Read the Beforeitsnews.com story here. Advertise at Before It's News here.
Profile image
By The Sleuth ​Journal
Contributor profile | More stories
Story Views
Now:
Last hour:
Last 24 hours:
Total:

Organ Trafficking: The Other Business Behind the European Migrant Crisis

% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.


(image: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Organ trafficking mafias operate at will taking advantage of the desperation of the most vulnerable.

(The Real Agenda News) Many do not want them within European borders, but they do seem to want their organs.

They are the refugees, thousands and thousands of people, piled up on the borders of Europe, Asia and Turkey, fleeing from war, to whom many believe western society has completely turned its back on in their desperate attempt to get nothing else than a better life.

In this situation of total abandonment in which they are found, there are those who do business with them, organ traffickers, those who seek them on behalf of the wealthy for that kidney and, more and more frequently, livers, which they need  to survive. In exchange for their organs, many refugees are given a ticket to enter Europe.

All efforts being made to control illegal trafficking of organs are unsuccessful. The situation is worse, in the same proportion that Europe keeps refugees in abandonment.

The mafias, not only the one of this type of illegal commerce, but also the one of trafficking of people, operate openly and freely because they feed on the despair of the most vulnerable.

The head of Spain’s National Transplant Organization (ONT), Rafael Matesanz, estimates that between 5% and 10% of the world’s transplants are estimated to be carried out under some form of commercialization or are ethically and legally unacceptable.

The total reaches some 10,000 each year. The European Union calculates that the annual worldwide profit made from organ trafficking is of between 600 million and 1.2 billion dollars.

Organ trafficking and transplant tourism is a global problem, and it takes place on five continents.

The International Transplant Society, through the Custodian Group of the Istanbul Declaration, established in 2010, warns that such crimes are growing in East Africa, especially Sudan, Libya and Egypt, as well as in Turkey, precisely because of the socio-political situation of the regions and the refugee conflict.

Europol also warns of the illegal trade of organs, especially after the disappearance of 10,000 children upon arrival in Europe.

The European Police leaves in the air the fate of these minors – they may have regrouped with a family member, but there is no record of them – but warns that human trafficking has exploded in recent times. And within this kind of traffic there is the illegal trade of organs.

According to Europol, these criminal mafias kidnap the small ones in groups of two or three at the most and they conduct compatibility tests on children in illegal clinics. According to researchers, a kidney can be paid at 230,000 euros, while for a liver the figure would be around 135,000 euros.

That’s the money the mafias get. The donors only get a few hundred euros. The European Police also speak of adults who sell part of their body to pay for the trip that takes them out of their situation of extreme vulnerability.

Cases of organ sales have also been reported in the refugee camps themselves. Specifically, in Turkey, one of the largest refugee settlements in the country. “It’s hard to know what is going on there,” says Matesanz, “but there is evidence that the transplant activity is growing without us knowing where the organs come from.”

In that regard, Egypt is in the spotlight as the country is a transit point for migrants traveling to Europe. According to the NGOs, the traffickers have been acting with total impunity in the Sinai area, on the border separating Egypt from Israel.

Numerous corpses of migrants, mostly from Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, were found in the desert, showing the absence of vital organs and striking scars.

The illegal sale also goes along the Cairo route. Matesanz recalls that one of the hospitals with the most activity of living liver transplants is precisely in Cairo.

According to a report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 20% of refugees crossing Egypt to Israel suffer theft of an organ or are sexually harassed.

In 2011, a senior health official in the African country acknowledged that some 1,500 illegal organ transplants were carried out in the country each year in unlicensed centers.

But he said that 80% of these had been closed since the approval of the human organs law the previous year. However, a few months ago, more than 40 doctors, nurses and professors from renowned Egyptian hospitals and universities, as well as buyers and intermediaries, were detained after it was determined that they belonged to an international organ trafficking network.

According to the Egyptian Administrative Control Authority, “this is the largest international network of human organ trafficking”, involving more than ten hospitals and private clinics.

A reasonable question to ask is, who are receiving these organs? Matesanz, who led the Santiago de Compostela convention against organ trafficking promoted by the Council of Europe, clearly points to the surrounding Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. He also points to Israel, United States and Canada; and of course, EU countries.

“The United Kingdom, for example, has identified citizens who, after traveling abroad, have been discovered to have a new organ.

The European register of transplanted patients, launched by the Council of Europe, helps to identify cases, since that citizen needs post-intervention care,” he says. Patients have also been detected in the Netherlands.

“The statewide network of donations and transplants, public, universal and free, is the best weapon against organ trafficking,” says Matesanz. He insists that the trade is nourished by the abandonment of the most vulnerable people; those who flee their countries due to war, persecution and famine.


The post Organ Trafficking: The Other Business Behind the European Migrant Crisis appeared first on The Sleuth Journal.


Source: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/organ-trafficking-european-migrant-crisis/


Before It’s News® is a community of individuals who report on what’s going on around them, from all around the world.

Anyone can join.
Anyone can contribute.
Anyone can become informed about their world.

"United We Stand" Click Here To Create Your Personal Citizen Journalist Account Today, Be Sure To Invite Your Friends.

Please Help Support BeforeitsNews by trying our Natural Health Products below!


Order by Phone at 888-809-8385 or online at https://mitocopper.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST

Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomic.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST

Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomics.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST


Humic & Fulvic Trace Minerals Complex - Nature's most important supplement! Vivid Dreams again!

HNEX HydroNano EXtracellular Water - Improve immune system health and reduce inflammation.

Ultimate Clinical Potency Curcumin - Natural pain relief, reduce inflammation and so much more.

MitoCopper - Bioavailable Copper destroys pathogens and gives you more energy. (See Blood Video)

Oxy Powder - Natural Colon Cleanser!  Cleans out toxic buildup with oxygen!

Nascent Iodine - Promotes detoxification, mental focus and thyroid health.

Smart Meter Cover -  Reduces Smart Meter radiation by 96%! (See Video).

Report abuse

    Comments

    Your Comments
    Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

    Total 2 comments
    • Debbie

      Money being made off other people’s suffering….gee who could be behind such an evil business…look no further than Zionist Israel and Saudi Arabia….
      Of course, George Webb told the world old crypto Jew Hillary was working with Dyncorp to harvest the organs of Haitians – along with selling the Haitian children into a child sex/sacrifice trafficking ring….funny how the most evil, greedy pigs on the planet are always connected to any heinous big money enterprise…yes, Hillary would steal your liver, kidney or lungs and sell your children to Podesta to butcher later after he has his sick fun…..

      • Debbie

        I just wish this whole sick and twisted mess would end so that normal people can get on with our normal non-greedy lives. Always happy for that small extra, but these people just have to have it all – they put so much money in their banks and off-shore accounts they can never spend it in a lifetime but their focus is ridiculously on making more and more. I am totally sickened by all the accounts that I read of wars, refugees, child-trafficking, drug-trafficking, and everything connected to it.

    MOST RECENT
    Load more ...

    SignUp

    Login

    Newsletter

    Email this story
    Email this story

    If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

    If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.