China harvesting Uyghur Muslim organs in concentration camps,

  'When someone needs an organ, on that day, somebody will die.' 

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China harvesting Uyghur Muslim organs in concentration camps, surgeon claims

According to witness, live organs are harvested from detained Uyghur Muslims and sold for over $160,000

An interview conducted by the independent journalist CJ Werlemen with a Uyghur Muslim surgeon has alleged that China has been harvesting live organs from executed Uyghur prisoners being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang province.

According to Enver Tohti, a surgeon who once unwittingly took part in one of these gruesome operations and is now living in exile, organ harvesting in China has been an ongoing practice for over 20 years and is widespread and systematic in the Muslim majority province of Xinjiang, also called Occupied East Turkestan.

“I was called by my chief surgeon to go to a room near the Urumqi execution grounds to remove the liver and two kidneys from an executed prisoner”

 Enver said, recalling the event.[1] “It turned out he wasn’t fully dead because they [Chinese execution squad] shot him through the right chest [intentionally] to knock him out [without killing him], so I would have time to remove his organs” he added.

According to Tohti, the detainees who have their organs removed are not killed immediately, they are kept alive during the procedure so the organs being harvested are taken out live. Furthermore, Tohti said he was ordered by his superior to not administer anaesthesia on the detainee when he performed the procedure.

“I told my chief surgeon he wasn’t dead but he ordered me to remove the man’s liver and kidneys there and then – and to be quick about it.
I was ordered not to give the man any anaesthetic,” the exiled Uyghur surgeon said in an interview with the UK Daily Record in 2013. [2]

Last month Tohti told Radio Free Asia,[3] that he believes the main customers of China’s grotesque organ harvesting business are from Saudi Arabia, whose recipients are in need of organs, and that authorities market and advertise the harvested organs as ‘halal’ even though the illegal practice is completely forbidden in Islam.

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