A new Hollywood sci-fi film Repo Men, starring Jude Law, Academy Award winning actor Forrest Whitaker, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik, is set in the future at a time when artificial organs can be purchased on credit to prolong human life.
A massive corporation known as “The Union” sells these organs to their customers at very expensive rates that is paid in credit over time.
However, these expensive installments must be paid otherwise the organs will be repossessed and not in the most cordial of fashions.
The organs are surgically repossessed on the spot by Repo Men Law and Whitaker, who hold gun and scalpel in hand to retrieve the organs after tracking and catching those who have defaulted on payment.
There is no regard for the health or potential death of the person who is left on the ground in public with a large wound exposed to the air.
Yet things take a turn for Remy (Law) when he experiences a heart attack and is given an artificial heart with expensive payments he can’t fulfill.
What seems barbaric and unimaginable in the film Repo Men is happening today in China, only there isn’t any credit involved, and the only way to make due is to give your life.
In China, “The Union” is the Chinese Communist Party, the Repo Men are Chinese military surgeons, and the customers are the millions-strong population of captives incarcerated in the massive Chinese prison and labor camp system.
In the new book, Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs, human rights attorney David Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour present a body of startling evidence. The book documents their investigation into forced organ harvesting from innocents in China, who they postulate are largely practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. They implicate the Chinese State as the culprit.
Much as is the situation with organ repossession in Repo Men, organs are seized from Falun Gong against their will and with impunity, something the book authors describe as “a disgusting form of evil which, despite all the depravities humanity has seen, [is] new to this planet.”
Kilgour and Matas have earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for their work. They estimate that over 40,000 organs were forcibly seized from Falun Gong practitioners since 2001, when they believe the State organ seizure moved from death-row prisoners to the much larger prison population of Falun Gong practitioners.
In the mid-to-late 2000’s, a number of Chinese hospital websites proudly announced to prospective transplant tourists that they could furnish patients with new organs in time periods as short as 2-3 weeks. With no organ donation system in China, and a Chinese societal aversion to donating organs, all death-row prisoners being used for organs could not account for even a fraction of the organs that were transplanted in China yearly.
Earlier this week, a U.S. House Resolution condemning the torture and persecution of Falun Gong was passed in a landslide vote, 412 to 1 in favor. The Resolution references organ harvesting.
Begun by then-Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin in 1999, the Chinese State’s assault on Falun Gong targeted an estimated 70 million people across all social classes and walks of life in China, including among communist party cadres.
The torture, incarceration, killing and later organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents resulted. It has been documented by human rights organizations and government bodies for the last 11 years, with Amnesty International and other human rights groups pleading for the Chinese Regime to stop.
Forced organ harvesting by the State in China was first exposed in 2006 by a woman named Annie, who revealed that her husband had been involved in the harvesting of over 2000 corneas from patients. Shortly thereafter, Kilgour and Matas were invited by a Human Rights group focused on Falun Gong to research the allegations.
Falun Gong, known as a high level Qi-Gong practice, grew dramatically during the 90’s amidst the nation’s turn towards traditional Chinese Medicine and health.
Initially, Chinese State media promoted the practice as the new wave in Chinese medicine, touting studies showing over 20% drops in state health medical fees.
A massive corporation known as “The Union” sells these organs to their customers at very expensive rates that is paid in credit over time.
However, these expensive installments must be paid otherwise the organs will be repossessed and not in the most cordial of fashions.
The organs are surgically repossessed on the spot by Repo Men Law and Whitaker, who hold gun and scalpel in hand to retrieve the organs after tracking and catching those who have defaulted on payment.
There is no regard for the health or potential death of the person who is left on the ground in public with a large wound exposed to the air.
Yet things take a turn for Remy (Law) when he experiences a heart attack and is given an artificial heart with expensive payments he can’t fulfill.
What seems barbaric and unimaginable in the film Repo Men is happening today in China, only there isn’t any credit involved, and the only way to make due is to give your life.
In China, “The Union” is the Chinese Communist Party, the Repo Men are Chinese military surgeons, and the customers are the millions-strong population of captives incarcerated in the massive Chinese prison and labor camp system.
In the new book, Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs, human rights attorney David Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour present a body of startling evidence. The book documents their investigation into forced organ harvesting from innocents in China, who they postulate are largely practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. They implicate the Chinese State as the culprit.
Much as is the situation with organ repossession in Repo Men, organs are seized from Falun Gong against their will and with impunity, something the book authors describe as “a disgusting form of evil which, despite all the depravities humanity has seen, [is] new to this planet.”
Kilgour and Matas have earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for their work. They estimate that over 40,000 organs were forcibly seized from Falun Gong practitioners since 2001, when they believe the State organ seizure moved from death-row prisoners to the much larger prison population of Falun Gong practitioners.
In the mid-to-late 2000’s, a number of Chinese hospital websites proudly announced to prospective transplant tourists that they could furnish patients with new organs in time periods as short as 2-3 weeks. With no organ donation system in China, and a Chinese societal aversion to donating organs, all death-row prisoners being used for organs could not account for even a fraction of the organs that were transplanted in China yearly.
Earlier this week, a U.S. House Resolution condemning the torture and persecution of Falun Gong was passed in a landslide vote, 412 to 1 in favor. The Resolution references organ harvesting.
Begun by then-Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin in 1999, the Chinese State’s assault on Falun Gong targeted an estimated 70 million people across all social classes and walks of life in China, including among communist party cadres.
The torture, incarceration, killing and later organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents resulted. It has been documented by human rights organizations and government bodies for the last 11 years, with Amnesty International and other human rights groups pleading for the Chinese Regime to stop.
Forced organ harvesting by the State in China was first exposed in 2006 by a woman named Annie, who revealed that her husband had been involved in the harvesting of over 2000 corneas from patients. Shortly thereafter, Kilgour and Matas were invited by a Human Rights group focused on Falun Gong to research the allegations.
Falun Gong, known as a high level Qi-Gong practice, grew dramatically during the 90’s amidst the nation’s turn towards traditional Chinese Medicine and health.
Initially, Chinese State media promoted the practice as the new wave in Chinese medicine, touting studies showing over 20% drops in state health medical fees.
