What happened to the famous moral of Chinese wisdom in the recent decades? Why does the news get filled with increasing number of horror stories coming from China, showing how little they appreciate human lives? Not only do they not care enough about their trade partners worldwide, which we can infer from recent food and medicine poisonings, but their own people have to pay a high price for the economic profits of this Asian tiger.
Although China made selling of organs illegal in 2006, the human organs industry is in full bloom. The high demand for human organs on the national and international side, and an extended usage of death penalty in China create a perfect relation to support this phenomenon.
The “transplant tourists” from Japan, USA, European and other wealthy countries come to China to buy new livers, kidneys, or hearts from hospitals supported by the Chinese government for profit purposes, and go through the operation procedures while still visiting the country. The organs are mostly harvested from executed prisoners and victims of accidents, but the black market does not even mind stealing organs from healthy people while still alive. Many movie directors have been touched by this infamous and persisting issue. As an example, Hong Kong director Chi-Leung shows how the black organ market functions in the movie Koma.
With demands of international organizations for increased protection of human rights, and Olympics 2008 approaching, Chinese government recently banned the sale of human organs. While China has made public efforts to eliminate the organ trade, both rumors of government supported sale and the black market trade still exist.
“Keen demand fuels global trade in body parts.” CNN. 6 Aug. 2007.
<http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/06/organs.transplant.reut/index.html>.
”Organ Procurement And Judicial Execution In China.” Human Rights
Watch. Aug. 1994. <http://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/china1/china_948.htm>.
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