China’s Gruesome Organ Harvest – The whole world isn’t watching – by Ethan Gutmann
NOV 24, 2008, VOL. 14, NO. 10 • BY ETHAN GUTMANN
Bangkok
The jeepney driver sizes us up the minute we climb in. My research assistant is a healthy, young Israeli dude, so I must be the one with the money. He addresses his broken English to me: “Girl?”
No. No girls. Take us to the …
“Ladyboy? Kickboxer?”
No. No ladyboy, no kickboxer, thanks. I may be a paunchy, sweaty, middle-aged white guy, but I’m here to–well, actually, I am on my way to meet a Chinese woman in a back alley. She is going to tell me intimate stories of humiliation, torture, and abuse. And the truly shameful part is that after 50 or so interviews with refugees from Chinese labor camps, I won’t even be listening that closely.