In 2009 in China, hundreds of Uyghur political demonstrations disappeared without a trace. Uyghur women, calling for the return of their son and husbands, is broken up by Chinese armed forces.

China's Secret Organ Transplant Business

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 12, 2014

Veteran China analyst Ethan Gutmann discusses his investigation into China's organ transplant business and its connection with internment camps and dissidents. He discusses what he discovered about China’s program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Gutman’s book The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem is based on interviews with top-ranking police officials and Chinese doctors and reveals a shocking story.

 

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