Published on 9th June, 2003

Forced Ablations of Internal Organs

Vakha Hasanov, Kavkaz-Center, Russia

Russian sources reported about the facts of forced ablations of internal organs from live humans. Thus, investigations in the Moscow Coordinating Center of Organ Donors uncovered the start of the operation on removing a kidney before the patient was pronounced dead.

This is what the response of Russia’s Office of Attorney General says, which was forwarded to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov in regards to the inspection of the legitimacy of the actions carried out by the law enforcement who stopped the surgery that the Center’s experts were performing on donor Orekhov A.T. on 11th April  this year.( 2003)

"The Center’s employees had the right to start the operation on removing the kidney only after the report of Mr. Orekhov’s biological death has been drawn up and signed by resuscitation expert, by the one in charge of the resuscitation unit and by a forensic expert", – the Office of Attorney General stressed.

"However, during the examination of the scene of the incident no such document was found. At the same time, blank forms of statements of biological death and statements on extraction of organs (kidney) for transplantation signed by forensic experts were impounded from the Center’s doctors", – the reply by the Office of Attorney General says.

Mr. Orekhov was taken to the 20th Hospital in the morning of 11th April, 2003 with a craniocerebral trauma (head trauma). The patient’s condition was said to be extremely serious, therefore the Donor Center reported a potential donor being available. At 16:35 (4:35 PM) Moscow Time, the Center’s field group started preparing for a surgery on forced ablation of kidney from a live patient.

Business on human organs in Russia has been drawing the attention of the researchers and experts for quite a while. But still, as far as this business goes, which in Russia has turned into one of the most horrible and one of the bloodiest sources of profits, it is veiled in mystery and secrecy. Only very few facts of that terrifying business flourishing in Putin’s Russia ever get publicized.

The most horrifying and bloodiest traces of that business were discovered in Chechnya. Not too long ago Kavkaz Center published the analysis compiled by Health Minister of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Umar Khanbiyev concerning the facts of extractions of internal organs from live Chechen hostages, committed by Russian secret services, by the military and by civil structures of Russia.

"Chechen doctors got irrefutable proofs of ablation of internal from the hostages in the beginning of the year 2000, when they examined relatively intact dead bodies that the invaders dumped near the roads. The bodies had traces of surgical operations, i.e. they were autopsied for the purpose of extracting some organs. The doctors who examined the dead bodies claim that the wounds on the corpses were not a result of a post-mortem examination or an autopsy, as the Russian invaders hurried to irresponsibly claim, but these cuts were left after the surgeries performed on live humans".

Let me quote some excerpts from the conclusion made in one statement after a body examination, where the doctors testify:

"…As it can be seen from the sections of burns on the wound’s tissue, typical for burns left by a cauterodyne, which surgeons use during operations in order to stop vessels in the wound from bleeding, the wound in the area of the corpse’s abdomen is a result of a surgery called laparotomy, performed when the patient was still alive, just before the death. … Besides, sections of extravasations (hematomas), typical for surgeries on live tissues, are present on parietal peritoneum in the area of the laparotomy wound and in the area of the kidney projection.

… Segment of the inferior fistular vein in the projection of the kidney’s portal vein has been resected; distant and proximal ends of the inferior fistular vein on the resected section are sutured with a surgical stapling instrument,… while the rest of the organs of the abdominal cavity are cut out coarsely and were possibly removed by using a common. There are no other sections where the vessels would be tied up… In the area of clavicle on the right-hand side there is a punctated wound with subcutaneous hematoma, which points at the subclavian vein catheterization as an anaesthetic aid during the surgery…"

It allowed the doctors to make a conclusion: "… Traces of ablation of kidney (possibly for transplantation purposes) while the patient was still alive are present on the corpse".

This is the record made by a doctor who examined the corpse only superficially, and during a forensic examination a mass of other proofs that the patient was alive would have been found, and it will not be that difficult for the doctors to confirm this particular statement or other statements once the body is exhumed.

In Mr. Khanbiyev’s opinion, who in turn refers to his Russian colleagues whose names are not revealed for clear reasons, the ablation of internal from hostages happens not in Chechnya, and not even in any of the adjacent republics of provinces, otherwise it would have been exposed in no time.

"The hostages are taken to Moscow or to the Moscow Province (Oblast), i.e. where they will be least searched for and where there is tighter security at the facilities where they are held. The fact that there are no live witnesses testifies that these surgeries are performed by the FSB from beginning to end, and this is the way they do it – without leaving any witnesses. For some reason the corpses of the hostage donors after the ablations are transported back where they came from and dumped near the villages and roads, I can’t understand why. Maybe Putin is still thinking about the consequences and guessing that sooner or later he will have to answer for it. It will be more difficult to answer for a disappeared hostage when there are facts that the hostage was detained by state power structures, so it is the state, i.e. Putin, who will has to be held responsible for that".

According to Umar Khanbiyev’s information, over 60 clinics and institutions in Russia and abroad are using the "services" of hostage donors from Chechnya. In Moscow alone there are 16 of these "customers". The lists also contain clinics in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. When the Clinic of Albert Ludwig University (Germany) was mentioned, it was sensational and speaks a lot.

The donors are transported abroad while they are still alive. In Moscow or in St. Petersburg the ordered organ gets ablated and then shipped to any part of the globe. It only takes a few hours, which allows swift delivery of a transplantable organ to the customer. And the customers have no inkling that the organs that are being shipped to them belong to the hostages from Chechnya.

Here are the organizations mentioned in this case most frequently:

• Russian Army Medical College of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (City of St. Petersburg)

• N.N. Burdenko Central Military Hospital of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

• Scientific Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of Russia’s Ministry of Health

• Russian Scientific Center of Surgery (of Russian Academy of Sciences)

• Central Scientific X-Ray Radiological Institute of Russia’s Ministry of Health (City of St. Petersburg)

• N.F. Sklifosovsky Scientific Research Institute of First Aid