ICYMI: ISIS captives tortured by removing organs and carrying out sick Nazi-style chemical experiments
My legislation, H.R. 2121, seeks to stop organ trafficking. According to Global Financial Integrity data, 10% of transplanted organs worldwide are illegally obtained. These organs are often forcibly harvested from oppressed minorities and prisoners or coerced from vulnerable people. Organ trafficking is an appalling crime that groups such as terrorist organizations have used to promote fear while raising funds for their activities. The United States needs to take action to protect innocent people throughout the world and combat these terrible crimes. The below article highlights the tragic consequences of this brutal practice.
This article was published in The Sun on April 27, 2019 and the full article can be viewed on their website here.
By: Neal Baker
The Sun
TWO British jihadi health workers carried out sickening Nazi-style medical experiments on ISIS prisoners in Syria, witnesses claimed last night.
Former NHS doctor Issam Abuanza, 40, left his wife and two children in Sheffield in 2014 to become Islamic State's "health minister", according to British intelligence.
He appointed Birmingham-born pharmacist Mohammad Anwar Miah, also 40, to help him remove organs from helpless captives, it's claimed.
Witnesses to their alleged brutality told the Daily Mail that these body parts were then transplanted into wounded jihadists - or sold on the black market to fund terror.
Leftover organs harvested from tortured prisoners would also be tossed into the cells of other hostages to torment them, it's alleged.
The ten-man medical team led by Abuanza and Miah have also been accused of performing warped chemical tests on live inmates detained as ISIS rampaged across the region between 2014 and 2017.
NAZI-STYLE TORTURE
The harrowing claims are reminiscent of the inhumane suffering endured by captives held in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.
Syrian activist group Sound And Picture, whose members lived under the jihadis' rule, made the series of staggering accusations - which lay bare ISIS' baseless blood-lust.
Aghiad al-Kheder, the group's co-founder, said: "Islamic State needed to show that it was a government not a radical group and so it appointed a minister for everything.
"Issam was minister for health which meant he was responsible for everything health related."
He added that Abuanza became known for his unflinching cruelty, adding: "Issam first chose Mohammed Anwar – he needed someone to help."
Both Brit medics - who shared the nickname Abu Obayda - allegedly performed their sick procedures in hospitals in the former ISIS strongholds of Mayadin and Deir Ezzor between 2015 and 2017.
Mr Al-Kheder added: "Anwar was involved in the transfer of human organs from the prisoners to members of IS and the human organ trade that was conducted by IS.
"They experimented with torture and with chemical materials but we are not sure for what purposes."
He also claimed the group locked prisoners in rooms with dismembered bodies.
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