Organ Trafficking in Mozambique



Zenit.org reports that five missionary nuns working in Mozambique have revealed a gruesome network trafficking in human organs that involves kidnap and murder of child victims and the complicity of police. In a report revealed by the Catholic aid agency Veritas, the nuns described “kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of an organ-trafficking network.”

The nuns have received death threats for uncovering the network and report that they have already themselves escaped four attempts at ambush. The nuns were able to gather in the information because the operation was carried out from a property next to their own convent to which some of the child victims fled. The nuns observed the trade where victims are killed and their organs flown out of the country by night.

The report coincides with the disappearance of dozens of local children and youths. One young girl who escaped described being picked up while hitchhiking. The driver asked about her state of health and, on finding her in good health, started driving to the property of a “white couple” who appear to be running the network. The girl fled the vehicle and escaped.

The sisters investigated in the local neighborhoods “and found a place in the city in which there was a corpse that had the eyes, heart and kidneys removed.”

In the sisters' account, the local authorities, to whom they initially reported, are corrupt and indifferent. “There is great corruption in Mozambique after so many years of war,” the report said. “The police, the airport, the local government — all are implicated.”

The sisters were forced to go to another community to alert competent authorities. “The local authority is completely involved through bribes and, despite knowledge of many of these facts, no one has yet been arrested,” the report said.

(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)

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