China Admits the Painfully Obvious
From ABC’s The Blotter (HT Eye Hacker):
For the first time, the Chinese government has admitted selling the organs of executed prisoners for profit, a gruesome business it had denied for years.
Speaking at a national conference of transplant surgeons in Guangzhou last week, Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu admitted, “Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners,” according to the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper published in Beijing.
Now let’s see them do something to put a stop to it.
And though this admission has received some coverage from the WORMs (Worn-Out Reactionary Media, formerly known as the Mainstream Media), it has been pretty muted, considering the enormity of what the country has just admitted to.
