Investigation

Shocked by these reports, two prominent Canadian human rights lawyers launched their own independent investigation.

They were former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour and renowned Canadian human rights attorney David Matas. In July 2006, they published their 140-page report. It drew, "the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true."

This investigation uncovers the on-demand nature of organ transplants in China, abundance of organs despite the lack of a functional donation system.

On June 22, 2016, they published an update to their report. It shows continued expansion of transplantation capacity after organ harvesting first came to light in 2006, driving factors behind the industry's growth, and the role of Party and government agencies and individual officials in implementing and perpetuating the systematic killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs.

While Chinese officials typically say that China transplants about 10,000 organs a year, this Update shows that this annual figure is surpassed by just a few hospitals. Based on government-imposed minimum capacity requirements for transplant centers, the total system-wide capacity since 2000 would have easily reached over one million transplants. Given that the vast majority of these hospitals well exceed the minimum requirements, the number of transplants performed in China is staggering.