Do You Know Where That Kidney Came From?

This is something that you thought doesn’t really happen, it is only in television shows and movies… but it does happen in real life; forced organ harvesting is happening around the world.

I came across this topic on a social work blog, Social Justice Solutions and it was something that I never really thought happened except on Law & Order or CIS. The SJS blog was about an article in the Huffington Post,

Child Organ Harvesting And Trafficking-Linked Arrest Made In Mexico
AP
By  OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Posted: 03/17/2014

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official said Monday.

Michoacan state Public Safety Secretary Carlos Castellanos Becerra alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of the cartel's organ-trafficking ring. The ring would kidnap children and take them to rented homes with medical equipment where their organs were removed, Castellanos Becerra charged.

"We have several statements in open investigations that point to a network of several suspects who would identify people with certain characteristics, especially children, and kidnap them," he said.

When I read this two thoughts came to mind, where do they sell them, I hope that it is not to hospitals and the other thought was those who are buying them should be locked up for life! So I researched it some more and found that it was not limited to Mexico that the problem is worldwide. On the website CommunityRun they have a petition drive to stop this practice and they says,

There are many countries in which illegal organ harvesting takes place, including India, Mozambique, Philippines, Israel, Pakistan and Egypt, but it is China that has taken this industry to a whole new level.  In China, the government is profiting from the removal of organs from living, unconsenting people; the sale of these organs on the black market and the transplanting of those organs into paying clients.  The transplants are occurring in Chinese military hospitals using organs from Government concentration camps containing individuals who have been imprisoned as a result of real or imagined crimes against the state, including followers of Falun Gong, a peaceful practice that was banned after gaining too large a following. Over 90% of organs harvested are from Falun Gong followers, people who have committed no crime at all.

This is SICK!

Who is profiting from this? CNN back in 2011 covered this topic…

Refugees face organ theft in the Sinai
By Fred Pleitgen and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, CNN
November 3, 2011
Al-Azazy says the organs are taken from refugees while they are still alive. "The organs are not useful if they're dead. They drug them first and remove their organs, then leave them to die and dump them in a deep dry well along with hundreds of bodies."

He says he was once taken to the area where the bodies are dumped after the organ removal process. He says he believes corrupt Egyptian doctors are working with the Bedouins, coming to Sinai with mobile hospital units to perform the operations to remove especially corneas, livers and kidneys.

"Mobile clinics using advanced technology come from a private hospital in Cairo to an area in the deserts of Mid-Sinai and conduct physicals on the Africans before they choose those suitable, then they conduct the operation," Al-Azazy said.
[…]
"The doctors deal directly with the Sawarka family [a Bedouins tribe], and they buy the organs starting from $20,000," the source said in a phone interview.

These people should be locked up and never see the light of day. This is the lowest of the low.

This video is from “Tales from the Organ Trade”


I understand why some people need to sell their organs to survive but the people who buy them are the lowest of lowest.