thalenoi Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Since two weeks I hear this alarming story of a minivan driving around the Udon province villages kidnapping young people to take out organs such as eyes etc, which then are sold to people who need transplants. I take this is rubbish, but the gf claims many villages have been warned by the pooyabaan and she said this was announced on the village loudspeakers. We live too far from there for me to hear (and I would not understand) but the gf claims she heard this herself at her parents house (where she goes almost daily eating som tam....) I still think this is rubbish and an urban myth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Only place is this really true is China. They use condemed crimminals. Of coures, who decides who is a condemed crimminal. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Funny, Just PT-ing with a board member regarding this. My wife related this story to me about 3 or 4 weeks ago, between Hua Hin and BKK. Van waited outside a school, loaded children inside and took off. Never to be seen again! She heard it from relatives and she claims she heard it on Channel 3 news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Same rumour was going around here years ago, supoposedly people woke up in a tub of ice stictched up, and were told to call 911...I believe it has all been debunked since...as for LOS, who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLeakHunt Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 I was in Macau recently for an extended visa run and got handed some leaflets by people protesting about "organ harvesting" in mainland China. Apparently doctors or the harvesters were targetting practitioners of a religious sect called "Falan Gong" as there donors, the leaflets even had reports from the doctors who'd been forced to remove eyes and kidneys while the patients were still alive. All a bit spooky for me to be honest. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporty Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 China, I believe it. In Harvard Square, (Peoples Republic of Cambridge, MA), there are demonstrators, with pamplets, and poster boards full of photos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David99UK Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Channel hopped through a news item on the BBC TV last week, showed film of a woman with new operation scars in Sri Lanka, claimed it was post Tsunami poverty driven......but who knows...... BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Well, in India the poor are paid to donate a kidney. Eye transplants are not now possible. A cornea transplant is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thalenoi Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Limbo, It probably originates from your story, I remember her mentionning a similar story originally: some kids kidnapped ex-school, might have hit the news and warnings going around the villages. Unfortunately these things happen, around 20 years ago Nathalie Hybrechts was seen to enter a car with a man when waiting for the schoolbus at Bertem, Belgium. The parents are still hoping one day Nathalie will knock on their door :alert: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Look at Austrian story last eyar, where a girl was snatched away, only to be found what, 14 or so years later? Still a terrifying thought for a parent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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