Some so-called medical tourists are willing to pay a premium for the organs of victims who have abstained from pork and alcohol. They are receptive to China’s marketing of “halal” organs, organs supposedly untainted by non-halal-ish ingestion.
“Halal” means “sanctioned by Islamic law; especially: ritually fit for use” (Merriam-Webster). A halal diet is the Muslim version of the Jewish kosher diet.
Sakina Fatima reports “serious allegations that the Chinese government is involved in the forced harvesting of organs from patients who were not yet brain dead, presumably prisoners, and sold in the black market” (“China faces allegations of trading ‘halal organs’ forcibly harvested from Uyghurs,” The Siasat Daily, July 7, 2024).
These allegations have been confirmed by the testimony of victims not immediately killed by the operations as well as by Chinese who have witnessed the operations or who have themselves murdered people on the operating table. (The Chinese government’s rote denials of wrongdoing in this and many other well-attested matters cannot be taken seriously.)
The Uyghurs of Xinjiang have not been the only victims. But:
The organs of the Uyghurs are the most expensive, and are marketed under the name “halal organs” to Muslim medical tourists from Gulf countries, experts told a US congressional committee hearing in March 2024, the Turkistan Press reported.
Medical tourists are willing to pay premiums for organs from Uyghur “donors” who abstain from pork and alcohol.
Ethan Gutmann, a research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, claims Uyghurs aged 20-30 are being taken from mass internment camps and killed for their organs.
China’s organ harvesting industry began using Falun Gong followers a decade ago, shifting to Uyghurs and Muslims interned in East Turkistan in 2017 for Middle Eastern medical tourists, he said.
“On the assumption that Gulf state organ tourists prefer Muslim donors who do not eat pork, [China] has attempted to capitalise on the switch from Falun Gong to Uyghur sources,” Gutmann added, noting that “transplant hospitals” marketed Muslim prayer rooms and halal restaurants.
Fatima cites a March report in East Turkistan News about the congressional testimony. ETN noted that “Chinese authorities are collecting genetic data from the country’s Muslim Uyghur minority” in order to match murder victim to organ recipient.
Maya Mitalipova, the director of the Human Stem Cell Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, testified that China’s DNA database was “the world’s largest” and had cost “billions of dollars” to build.
She said she believed there was a clear reason for investing so much money: The country’s organ-transplant industry carries out at least 60,000 operations a year, with the “least expensive” kidneys costing about $70,000, and other organs fetching up to $500,000.
Thus, the medical tourists, who either know or don’t want to know what is going on, are both subsidizers of the Chinese totalitarian state and accessories to murder.
Also see:
Congressional-Executive Commission on China: Video: “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?”
Ethan Gutman: “The second group [of people who leave detention camps early] is aged between 25 to 35. The average is usually 28. This was very explicit from witness to witness. The age that the Chinese medical establishment prefers for organ sourcing. They are removed in the middle of the night…. They are not to be mentioned again…. 2.5% to 5% of the camp go missing exactly like this.” (28:24-28:50)
Amazon.com: The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem (2014) by Ethan Gutmann
ChinaTribunal.com: “The Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China” (2020)
