![]() ![]() ![]() Scheper-Hughes said fresh kidneys from “the brain dead or from those executed with the assistance of trained organ harvesters are the blood diamonds of illicit and criminal trafficking.” “The demand for fresh organs and tissues … is insatiable.” “Dead bodies, once they are disarticulated, pulverized, processed, freeze-dried, etc., are so far removed from the ‘human’ person that they are simply commodities,” Scheper-Hughes said. Last month, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency and other outlets reported that ISIS had announced the opening of a medical school in its main stronghold in northern Syria. “They have committed the most heinous criminal terrorist acts against the Iraqi people – whether Shia, Sunni, Christian, Turkmen.” “These terrorist groups have desecrated all human values,” he said. Speaking to the Security Council at a regular meeting on Iraq on Tuesday, Alhakim cited what he said were crimes of genocide by ISIS – “without even mentioning the traffic of human organs and the theft and trafficking of archaeological items and oil.” The mutilated bodies have been found in shallow graves over the last several weeks, he said. The terror group has taken over airports where the body parts could be flown out in deals arranged between middlemen and buyers, he said. “We also have no reason to doubt them given other similar atrocities that have been documented and other heinous crimes for which ISIL has proudly taken credit,” the State Department said, using another acronym for the militant group.Īlhakim said there is a market in Europe for the stolen organs. State Department said it was aware of the “deeply disturbing comments” about the alleged organ trafficking but wasn’t able to confirm them. “I cannot speak to the extent of that issue until we finalize our analysis of the problem but if one looks at the broader picture, it is very clear that the brutality and the tactics that (ISIS) is using expand by the day.” ![]() Mladenov said reports that the group “is using a human trafficking as part of its sources of income” have circulated for months. “However, I do not want to hasten to confirm anything before we study them in greater detail.” “We have seen these reports as well,” he said. special envoy handling Iraq, said the organ theft claim would be investigated. “At this point we’re not in a position to corroborate what he says, but obviously any source of illegal financing of groups such as ISIS or other extremist groups is extremely worrisome,” U.N. The U.N.’s Iraqi mission on Wednesday said Alhakim was not granting interviews. “Organ theft during wars, civil wars, dirty wars, wars involving undisciplined armies is not uncommon,” Scheper-Hughes, chair of Berkeley’s doctoral program in medical anthropology, said in an email. The plunder of bodies for usable organs and tissues is widespread, according to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, director of Organs Watch, a University of California, Berkeley-based documentation and research project. “This is clearly something bigger than we think,” Alhakim said. “Some of the bodies we found are mutilated … that means some parts are missing,” he told reporters, adding that there were openings in the back of the bodies where the kidneys would be located. He said they were killed after refusing to remove organs from bodies. The Iraqi ambassador, Mohamed Alhakim, on Tuesday urged the Security Council to investigate the deaths of 12 doctors in Mosul, Iraq. Grant said there was no proof or evidence of the claim made by Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations. The United Nations is looking into claims that ISIS – already considered the wealthiest terrorist group on record – may be harvesting organs from slain civilians and gaining financial benefits by trafficking the body parts, officials said Wednesday.īut Britain’s ambassador to the U.N., Mark Lyall Grant, said the issue has not been officially discussed.
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