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Exposing the Dark Details of China's Illegal Organ Harvesting | Jan Jekielek
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Jan Jekielek
By 1999, there were 70 to 100 million people by government estimate, doing this, bigger than the Communist Party. The communists decided to crush it. Okay, didn't necessarily mean kill everybody or something, but re educate them, transform them, brainwash them. It's kind of standard operating procedure for the Communist party over the years. But these people proved unusually resilient, okay, so they pushed mass propaganda into the system, dehumanized them. In the process of this persecution, they straight out of 1930s Germany, actually talking points. This is what we're talking about. And they incarcerated perhaps a million, perhaps two. We don't know the exact numbers. The UN in 05 said that half of the people in that whole massive incarceration system they have in China were Falun Gong, right? So now what happened is some very evil person figured out, hey, wait a second, I can actually monetize this, right? Blood type, tissue type, organs, can get the vitals of a whole lot of people in. In the system who, by the way, are known to be unusually healthy. And now if someone's got the money and they put it down, they're already pre matched because in a database, someone that matches them, because there's this large population already exists and they can be shipped and killed to order. Which is why the name of my book is Killed to Order.
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Dave Rubin
I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the senior editor of Epic Times and author of the new book Killed to Order, Jan Yekelik. How are you, my friend?
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Jan Jekielek
Dave, it's so good to be here.
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Dave Rubin
It's good to see you. I'm trying to think. You have interviewed me probably two dozen times. Have I ever interviewed you before? I'm not sure.
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Jan Jekielek
I don't think so. Yeah, I've had you on American Thought Leaders a number of times and. And I have to say I've enjoyed that as well. And we've run into each other a lot, but I think this is the first time I haven't done this side of the interview as much lately. It's been a lot.
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Dave Rubin
All right, well, I'll try not to beat you up too hard, but yes, we cross paths Constantly at all of these different conferences and events. And I always enjoy chatting with you. And we'll get you on a regular panel show because you talk about a series of different things. However, the book is super interesting and it's not a topic that I talk about too often. Obviously, people sort of talk about China these days. It's hard to figure out who really understands what's going on with China. But the focus of the book is about China's organ harvesting operations. So I guess maybe why don't we start with how did this get on your radar? Why do you care about this first? And then we'll dive into some of the specifics.
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Jan Jekielek
Well, so I was in the China human rights space, and how I fell into that is a whole nother big story. But I knew very early on that this, you know, there was a narrative. Well, let's call it the Kissinger Doctrine. The narrative was that if the US Pumps enough cash into China, right, And know how and support and everything, then China's going to liberalize. It's going to become another Taiwan or South Korea or something like that. And I already knew back in the year 2000 that they were literally killing people for refusing to give up their faith. Okay. And that's like, you know, there's a reason that, that, you know, freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom of assembly, all that is the First Amendment, okay? Protections from government. A state that does that, you know, is not liberalizing, doesn't matter what they say performatively. Right, but, but the narrative, I mean, this was Republican, Democrat, everyone kind of believed this. And, you know, we essentially over the years built our biggest adversary, which is in the subtitle of Kill to order. So in 2006, I'd heard rumors that there's some kind of weird organ trafficking happening in China. But by 2006, independently, two different whistleblowers of sorts came forward with really shocking information that. That was credible. So one was, and this is what really, this is where I said, okay, you know what? My skepticism has now been overcome because I'm very. I'm overly skeptical of most things. Right. It's a kind of a problem in a way. But, but there, there was a woman named Annie who had. That's a pseudonym. She had a husband who was a surgeon. And the husband confessed to her after basically almost destroying their relationship because he was having nightmares. He was just kind of unable to function almost, that he had removed 2,000 corneas from living people. Okay. And that there was a sort of a camp that was filled with Falun Gong practitioners. I'll explain that connection in a moment. That was being used. People are being shipped in here and basically used as these unwilling donors of different organs, including corneas. That was one, okay. Simultaneously in Israel, okay. There was a man named Jakob Levy who has become a hero of this kind of movement, of exposing this issue. He was the head of the Israeli Transplant Association. At one point he was a, you know, a professor of surgery at Tel Aviv University. Heart surgeon, heart transplant surgeon. And he had a patient who told him one day, hey, listen, I've talked to him about this. It's absolutely shocking that he was tired of waiting and he was going to go to China and get his heart in two weeks scheduled. Right. And this is sort of. There's a number of red flags here, okay? One of them is that if you. For a heart transplant to be scheduled, you have to know when someone's going to be dead. In an ethical situation, there has to be a catastrophic accident and they have to match your blood type, tissue type, size, you know, but here, two weeks guaranteed, right? So you know when someone's going to be dead, meaning you're making them dead. And number two, somehow you're able to find this perfect match to this person, right. In the span of two weeks when most people have to wait months or years to get their transplant. Right? So, and this, the combination of this, these two men from Canada, human rights lawyers, they wrote a report finding 17 lines of evidence that explained, yes, this is. There's a. There's a terrible atrocity happening in China. And what it is, is in 1999, the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting a group called Falun Gong. It wasn't even really a group. It's very grassroots movement, very self directed, truthfulness, compassion, forbearance. These people are practicing it. And it's spread by word of mouth, people sharing it, one with each other. Okay? And by 1999, there were 70 to 100 million people by government estimate, doing this, bigger than the Communist Party. The communists decided to crush it. Okay. Didn't necessarily mean kill everybody or something, but re. Educate them, transform them, brainwash them. It's kind of standard operating procedure for the Communist Party over the years. But these people proved unusually resilient. Okay? So they pushed mass propaganda into the system, dehumanized them. In the process of this persecution, straight out of 1930s Germany, actually, talking points, this is what we're talking about. And they incarcerated perhaps a million, perhaps two. We don't know the exact numbers. The UN in 05 said that half of the people in that whole massive incarceration system they have in China were Falun Gong, right? So now what happened is some very evil person figured out, hey, wait a second, I can actually monetize this, right? Blood type, tissue type, organ scan, get the vitals of a whole lot of people in the system who by the way, are known to be unusually healthy. And now if someone's got the money and they put it down, they're already pre matched because in a database someone that matches them because there's this large population already exists and they can be shipped and killed to order. Which is why the name of my book is Killed to Order.
