Monday, October 10, 2016

Organ Trafficking in China


  • Organ Trade has become more popular, despite the laws against it, being legalized in Australia and Iran.
  • Organ Trade is most common in Europe and lower Asia. In China, the Organ Trade has become so popular that it nets 1 billion U.S dollars annually.
  • The practice murders innocent people, with the goal of harvesting organs. tens of thousands of people die every year.
  • an estimated 90,000 people were on an organ waiting list as of 2011, with the numbers growing.
  • 10,000 organs are transplanted in China every year.
  • The large group in china, that is believed to be the ones being killed for organs is the people of the Falun Gong- a religious group banned by Chinese Gov.
  • Attorney David Matas and David Kilgoure, a member of Canadian parliment, set out to research the sudden deaths of these people and they found hard evidence.
  • The people harvesting the organs on the other hand, were hard to find and stop, so this is an ongoing fight today



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