[Breitbart] Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) published a study on Tuesday concluding that years of Chinese government data indicate government surgeons have killed prison inmates by tearing out their organs for transplants.The ANU study pored through years of descriptive documents on the executions of death row inmates and found inconsistencies that indicated the inmates were not brain dead when surgeons tore out their vital organs, to be used in transplant surgeries. The researchers concluded that, in many of the cases they identified in Chinese government reports, tearing out organs was the "proximate cause" of death for the inmates.
"Might the transplant surgeon become the de facto executioner? Evidence suggestive of such behavior has emerged over many years from the People’s Republic of China (PRC)," the report stated.
The researchers concluded that China had likely breached a medical ethics standard known as the "dead donor rule," which asserts that doctors should not kill people to transplant their organs into another person. The report follows years of mounting evidence — organized similarly by medical researchers, human rights activists, journalists, and attorneys — suggesting that China has systematically killed political dissidents and members of religious and spiritual communities it disapproves of to sell their organs to wealthy buyers.