Nepal is a small, landlocked country with a long history, intricate religious rituals, splendid ancient culture and beautiful natural scenery.
Because it is located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, the folk customs are simple, the natural scenery is beautiful, the climate is pleasant, and the hiking tourism and mountaineering industry are relatively developed, so the tourism industry is one of the important sources of GDP in the country, but it has also attracted the coveting of foreign lawbreakers.
Behind this piece of beauty and peace, there is a dark secret hidden, the following pictures are from the Youku documentary "Nepal's organ trade Nepal's organ trail"
In the village of Caver in Nepal, where people mainly live on farming and have a simple heart, you will see a beautiful rural pastoral painting here. Of course, this is only what we see as tourists, and there are many things behind it that we can't understand.
The village is also known around the world for its other name, "Nepal's Kidney Bank", because of its low cultural literacy and poverty, and the villagers here have been targeted by the international black market human trafficking organization.
Victim interviewed: Nori Parrell
He was a simple farmer who mainly sold milk for a living, and in his spare time he would work on other farms to support his family by doing small and piecemeal jobs.
The house is surrounded by walls and uses the most rudimentary tools, a poverty that is unimaginable to us, but what makes this home even worse is that Nori Parrell's health is worse every day.
It turned out that many years ago, he had worked in Kathmandu, and the foreman told him that there was a big deal that was very easy to make money, hoping that he could participate.
Just go to the hospital, have the doctor cut off a part of your body, and promise that the cut part will grow back, and you can get 300,000 rupees, or about $30,000 (based on the documentary shooting time).
When he was operating at the hospital, the organ trafficker asked him to say that the recipient was his sister, but in the end he only received less than $300, equivalent to less than 2,000 yuan at most, and no one has contacted him since.
After returning, the weakness and discomfort of his body made him go to the hospital, only to find that his kidneys had been taken away. For a farmer who needs to do heavy work, it is equivalent to half a wasted man.
He was no longer needed on the farm where he used to work part-time, and his life became increasingly difficult and threatened the family's livelihood, and his wife was forced to take on most of the labor.
Maybe we will find it very unbelievable, the human body except nails, hair... Is there anything that can grow back after being lost? Kidneys are not the fruit of the tree, this is not too good to deceive!
I think there may be three reasons: one is the poverty of culture, the horror of ignorance, the second is the clever tongue and violent coercion of criminal gangs, after all, the means of scammers now make highly educated people fall into traps, and the third is the backwardness of the country's economic level and the people's living difficulties.
Farming and raising livestock are the only source of income for most of the village's population, and the backward level of science and technology, the unstable natural climate, coupled with frequent earthquake disasters, make this already poor area even worse.
The embarrassment of reality makes people helpless, and the ignorance and shallowness of culture make these people particularly deceitful. So once the organ traffickers come to the village and tell them that there is a fast and time-saving way to make money, many people will be full of expectations and curiosity.
These willing people showed us the scars
As few as Nori Parrell tells you that you need surgery, most of them trick you into doing high-paying work in the field or abroad, and then coerce you to have surgery. And once they are deceived, they will not be able to get justice for themselves, because they will be threatened and intimidated by international trafficking organizations.
Someone was tricked into going to India, saying that he was working in a local hospital, and he needed a medical examination during the interview, so he lay down in bed, was drugged, and when he woke up again, he found that he had lost a kidney, but he was only paid $10.
Does it make you feel angry and unacceptable?! What can I do for a mere ten dollars?
Some people are very alert, and when they find that the problem is not right in India, they refuse surgery and ask to go home, but they are forced to undergo surgery, and they are beaten, placed under house arrest and threatened, and even not paid a penny.
Some children are not yet 18 years old, and how to survive when they encounter old and inhuman liars at an age of ignorance? A very small number of people are voluntary, because they are poor, because they are naïve, thinking that they can solve the urgent needs of the moment, but they do not expect to fall into a deeper and bottomless dry well.
Most of the abductees here were operated on in neighboring India, where organ donation is strict and the recipient and the donor must be related, otherwise it is forbidden.
And Nepal borders India on three sides, the border management is very relaxed, maybe India is a rich power for them, loose entry and exit is for the convenience of trade?! Nepalese do not need a visa to enter India.
Across from China is a Kunlun Mountain Range, and Mount Everest. It is really inconvenient for ordinary business travelers
Many surgeries are performed in well-known local hospitals in India, are doctors involved?
It turns out that some patients in local organ surgery are from abroad, as long as the donor can issue the relevant documents required by the local government, this operation is legal, the doctor will not be too entangled in comparison, in fact, it is to turn a blind eye!
Forging documents is a trivial matter for the International Human Trafficking Organization, all dirty transactions can be laundered through documents, it is a bottom-up system, some people are responsible for documents, some people are looking for suitable healthy people, and some people have opened up the necessary network of relationships.
And the already loose and loose terms are full of loopholes, and it is easy to see the needle in the seam.
Nepal's backward technology, the archives of its own residents are not perfect, and it is really like a child's play to confirm the legitimacy of donors by stamping official seals.
As long as the Nepalese embassy confirms that this operation can be done, the Hospital in India will naturally not pursue too much, and this kind of carving craftsmanship is a large number of Chinese hutongs.
This system is a cobweb for local villagers, and once the small insects fly in, it is difficult to escape.
Of course, the disclosure of the documentary for more people to see will also arouse the attention of the national government, and I only hope that such tragedies will be less and less.
Although there is only one kidney, a person can live, but it requires careful care and regular medical examinations to maintain health, which is basically impossible for the poor peasants in The village of Cavel to meet.
Some people have not even undergone a physical examination after surgery
I have also recommended a documentary "The Price of Sex" before, which is mainly about after the fission in Eastern Europe, many women from small countries were trafficked to Europe for sex work due to poverty, most of them never returned, and very few lucks escaped, but they were also scarred.
Backward will be beaten, before it was a war, now it is an invisible black hand, making you more invincible. There are always corners of this world that the sun can't shine, and only by understanding the darkness will we not be swallowed up by the darkness.
Only when the country is rich and the people are strong will it not become a nation that has been deceived and killed.