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    "Black Trade"... Human Organs Are a Growing Market in Iraq and Testimonies of "Dangerous Collusion"

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    Post by Rocky Tue 23 Jul 2024, 4:41 am

    "Black Trade"... Human Organs Are a Growing Market in Iraq and Testimonies of "Dangerous Collusion"

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    Baghdad Today - Follow-up
    There are stories that you might think only exist in movies because of the extent of the crime in them, but the shock comes when you discover that this actually happens in reality.
    “Raya and Sakina” is a famous story that was quickly brought to mind by the Iraqi street when two women were recently arrested for luring girls to kill them and extract their organs, with the help of a man specializing in medical surgery. 
    Human trafficking.. a profitable organ market
    Organ trafficking is widespread in Iraq, where brokers take advantage of the poor living conditions of many people... and here they present the tempting offer: buy your organs for a few thousand dollars.
    A report by the Arabic website "Erem News" reveals the secrets of the black trade, and traces its threads and explores its depths. The beginning was with one of the brokers we reached through the social networking site Facebook, whose pages are full of promotional campaigns for buying and selling organs.
    The broker asks for the details of the file of the potential “kidney seller,” and that is what happened in the conversation that took place with him over the phone.
    Mediator: Where are you from? 
    Seller: From Al Kut 
    Mediator: What is your blood type? 
    Seller: O+
    Mediator: What births? 
    Seller: Born in 1997
    Mediator: What is your weight and height? 
    Seller: My weight is 75 and my height is approximately 173 
    Broker: The operation takes place in the Sulaymaniyah area. We pay all your travel and expenses, and you receive your account one hour before the operation. What is the amount you are requesting?
    Seller: How much do you give? 
    Broker: We give you 27 million dinars. When you come to Baghdad, I will send you a driver to take you to the Sulaymaniyah area. 
    Seller: Shall we schedule an appointment for the tests today or what?
    Mediator: When you come, we do the tests, and you go directly to a committee, and then you are referred to the surgeon.
    Hossam sold his kidney to escape financial hardship. 
    This is where the story begins. On these platforms, the person - the victim - may find an easy way to get rid of his many financial burdens, but when he decides to give up one of his organs, he does not think about the consequences of his decision, which may lead him to death for many reasons.
    Hussam is an Iraqi young man of about 23 years old. He thought that by selling his kidney he could get rid of his suffering imposed on him by difficult circumstances that forced him to leave the house of his father who had passed away, after pressures were exerted on him by his stepmother. Thus, overnight, Hussam found himself in the clutches of blood merchants and at the door of an operating room in a school that had been equipped for this purpose.
    The young man says, “One time, I was browsing my phone and found a post on Facebook saying that there were people who wanted someone to donate a kidney to them without the guardian’s consent, and they would bear all the costs of the procedures, tests, and accommodation. The page of the person who published it had a fake name, and I was shocked at the time because the amount of money was large and I was unemployed.”
    After 4 days of conversation between the mediator and Hossam, the latter told him that he accepted the offer and that he was ready to undergo the operation. The young man secretly made that decision, and as soon as the mediator trusted Hossam, he sent him his phone number and set a time to meet him... It was a Saturday evening, and the place was in Dohuk Governorate.  
    “When I entered the place, I thought I was the only one there, but I found two people and a woman over thirty years old. I was not allowed to talk to anyone, and the mediator immediately told me: Go to that room of yours and be ready at 8:00 in the morning,” Hossam added.
    The amount that Hussam agreed upon with the mediator for the kidney was 20 million Iraqi dinars, but the mediator later raised it to 25 million Iraqi dinars. Now, everything is coming to an end, and here Hussam began to feel great fear inside, but he could no longer back down, except that he had no other choice.
    It's over and Hossam sold his kidney.
    “After we had breakfast, someone called the broker and told him the car was waiting,” Hossam says. “I was afraid of everything going on around me, but I had nothing to lose, and returning meant continuing my suffering. When I got into the car, I said to myself that it was over and I had recited the Shahada.”
    He continued: “The place we arrived at was not a health center, but rather something like an old school where there were doctors, but they did not wear their white robes as is customary. I had to enter first, and the mediator gave each of us the full amount, and then I entered the operation, and we did not even sign any papers.”
    It's over now that Hossam has sold the kidney, and after a harsh experience he comes to the conclusion that these traders or brokers do not respect a person for who he is, but for the organs he owns, as he represents to them an organ bank to which they may return at any moment and according to need.    
