Journalists investigating the suppression of Falun Gong estimated that approximately 60,000 convicted members were executed and their organs harvested. People are routinely arrested and never heard from again. In some cases families have been told a relative was executed years previously, but often they hear nothing at all.
In 2008 China's own deputy health minister estimated over 60% of transplant organs were sourced from prisoners, but Chinese officials have clamped up about this in recent years. They have occasionally said that this source of organs has been excluded, but there's no way to verify this as rates of donor registration aren't known, rates of executions are a state secret and none of the people or facilities involved are known or open to investigations.
So yes, sure, just like the USA.
> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”
> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
Certainly there's no rule that during war one has to know the name of someone before killing them.
We are entering a new era and no one knows what the rules are.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1018646
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/16/china-cov...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivo...
https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/the-ugly-truth-about-chinas-or...
https://qz.com/1717338/china-accused-of-harvesting-organs-fr...
https://www.chinaorganharvest.org/
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-orga...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-organ-harves...
All I can see are extreme news sources (Breitbart) and NBC reporting on https://chinatribunal.com, and while I know nothing about the chinatribunal, its name somewhat implies a clear stance at the outset.
Particularly in relation to the Uyghur muslims, I can't find any evidence that they're having their organs harvested
I find the fact that the media doesn’t report this, but they do report the re-education camps, suggests the sources aren’t very solid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1018646
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/16/china-cov...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivo...
https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/the-ugly-truth-about-chinas-or...
https://qz.com/1717338/china-accused-of-harvesting-organs-fr...
https://www.chinaorganharvest.org/
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-orga...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-organ-harves...
It's about the Fulan Gong movement, FWIW.
Contrast that situation to China. China has over 1 million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps for non-criminal, political reasons. Most (if not all) of the said Uyghur people imprisoned were given no judicial review, and have no access to legal counsel.
God damn I hate the whataboutism on HN I see with regards to China - it is really rampant. It may shatter some folks' liberal sentiments but the US really is not the worst country on the block (planet), by a long-long margin.