Kilgour-Matas-Gutmann investigation report

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The Kilgour Matas Gutmann Investigation Report is a follow-up to allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents (Tibetans, Uyghurs and domestic Christians) and organ transplants in the People's Republic of China .

On June 22, 2016, the former Canadian State Secretary and Public Prosecutor David Kilgour PC , the Canadian immigration attorney David Matas and the China analyst and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann published the jointly prepared investigation report "Bloody Harvest / The Slaughter - An Update" in the National Press Club in Washington, DC and then submitted it to the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs . On June 29, 2016, they presented the report to the European Parliament in Brussels at a hearing .

The investigation report

The 680-page report is a forensic analysis from over 2,300 sources, consisting of publicly available figures from Chinese hospitals across China, which differ massively from government figures; Interviews with doctors who claim to have performed thousands of transplants; Media reports, public statements, medical journals and publicly available databases.

The report finds that the number of organ transplants in China is far higher than the Chinese government said; the organ sources for this high number of organ transplants come from killed innocent Uyghurs, Tibetans, domestic Christians, and mainly Falun Gong practitioners; and organ harvesting is a crime in China involving the Communist Party, state institutions, the health system, hospitals and transplant doctors.

While the Chinese government claims that only about 10,000 transplants have taken place annually since 2000, the investigation report estimates the actual number to be far higher. According to David Matas, the two or three largest organ transplant hospitals in China already perform over 10,000 transplants annually. For example, the Oriental Organ Transplant Center in Tianjin alone is expected to perform over 6,000 organ transplants annually.

According to the research report, 712 liver and kidney transplant centers across China have performed approximately 1.5 million transplants between 2000 and 2015, meaning that between 60,000 and 100,000 organ transplants are performed in China every year.

Over 300,000 transplants were performed in unregulated hospitals. The investigation report also states that surgeons testified that they simply stopped counting the number of transplants performed each day; some reported 6 liver extractions per day.

According to official information from China, there were 2,766 voluntary organ donations in 2015, from which 7,785 organs were reportedly removed. China analyst Ethan Gutmann commented that it was "difficult but plausible to use 3 organs from one body" and described this organ use as "a new form of genocide using the most respected members of society." David Matas said that aloud their investigations use multiple organs, but in a statistically insignificant way.

In interviews with transplant doctors in China it was stated that they "swim in organs"; some complained about the 24-hour shift work of removing and planting organs; and others assured that they would have replacement organs freshly removed - just in case. Some hospitals can get organs in a matter of hours, while others say they have two, three, or even four replacement organs in case the first organ is rejected.

Xia Qiang, director of Renji Hospital Liver Transplant Center, told the Jiefang Daily in 2005 that he does at least 2–5 liver transplants a week, but cannot say how many he has done in total. All he remembered was that his own record was 6 liver transplants in one day. (78)

Verified transplant centers in China (excerpt)

Huang Jiefu, then deputy health minister, said in 2005 in the prestigious publication Caijing that there was a trend among hospitals for organ transplants to use transplants to make profits. In the same year, Huang made headlines in the Chinese media as China's best-known liver transplant surgeon when he traveled to Xinjiang and performed an autologous liver transplant, in which the patient's liver was removed, cleared of cancerous tissue, and then re-transplanted. As a safeguard for this operation, Huang ordered two additional livers from Chongqing and Guangzhou by phone in advance, which were delivered the evening before the operation. Since a removed liver has to be transplanted within 12 hours and the operation took place later, the investigators assumed that live prisoners were brought in, who were available for organ removal on demand. In 2013, Huang Jiefu, now head of the organ transplant committee, told the Guangzhou Daily, "I performed 500 liver transplants last year."

The People's Liberation Army General Hospital (for senior party officials and military leaders) increased its transplant sales from $ 4.5 million in 2006 to $ 34 million in 2010.

Daping Hospital in Chongqing increased its organ transplant sales from $ 5.4 million in the late 1990s to nearly $ 150 million in 2009.

The Nanjing General Hospital is subordinate to the military in Nanjing . Li Leishi, the founder of the Kidney Research Division, stated in 2008 that he used to do 120 kidney transplants a year, now (at the age of 82) only do 70. Li told of three other chief medical officers who have performed "hundreds of kidney transplants" annually since 2001. With 11 chief physicians and six other surgeons, the hospital will perform over 1,000 transplants per year, according to the report.

Wu Mengchao, director of the Eastern Hepatobiliary Hospital in Shanghai , was still performing an average of 200 organ transplants per year at the age of 89. In total, Wu has performed over 14,000 liver transplants.

