China Accused of Harvesting Organs From Prisoners—And No One Wants to Talk About It – RedState

When the Romans fed Christians in the arena, they no longer sold the bodies as food to lions in supermarkets. But the Chinese Communists figured out how to do it. That’s the shocking idea behind Jan Jekielek’s new book, “Killed to Order.”

The ugly question behind all this is not difficult to understand. How does a transplant system produce organs in days or weeks while patients in the United States wait months or years?

In a follow-up interview after speaking at the Trump Kennedy Center on Monday, Jekielek pointed out to me what he considers one of the hardest numbers to dismiss. Researcher Ethan Gutmann, he said, “has defended under oath the figure of 60 to 100,000 transplants per year…and that’s a low limit.”

And the system, if this estimate is even close to the truth, is not shrinking. During the event, Jekielek highlighted the growth of the transplant infrastructure itself, noting that “there were 146 hospitals…there are now 200 hospitals” capable of performing these procedures.

That’s not what a handful of bad actors look like. This is a large-scale capability. It’s a system. And that begs the question that most people would rather not pursue: what kind of device can handle that kind of volume at that kind of speed?

Jekielek’s book doesn’t revolve around the answer. It describes “a vast enterprise” that systematically obtained organs from living prisoners of conscience and other targeted groups.

And the argument presented is not based on a single sinister anecdote. It is built on a model. Investigators have long pointed out the mismatch between official donation figures and the volume of transplants, then asked the obvious question: How do you continue to meet demand so quickly? One of the book’s most troubling responses is what researchers have called “execution by organ harvesting,” meaning that the act of removing the organ is itself what causes death.

If that still seems impossible, the details aren’t any easier to ignore. The book references accounts in which detainees are subjected to repeated medical tests while in detention, not for their own care, but to assess the compatibility of their organs. In some cases, according to these accounts, “teams of surgeons remove… organs from people who are still alive, and then the bodies are cremated.”

It is no longer about politics or even human rights as we usually talk about. It’s about process.

Jekielek made this clear during our interview.

“The crime scene is an operating room…cleaned every time. »

This reality partly explains why this issue has remained on the fringes, despite years of reporting, congressional testimony and independent investigations. If the crime scene is cleaned each time, the evidence does not remain: it accumulates. Piece by piece. And over time, the pattern stops looking like a coincidence and starts looking like a design.

During the event, this accumulation was the important point. Rather than relying on a single shocking claim, the discussion progressed step by step through logic, from wait times for transplants to hospital capacity to documented inconsistencies in official data. By the time we return to the central allegation, the question had changed. It was no longer a question of whether this statement seemed extreme. It was a question of whether anyone in the room could come up with a more plausible explanation.

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Actor Rob Schneider’s role in the discussion made this change visible. He responded to the evidence as it was presented, reflecting what much of the public was facing in real time. Initial disbelief has given way to a more muted realization that, taken together, the elements are difficult to reconcile with a purely voluntary system.

Jekielek is cautious about how far he pushes his claims, but he doesn’t remain vague about where they lead. While Falun Gong practitioners have long been identified in news reports as the main victims, he warned that the system, if it existed on a large scale, would not long remain limited to a single group.

“I am sincerely concerned that they are looking for new groups to add to this death machine,” Jekielek said in our follow-up interview.

The book names Uyghurs and other persecuted populations as targets within a system that turns repression into a resource.

This possibility does not stop at China’s borders. It focuses on Western institutions, including medical and academic partners who have worked alongside these systems. It also raises an uncomfortable reality about incentives. Access to China for research, reporting or business purposes creates pressure. And that pressure goes in one direction: not pursuing stories that might compromise that access. Jekielek was frank when I asked him. “They’re afraid to touch it.”

The reason is simple. Credible reporting on this topic has consequences, particularly for organizations that depend on continued access to Chinese institutions and markets. “If they talk about this credibly, they will lose this. »

This gap between the seriousness of the allegations and the level of sustained attention is not accidental. This is not just a problem of evidence. It is psychological and institutional. And yet, this is starting to change. Jekielek told me that reactions changed as more information was released. “Most people I talk to these days are horrified. »

The claims presented in “Killed to Order” are not only disturbing. It is difficult to place them in a familiar setting. They force a confrontation with something profoundly wrong existing in plain sight, sustained not only by secrecy but also by disbelief. Even if part of this statement is true, the comparison is not rhetorical. There is a system that turns the human body into a resource and, unlike the Romans, this time the world continues to do business with it.

Editor’s Note: For decades, past presidents have done nothing but talk. Now, Donald Trump eliminates the Iranian threat once and for all.

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