‘An Unprecedented Evil Persecution’—Chapter Thirteen: China’s Execution-Transplantation System and International Institutions: A Too-Sticky Wicket?

‘An Unprecedented Evil Persecution’—Chapter Thirteen: China’s Execution-Transplantation System and International Institutions: A Too-Sticky Wicket?
Cover of the book "An Unprecedented Evil Persecution"
Kirk C. Allison
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The Epoch Times is proud to republish “An Unprecedented Evil Persecution: a Genocide Against Goodness in Humankind” (eds. Dr. Torsten Trey and Theresa Chu. 2016. Clear Insight Publishing). The book helps with the understanding of forced organ harvesting in China by explaining the root cause behind this atrocity: the genocide committed by the Chinese regime against Falun Gong practitioners.

Introduction

The nexus of transplantation and execution in China and professional association responses highlight tensions between disciplinary standards and self-regulation. While not wholly autonomous, characteristics justifying professions’ unique legal standing include specialized expertise, self-regulation (practice standards and discipline), and serving the public interest including protecting “against bungling and extortion.”(1) Thus, “it alone must exercise discipline over its members, and with due regard to basic human rights, remove delinquents from its lists.”(2) What response should follow when an entire context of professional practice shows no regard to basic human rights, even relying on execution for its materials?

The Case

After years of denial, in 2005, Vice Minister of Health and liver transplant surgeon Huang Jiefu admitted executees were China’s primary organ source.(3) The confluence of Falun Gong persecution, launched in 1999, and an exponential increase in organs with a peak in 2004 (see Fig. 1)(4) has had little acknowledgment in professional society discourse, despite increasing recognition among medical professionals and ethicists.(5) (6)
Kidney and Liver Transplant in China from 1997 to 2007 (Fig. 1)
Kidney and Liver Transplant in China from 1997 to 2007 Fig. 1
Kirk C. Allison
Kirk C. Allison
Public Health Director and Human Right Activist
Kirk C. Allison, Ph.D., director of the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Dr. Allison has provided testimony to the Congressional House Committee on Foreign Relations concerning organ harvesting in China.
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