In the biography of Dr. Tan Jianming says that in 2014 he conducted 4,200 kidney transplants at Fuzhou General Hospital in Nanjing.

Yu Lixin, director of the transplant department at Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, said that as of 2001, a total of 2,123 kidney transplants had been performed.

Xinqiao Hospital in southwest Chongqing reported that it performed a total of 2,590 kidney transplants in 2002, including 24 in a single day.

Wu Jiaqing, deputy head of Guangdong No.2 Provincial People Hospital, said his department had performed over 10 organ transplants every day until August 3, 2006, and 6 organ transplants on August 4th. This month, patients came from eight to nine countries, including Singapore , Cambodia and France .

Zhu Jiye, director of Peking University Third Hospital, said the hospital performed over 4,000 liver and kidney transplants in 2013.

In June 2004, the Chinese People's Armed Police Medical Journal published that Beijing Friendship Hospital and Guangzhou Nanfang Hospital had each performed over 2,000 kidney transplants by the end of 2000, and many other hospitals had performed over 1,000 transplants.

The First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang , Liaoning Province , performed 2,000 organ transplants in 2005 alone. On the website, the hospital explains: “For being able to perform so many organ transplants each year, we would like to extend special thanks to the government. Especially the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Prosecutor's Office, the State Security and Justice, and the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Citizens' Affairs, who jointly passed laws to obtain government support and protection in organ procurement. "

Renji Hospital in Shanghai performs 1,500 liver transplants and the same number of kidney transplants per year. According to the Good Doctors Online medical directory, which is used intensively by Chinese doctors, there were 400 organ transplants by voluntary organ donors in 2014, so that 1,100 organ sources are missing from the 1,500 organ transplants carried out.

Comment on the investigation report

All of these statements on Chinese hospital websites, medical journals, etc. began in 2000; also the massive expansion of the China-wide infrastructure at hospitals and the training programs for organ transplants, shortly after the persecution of Falun Gong began .

Short waiting times for emergency operations

Emergency liver transplants are performed when patients need an organ transplant within 72 hours. Outside of China, it is almost impossible to find an organ donor for emergency surgery. Not so in China.

China's official liver transplant registry showed in its 2006 annual report a comparison of "individually scheduled" transplants with emergency transplants. This year, 8486 liver transplants were performed, 1150 of them emergency transplants (26.6%).

Changzheng Hospital in Shanghai reported that in April 2006 it performed 120 emergency liver transplants. It published in the Chinese Medical Journal of Clinical Surgery that it performed 16 emergency liver transplants and 15 kidney transplants in nine days in April 2005.

Zhejiang University's First Affiliated Hospital reported that 46 patients had an "emergency liver transplant" performed between January 2000 and December 2004, and all recipients received an organ within 72 hours.

On February 14, 2014, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital performed an emergency liver transplant on a patient who had been transferred from another hospital and who was in hepatic coma. The liver transplant began as soon as the patient arrived, indicating that liver sources were present.

On September 4, 2012, Harbin Medical University's Second Affiliated Hospital had a patient's second heart transplant, a rare operation and the second of its kind in China. The donor heart and all preparations were completed within 4 days.

Hebei Daily reported on April 7, 2011 that a heart transplant was performed on a 13-year-old child at Hebei Medical University Second Hospital. The hospital found a suitable children's heart within a week. No information was given about the child who “donated” the organ.

Comment on the investigation report

After reviewing the research report, Professor Huige Li from Gutenberg University in Mainz explained: “It's a huge system. Every hospital has so many doctors, nurses and surgeons that [emergency transplants] in itself is not a problem. But where do all the organs come from? "

The investigation report describes the realization of all of the organ transplants mentioned as extremely difficult, if not impossible, if there are no captured people “available” to use their organs.

Résumé

Ethan Gutmann explained that China's transplant system is like a giant flywheel that apparently cannot be stopped: “I don't think it's all about profit; I believe that it is about ideology, mass murder and the cover-up of a horrific crime that can only be prevented from being exposed by continuing to kill everyone who knows about it. "

In their report, the investigators conclude that "the Chinese Communist Party has involved the Chinese state in the mass murder of innocent people, mainly followers of the Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa ) spiritual movement , but also Uyghurs , Tibetans and members of the House churches to get organs for the transplant system. "

Statements about the report

United States

Chris Smith , vice chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs said that "China has been illicitly trafficking organs for too long and there is massive evidence that Falun Gong practitioners are being used for organ harvesting." Smith told VOA News that organ trafficking was barbaric, was a reminder of the Nazi atrocities and must be stopped. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , former chairwoman of the committee, said the “gruesome and inhumane practice of depriving individuals of their liberty, throwing them into forced labor camps and prisons, and then executing them for their organs is beyond imagination; we must confront it in general and it must be ended unconditionally ”.