    Lamia is a victim of fraud and theft.
    Lamia's story is different from Hussam's, but it is shrouded in mystery and strangeness. This Iraqi woman did not resort to selling any of her organs, but was robbed in a hospital in the capital, Baghdad. Lamia says that she entered the hospital to undergo a "hemorrhoid operation," but what happened is suspicious.     
    Lamia says, “I had the operation at the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad, but the pain continued for about 3 months, so my husband and I went to a doctor in Diwaniyah Governorate, and after conducting the tests, he told me: You did not have any fistula operation originally, but rather the right ovary was removed.”
    She continued: "When we confronted the doctor who performed the operation on me, she completely denied it, so we filed a lawsuit against her until she admitted that they had the ovary in the hospital."
    Lamia added: “They tried to silence us with money so that we would not raise this issue, which falls under the framework of human organ trafficking. The strange thing is that I insured my health and went to a government hospital to have a fistula removed, and then my ovary was stolen. To this day, I have not been able to collect anything.”
    Lamia's novel confirms that the activity of organ traffickers is not limited to black rooms or secret basements only, but extends beyond that to the extent of influencing doctors who collude with these networks and their members to extract organs they need. 
    Criminal activity sometimes takes place in the most prestigious hospitals!
    “Sometimes we see this criminal activity happening in the best hospitals in the world, not just in illegal clinics,” says Aimee Comrie, coordinator of the Global Action Project to Combat Trafficking in Persons. “Sometimes doctors themselves are part of these organized networks.”
    In fact, the matter does not end at the point of removing a kidney or giving up an organ and getting money in return, but the consequences may be serious if the person is not able to undergo periodic medical examinations... This is the case of someone who sells an organ from his body, as what drove him to do so is extreme poverty. 
    Here, Hossam says that he is still suffering from complications from the operation, and that his remaining kidney might be damaged and I might die, adding: “What I did was not only a risk, but suicide.”
    “You can live with one kidney when you have regular medical care, go once a month to get your protein levels checked or blood tests, and have regular health insurance,” Aimee explains.
    She added: “What happens is that after the operations, these people will actually suffer negative medical consequences for life, in addition to the fact that they will not tell doctors or health centers for fear of being prosecuted and arrested.”
    The victim is not a criminal!
    What Comrie mentioned here is very important, because the victim in Iraq is the subject of prosecution, detention and prosecution, and is viewed as a participant in the crime rather than a victim, which makes it difficult for the authorities to control these networks, while informing the victims could have contributed to the arrest of many of their members.
    In this context, Comrie calls for victims of trafficking not to be prosecuted, and for them to be recognized as victims as such. 
    “It’s difficult for law enforcement in all countries, not just Iraq, to ​​identify victims because they may have signed a contract and said, ‘Yes, I wanted to give up my kidney,’ and they received a payment,” she continues. “It could be a few hundred dollars, it could be $10,000 in Asia, but the fact that victims received some money doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not victims.”
    The phenomenon of organ trafficking has grown very quickly and has spread to all governorates. What contributes to the spread of this trade is the leniency of the law and the rulings towards human trafficking networks, according to what the human rights activist Muhannad Al-Quraishi says, noting that “whenever members of the organ and human trafficking networks are arrested, they are released in exchange for financial bail.”
    For his part, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and the Security Media Cell, Brigadier General Muqdad Miri, said, “The methods of attracting victims by human trafficking networks are many, and most of them are either through luring, bargaining, or agreements between gangs, while kidnapping issues are very limited, but it can be said that the scope of their work is wide throughout the country.”
    He added, "We are dealing with this matter through an executive and precautionary measure that prevents this crime from occurring through awareness, education, and the use of community police, as well as friends of the Interior Ministry and religious guides, in addition to spreading propaganda against the work of these networks." 
    There are no accurate statistics on this trade due to “attempts to cover up many of the operations by some parties associated with these criminal networks, while the most important factor - according to specialists - who spoke to uncover the threads of this black trade and human trafficking is supporting the victims who fell into the trap, and not looking at them as criminals, followed by institutional treatments to improve the conditions of young people by providing them with job opportunities to dissuade them from thinking about disastrous solutions.
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