The Slaughter

Despite the Communist regime’s information blockade, a mainland Chinese petition condemning organ harvesting has gathered over 50,000 signatures.

An activist in China has attempted to sue the former regime leader—and he has not been thrown in jail.

Diplomats, politicians, and business leaders sometimes overlook that China is its peoples, cultures, and history far more than its unelected government. The criticisms many of us at home and abroad make are of the party-state governance, not the long-suffering citizens.

Late on a Friday afternoon the White House responded to a petition submitted to their “We the People” site about 3 years ago on organ harvesting in China.

The extremely short waiting time for organ transplants has made China the most popular country for transplantation tourism, in which patients from other countries travel to China for organ transplant surgeries. The average waiting time for a patient in the United States to receive a matched kidney is four to five years, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in March.

When allegations of forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents in China first emerged in 2006, U.S. author and veteran China analyst Ethan Gutmann was skeptical.

Chinese transplant officials have given a staunch defense of the transplant system not a week after the publication of a book showing evidence of mass slaughter for organs.