KUALA LUMPUR: Not only the ransom money is exacted from the trafficked people, their organs are also being traded. The blood of the trafficked people is tested first then the matched people are separated from others whose blood does not match as per demand. As per demand, kidneys, livers, eyes and other transplantable organs of the trafficked human beings are sold.

Recently these were proved after autopsy of the unearthed bodies from the mass graves in Songkhla province of Kuala Lumpur.

An eye witness account by trafficked one Sohel told Banglanews that after reaching Thailand, blood sample of the trafficked people are tested. Then the demanded people are separated according to the condition of their kidney and eyes. 

Senior voluntary program officer Ashikur Rahman deals the expatriate workers told Banglanews that the traffickers one profitable matter is to sale the human organ. On many occasions the captured people are not released because their blood, kidneys and eyes have demand as per matching.

He informed that in 2010 they got three cases of kidney sale. But after that they could not be identified probably they died. 

It is learnt that kidneys and other human organs collected here are sent to the hospitals in South-East Asia and even in Europe for transplantation. The sale of human organs has been given legality only in Iran. So, the healthy organs are sent to Iran. Besides, healthy human organs are sold in Japan, Italy, Israel, Canada, Tawian, America and Saudi Arabia.

According to a statistics of Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation of 2012, kidney is the most used organ for transplantation which is 67.85 percent of the total organs. Next liver which is 20.91 percent, lung 3.80 percent pancreas 2.11 percent and small intestine 15 percent.

The trafficked people told that the traffickers’ team also included few doctors. Those physicians are used to carry on blood test of the trafficked people and the transplantation is done in their labs. The physicians are mostly from China and Taiwan.

According to the latest data of WHO about 10,000 human organs are smuggled every year across the world which is about 10 percent of the total transplanted organs.

According to the data of Red Cross Organ Donation Center there were 4,321 patients were waiting for organ transplantation in Thailand only. Of the total patients, 581 were for kidney transplantation.

This is why though there is no or little chance of getting ransom, the hopeless and unfortunate Rohingyas are the first choice for boating to Thailand or Malaysia because of their organs particularly kidney. Their healthy kidneys are taken to the country where the transplantation is done in exchange of money which is larger in some cases in comparison to ransom.

Ashik told that they were 10 complaints during last two years about human organ selling as narrated by the eye witnesses as the people whose kidneys are taken off mostly die without care or medical follow up.

BDST: 2130 HRS, JUN 22, 2015
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