Bunuh Muslim Uighur untuk dapat Organ
China is harvesting thousands of human organs from its Uighur Muslim minority, UN human-rights body hears
- The UN Human Rights Council heard on Tuesday that China is engaged in widespread harvesting of human organs from persecuted religious and ethnic minorities.
- The China Tribunal made the accusation at the council’s meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It said Uighur Muslims and the Falun Gong religious group were affected.
- The China Tribunal is a group backed by an Australian human rights charity that’s investigating the issue.
- A lawyer for the group said China was “cutting out the hearts and other organs from living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people,” describing the situation as an atrocity.
- China has denied large-scale harvesting of organs. It has acknowledged using executed prisoners’ organs in the past but says it stopped in 2015, according to Reuters.
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China
was accused on Tuesday of harvesting human organs from persecuted groups in the
country.
The
China Tribunal, a group that’s investigating the organ harvesting, said at a
tense meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council that the Chinese
government was taking hearts, kidneys, lungs, and skin from groups including
Uighur Muslims and members of the Falun Gong religious group.
The
China Tribunal
describes itself as an “independent, international people’s tribunal, and was
backed by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, an
Australian human rights charity made up of lawyers, academics, and medical
professionals.
China
has denied carrying out mass harvesting of organs in any circumstance.
Addressing UN representatives, a lawyer for the China
Tribunal, Hamid Sabi, said the group had proof of the organ harvesting.
Sabi
said the group had found that China was committing “crimes against humanity” by
harvesting organs from religious minorities like the Uighurs and members of
Falun Gong, which has been banned and widely persecuted by the Chinese
government.
“Forced
organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including the religious
minorities of Falun Gong and Uighurs, has been committed for years throughout
China on a significant scale,” Sabi said in a video published on the China
Tribunal website.
Sabi
was presenting evidence from the tribunal’s final report, published in June, which found that a “very substantial number” of prisoners
were “killed to order” by the Chinese government.
They
were “cut open while still alive for their kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs,
cornea and skin to be removed and turned into commodities for sale,” the report
said.
The
body parts were then used for medical purposes, it said, citing extremely short
wait times for organ transplants in Chinese hospitals as evidence of the
practice.
The
report was led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, a British lawyer who was the lead
prosecutor in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavian
president.
Sabi
told the UN council on Tuesday that China’s efforts involved “hundreds of
thousands of victims,” describing it as “one of the worst mass atrocities of
this century.”
He
did not specify how many organs the China Tribunal believes had been harvested,
or the number taken from Uighurs and from Falun Gong members.
“Victim
for victim and death for death, cutting out the hearts and other organs from
living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people constitutes one of the worst mass
atrocities of this century,” he said.
“Organ
transplantation to save life is a scientific and social triumph, but killing
the donor is criminal.”
Reuters said China has insisted that it “stopped using
organs from executed prisoners in 2015.”
The
Chinese government did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request
for comment on Sabi’s testimony.
Sabi
concluded by saying that it is the duty of international bodies like the UN to
investigate the tribunal’s findings “not only in regard to the possible charge
of genocide, but also in regard to crimes against humanity.”
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