The World Demands That China Stop Organ Harvesting

People and countries all over the world are signing petitions, passing resolutions, and making new laws to call on China to end its practice of forced organ harvesting at once.

Since about the year 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using Falun Gong practitioners and other religious or ethnic minorities it disapproves of as a living organ bank.  They arrest these people illegally and detain them in camps, where they are killed on demand so their organs can be used for transplants.

The CCP kept this secret from the outside world for years while they killed tens of thousands of people.  Eventually the story leaked out with the help of investigators such as the international human rights lawyer David Matas and eyewitness accounts from those who escaped the camps.

“The story of organ transplant abuse in China has, over the years, spread wider, higher, and deeper,” Matas wrote in an email according to the Epoch Times.

“There is a gathering global momentum finally to set in place the mechanisms to prevent the transplant abuse we have seen and continue to see in China,” Matas added.

For example, nearly 1.5 million people from 53 countries signed a petition to the United Nations, asking the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate organ harvesting and call for China to end the cruel practice.  This petition was delivered to the U.N. on Dec. 9., the Epoch Times reported.

The European Parliament, meanwhile, passed a resolution on Dec. 12 saying that China should “immediately end the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience,” release all prisoners of conscience, tell the U.N. where they are getting organs for transplants, and allow an investigation into the subject, according to the Epoch Times.

The resolution also encourages all EU countries to condemn organ harvesting.  Many countries around the world are doing just that, the Epoch Times reported.

Canada, Australia, France, and Sweden are all considering legislation that would condemn organ harvesting or prevent their citizens from obtaining organs from unwilling donors.  Other countries such as Spain have already passed such laws, and the United States is considering a resolution condemning organ harvesting.

“Out of the Chinese Communist Party’s killing of Falun Gong for their organs will arise a global legacy, an ethical global organ transplantation system,” Matas wrote according to the Epoch Times.

“That legacy will survive long after the Communist Party of China is a bitter, distant memory.”

Sources: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/395704-european-parliament-passes-resolution-opposing-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china/

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