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On the recordDecember 8, 2011
An article in last Monday's Weekly Standard reveals the systematic execution and harvesting of organs in China's prisons. The article provides firsthand accounts of the targeted elimination of religious prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and political opponents of the regime. Minorities, including Falun Gong, Uyghurs, House Christians, and Tibetans have been executed, followed by organ transplant surgeries--some being performed while the victims are still alive, numbering in the tens of thousands. Furthermore, foreign companies are already making investments to benefit off of the thriving organ transplant market. Pharmaceutical companies like Roche and Isotechnika Pharma have been involved in clinical drug testing of transplant patients. A British firm, TFP Ryder Healthcare, is proposing a medical facility that would include an organ transplant center. Before they follow suit, U.S. companies must understand the unethical climate that exists in China. And our State Department and the U.N. must treat these actions as an abuse of China's international agreements and human rights of their own people. [From WeeklyStandard.com, Dec. 5, 2011] The Xinjiang Procedure (By Ethan Gutmann) To figure out what is taking place today in a closed society such as northwest China, sometimes you have to go back a decade, sometimes more. One clue might be found on a hilltop near southern Guangzhou, on a partly cloudy autumn day in 1991.…
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Dec 8, 2011

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