China

The National Commission for Health and Family Planning (formerly the Ministry of Health) did not comment on the investigation report upon request.

One day after publication, when asked, Hua Chunying, spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said: "I want to say that such stories about organ harvesting in China are fabricated and unfounded - they have no factual basis."

Public Statements by China (2001-2016)

In early 2001, surgeon Wang Guogi testified before the US Congress that the Chinese government was using organs from executed inmates without their consent. China denied this allegation.

However, in 2005 it was confirmed by Huang Jiefu, Deputy Minister of Health, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Deputy Director of the secretive party committee that cares for the health of senior cadres, that China was using organs from prisoners.

On March 9th, 2006, a female doctor named Annie made a public statement that there was a large scale organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners going on in China. Three weeks later, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman replied, "It is a lie that organs are removed from executed prisoners without their consent."

In April 2006, the British Transplant Society accused China of using and selling organs from executed inmates without their consent, due to mounting evidence. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Qunan said that China's main source of organs are death-aged citizens who volunteer to donate their organs, and denied the allegation of exploiting death row inmates for their organs. However, Mao Qunan later stated that China was using organs from executed inmates. This was denied again by the Chinese Foreign Minister in the same year.

In 2007, during a meeting of the World Medical Association , China promised that it would no longer use organs from prisoners unless they were relatives.

In 2008, Huang Jiefu published in The Lancet that 90% of organs for organ transplants still come from death row inmates.

In 2010, Huang Jiefu, now director of the Organ Donation Committee, announced that 90% of the organs were still from executed inmates.

In March 2012, the Chinese government announced that it was working to end the use of detainees' organs within the next five years.

In March 2013, China Network published an article reporting that China's Minister of Health announced that China would stop using executed prisoners for organ transplants within 2 years. In November 2013, Huang Jiefu stated that the Hangzhou Resolution would end the use of organs from executed prisoners by June 2014.

In February 2014, the Transplantation Society (TTS) published an open letter to President Xi Jinping , indicating that organs are still being used by prisoners, and judicial and criminal authorities appear to be working with transplant doctors. In December 2014, Huang Jiefu, who now held the post of director of the Organ Donation and Organ Transplantation Committee, announced that China would stop taking organs from executed prisoners and adopt a voluntary organ donation system on January 1, 2015. Death Penalty Worldwide and Amnesty International confirmed that China continued to be the country with the highest execution rate in 2014 and 2015.

In March 2015, Huang Jiefu told a Phoenix Satellite TV reporter in Hong Kong that the issue was too sensitive when asked that the number of executed prisoners was significantly lower than that of organ transplants: "There is no transparency [in China], man cannot know where the organs come from; the number of executions remains a secret ... "

Medical circles

Jeremy Chapman, former president of the Montreal Transplant Society , challenged the report's claims that pharmaceutical companies would not provide drugs for this number of transplants.

However, SWR2 reported in February 2016 that Western clinics and doctors are supporting Chinese transplant centers "without asking too many questions", and that pharmaceutical companies have been supplying the market with drugs against organ rejection and have been doing research at Chinese transplant centers, such as Novartis (Switzerland) since January 2005 and Vital Therapies (San Diego) since 2009.

Medicine Economic News reported in March 2006 that Novartis, Roche and Fujisawa (Japan) dominated 90% of the Chinese immunosuppressant market. The drug Neoral alone brought Novartis 2005 sales of 255 million US dollars.

After the patents for immunosuppressants expired, China began copying these drugs (alongside their own developments), achieving the same level of effectiveness as imported immunosuppressants. According to the Southern Medical Economic Institute, sales of domestic immunosuppressants in 2006 were already $ 1.5 billion. The market grew by an average of 13% per year from 2008 to 2014. Whereas in 2014 only the drug tacrolimus was worth 75.38 million US dollars, sales in the first half of 2015 rose to 406 million (538%). Total sales of all immunosuppressive drugs in 2015 were $ 15 billion.

European Parliament

After presenting the report in Brussels, Tunne Kelam , a member of the European Parliament from Estonia, said that China’s official figures obviously do not match reality and believes that Europe bears some responsibility as Europeans travel to China to find "new" To receive organs, because "without Western patients the Chinese system would not be where it is today." Kelam is calling for a European law that, like in Israel and Taiwan, forbids organ tourism to China.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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