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In the article “5 Are Convicted in Kosovo Organ Trafficking”, it was reported that Kosovo, a country in Europe, had connections to a organ trafficking network that sold organs to countries such as the U.S, Germany, Israel, and more. An organ can actually sell for “as much as $130,000 each”; that’s how desperate people are to get their hands on human organs. One tactic that traffickers used to trick people into selling their organs was that they “promised money up to $26,000 to poor people” and persuaded them to travel to Kosovo to donate an organ. These people were also convinced to sign fake documents that stated that they were donating their organs to their relatives, when in reality; they were selling their organs to this huge organ trafficking network. Also, besides the everyday people you’d expect to be involved in organ trafficking, there were several doctors that were involved in this as well. One particular case of organ trafficking that is discussed in this article is about the discovery of a young Turkish man at the Pristina airport, weak and frail, telling police that “one of his kidneys had been stolen”. Through this discovery, the police were able to trace where his missing organ went, to an elderly man from Israel. Organ trafficking is a severe issue that leads to the kidnapping of people, particularly orphans, removing their organs, and dumping their lifeless bodies in the middle of nowhere for others to find. This horrible act doesn’t just occur in America; it also happens in international countries such as Pristina, Kosovo. Overall, organ traffickers go through great lengths to steal human organs from people and sell them to make their profit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/in-kosovo-5-are-convicted-in-organ-trafficking.html