TEHRAN (Basirat)- After the liberation of Syria's second-largest city of Aleppo from jihadists, horrific details of their rule continue coming to light: local residents have revealed to Sputnik Arabic the mechanisms of a well-established network of organ traders and their price list.
After the liberation of Syria's second-largest city of Aleppo from jihadists, horrific details of their rule continue coming to light: local residents have revealed to Sputnik Arabic the mechanisms of a well-established network of organ traders and their price list.sputniknews.com reports:
Amid so much western fuss concerning the so-called "Russian
atrocities" during the liberation of Aleppo, local residents of the
liberated city sat down with Sputnik Arabic to reveal for the first time
the horrific details of the jihadists' rule.
They spoke of a massive illegal human organ trade across the border with
Turkey, set up by the militants. Civilians learned to fear the local
emergency vehicles as they sped around the city hunting for potential
donors.
One of the "patients" happened to be 60-year-old Abu Mohammad.
"We were shelled from a grenade launcher and immediately afterwards
rebels came in an emergency vehicle. They ended up stealing one of my
kidneys and part of my spleen," he told Sputnik.
He further described the mechanism of the traders' operations: a
team of rebels wait for an explosion and immediately afterwards pounce
on the wounded and dead. Some of those wounded could have been later
returned home, he said.
Alia has been residing in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo which
was under control of Al-Nusra Front. Once she was offered to undergo
treatment in a Turkish clinic as none of eastern Aleppo's clinics had
enough medication.
There was a huge market on the border with Turkey where virtually
anything was on sale, including women and children. A dead body was
selling for 25,000 Turkish lira (TRL), the equivalent of $50, a body of
an injured person was selling for 150,000 TRL ($290)," she told Sputnik."Every day those wounded at war are sent to hospitals and are regarded as potential donors," she said.
According to statistics, there have been 18,000 documented cases of
illegal removal of human organs in the north of Syria. However the
majority of these secretive crimes will remain that way, as people are
afraid to openly speak about
them.
A group of forensic experts from Aleppo told Sputnik that it was
pretty easy to obtain a human organ in the city. It is located not far
from the Syrian-Turkish border which could be easily crossed from the
districts which were under control of the rebels.
Many foreigners who were allegedly offering humanitarian aid have
flooded the city through that border. In fact, these were predominantly
mafia who, together with foreign medics, were hunting for human organs
and sending them across the border.Doctor Bagjat Akrush told Sputnik that many Syrian medics have been
involved in this criminal industry under the cover of the war. It was
most active in the hot spots in the north and east of Syria and in the
refugee camps.
The governments of many countries have taken part in these crimes either directly or covertly and have done nothing to stop it.
The doctor said that the majority of these crimes have been
committed in the north of the country and children were among those
suffered. Up to 100,000 children in the refugee camps on the Turkish
territory are facing the same very danger, he said.
Up to 80 percent of refugees in these camps are women and children who
have been on sale for almost three years. And it is no secret that the
Turks are also involved in it.
The war in Syria made it possible for criminals to get very cheap
human organs, Akrush went on. They choose a victim through a medical
organization, desirably a healthy one as the organs of a diseased man
are not that in-demand. Then the organs are sent across the border.
Even though Syrian law prohibits the trade in human organs, such crimes
are usually done illegally and covertly, he finally stated.