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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                 212
China has a vast supply of organs because it executes more prisoners each year than the
rest of the world combined. But most experts believe that these known executions represent only
a tiny fraction of the real number. The whole system of sentencing, execution, organ harvesting,
and organ sales operates in a veil of secrecy
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and government officials play a role in each step
of the process. Wu explains:
Government officials play integral roles in every step of the organ
harvesting procedure from the sentencing of prisoners to death to the extraction
and transplantation of their organs. This begins in the courtroom as judges and
other court officials provide for speedy adjudication of cases and rapid turn over
of appeals to the death sentence so as to ensure that a prisoner will be executed at
the optimal time to harvest an organ for the waiting patient. Court officials also
often inform doctors when they pass down death sentences, alerting them to
contact the prison to make a match for transplant patients….
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Wu further contends that these prisoners are sentenced to death to obtain their organs and
not because of the crimes they’ve committed.
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In an article in the New York Times in 2001
about the Chinese sale of organs, Craig Smith wrote, “by some estimates 10,000 people will be
put to death this year” by the Chinese government.
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Dr. Wang Guoqi testified before the committee as a witness and former participant of the
removal of organs from Chinese prisoners soon after death. He said that on some occasions
organs were removed from prisoners while they were still alive and then they were left to die.
Dr. Wang became convicted that what he was participating in was terribly wrong and he refused
to participate any longer and asked for reassignment. He says, “I was forced to submit a pledge
that I would never expose their practices of procuring organs and the process by which the
organs and skin were preserved and sold for huge profits.”
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Dr. Thomas Diflo, a transplant specialist from New York University Medical Center,
testified in regards to his knowledge about Americans traveling to China to receive transplants.
Dr. Diflo testified that he had treated 5 or 6 patients who had received transplants from China.
He further testified, “Virtually everybody in the New York area that I have spoken to has seen at
least one or two of these patients as well.”
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Dr. Diflo said his first exposure to this was when one of his patients who was on a
waiting list for a transplant returned from a trip to China with a new kidney. Subsequently, he
had the opportunity to do follow up medical care with 4 or 5 Chinese Americans who had
recently returned from China with kidney transplants as well. All of these patients gave vague
stories of the origin of their kidneys. But then he had the occasion to treat several patients who
out rightly told him that their kidneys had come from executed prisoners in China.
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Dr. Diflo is not the only physician to report this. The New York Times reported a similar
experience by Dr. Stephen Tomlanovich, a kidney transplant specialist at the University of
California, San Francisco. They reported that Dr. Tomlanovich had “several patients who
traveled to Shanghai or Guangzhou to receive kidneys that he suspects came from executed
prisoners. The patients involved told him that they were not certain of their organs' origins and
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