CCP’s Latest “Promise” Has a Gaping Hole

When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) broke the promise it made in 2012 to stop using organs from executed prisoners for transplants, it’s doubtful anyone was very surprised.

If the CCP also goes back on its most recent announcement, which is that it will stop using prisoners’ organs starting on Jan. 1, 2015, it will be equally unsurprising. As the Epoch Times pointed out, this latest promise came from a questionable source, and it specifies in the fine print that organs will still be taken from prisoners, but now with consent.

However, even if the promise were kept fully, it would still leave a gaping hole.

The announcements only referred to death-row criminals. They failed to mention anything about organ harvesting from non-criminal prisoners of conscience—mainly practitioners of the Falun Gong meditation practice, and also house Christians, political dissidents, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

Evidence has shown that the majority of China’s organ transplants come from these groups, not from executed criminals. Prisoners of conscience are kept on hand until someone needs an organ, and then a matching donor is found and the organ taken, killing the prisoner in the process.

When this practice was discovered and publicized, the international community demanded that the CCP end it immediately. Perhaps CCP officials hope their new announcement will fool other nations into thinking organ harvesting will end soon.

However, the CCP has never admitted to the true crime—taking organs from prisoners of conscience—let alone made efforts to address it.

Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1123768-is-china-really-going-to-stop-using-organs-from-executed-prisoners/