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Dave Rubin
Right? So there's so much here. I mean this literally sounds like a sci fi movie. It's got components of a lot of different sci fi movies actually. So, okay, so they arrested, I mean this is what dystopian sci fi is all about, actually. So they arrest these people, now they come in and they have this program. How were they killing people and how were they communicating with other people to say, oh, we've got the good.
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Jan Jekielek
So to the best of our knowledge, this is done through the military channels because most of the hospitals involved, okay, in doing this forced organ harvesting industry, or killed, let's call it the kill to order industry, are military hospitals. And there's also a very good transportation network and communication network in the military. So the best understanding from the research is that's what's used. So if someone, if a hospital on one side of China gets the contract for 200k, it's not that hard to ship the person, you know, to be used as this unwilling donor from even across the country because the, the structure, remember? So this is where this sort of top down, I call it, obscenely hierarchical structure that the CCP operates comes in very handy, right, because you can, you, you have this sort of, you know, easy communication cooperation that can happen.
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Dave Rubin
So, okay, so they get the hospital then gets the person, kills them, I assume, I assume some form of euthanizing them or something. They then harvest the organs.
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Jan Jekielek
Let me comment on that actually, because. So one of the pieces of evidence that came in after there was a China tribunal that was held late 2018 to early 2020. Sir Geoffrey Nees, who had prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic, chaired a large people's tribunal of experts and they looked through all of it and they found even within two months of the starting to the study, they said this is absolutely happening, but we're going to continue and look at the comprehensive set they published, they published a massive tome of evidence, okay, related to this. But even subsequent to that, there's a paper in the American Journal of transplantation from 2022, I believe, titled Execution by Organ Procurement. Execution by organ Procurement. So what did they do? The researchers looked at the published, peer reviewed Chinese transplant literature, okay? They looked through 2,000 to 3,000 papers and they asked the question, is the dead donor rule being violated? Okay. And they found that in 70 instances in the methods, the published public methods, the dead donor rule is being violated. And what that means to your point earlier, right, in answer to your question, that means that the method of that person's death is the organ removal itself. They're being killed by their organs being removed. Right. And the way I read that, right, is it's become so normalized, remember, like they built this massive bureaucracy. In 2000, there was very little organ procurement happening in China. They incarcerate the million or whatever it is, Falun Gong practitioners, and then it just grows geometrically. Thousands of transplant hospitals built, you know, tens of thousands of transplants being done up to. By around 2010, it's 60 to 90,000 transplants a year is the number we're looking at. Right? But it just grows, it grows like crazy. So they built this whole massive system, bureaucracy, monstrous machinery, right, to do it. And now it's kind of churning through and basically doing this. And people are just have gotten used to that. This is how organ transplantation works in China, right? And so they actually write it into their. They write this, you know, essentially murder into the scientific methods of their papers.
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Dave Rubin
Wow, it's just so incredible. So someone goes in, they want their heart, so in essence they kill them for their heart. Now there's obviously many other organs that are going to be useful. I assume they're harvesting all of those extra organs and then that's just going down the chain as well.
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Jan Jekielek
I would guess that like we don't. So the surgeons that we have who are whistleblowers, who have actually been involved in this, none of them are from the stage where it's really scaled. Like there's people who have work who, you know, basically killed a prisoner through harvesting their organs under military guard. There's one surgeon that did that and he couldn't live with himself, you know, basically, and has told the tale. But, but at the. So we don't know exactly, but the assumption is, yes, especially since the advent of ECMO technology, right? ECMO is something that bypasses the heart and lungs. It's a machine The. It's used to keep people alive that have, you know, need some kind of brain surgery and so forth. Very useful for this. So potentially you can find, you know, multiple recipients from a single body. So the 60 to 90,000 transplants doesn't translate into 60 to 90,000 people. Right. It could be quite a number less than that, but it's still an incredibly large number of transplants we're talking about.
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Dave Rubin
So now that some of this is being exposed, and I suspect your book will go a long way to exposing it further. I mean, do you expect anything to change? I mean, the Chinese have a pretty insular system. If they feel they're getting away with something, there's not. There's not a ton of pressure that the outside world can put on them.
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Jan Jekielek
Right. Well, there's a lot of things we can do. And this is so the first thing that's really neat about this time. This is why I'm actually optimistic in the face of everything we just discussed. Okay. For years, when I talked about this issue with people, I mean, I've been working on it for 20 years, right? People would. In the. As I start talking about it, people would clue out from the conversation, like, literally, and I would kind of understand why they're cluing out. Because it's so horrible, right? You don't want to have to deal with the reality. But that's changed, and I think it's maybe the COVID years that have changed that. I think some of what we saw, like our own society going crazy around authoritarian ideas, right? That made no sense. But also in China, you know, they were welding people into their homes, you know, again, for no particularly good reason, just because they thought they could control a respiratory virus through extreme totalitarian means. It's just this. It's kind of a weird mindset. I feel like people have changed their minds. So now when I talk to people about it, they go, wow, that's horrible. This is science fiction. What a monstrosity. I can't believe that's happening. Right. And so there's actually two pieces of federal legislation right now that have passed the House near unanimously. One's called the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act. Another one's called the Falun Gong Protection act, even though it protects anyone who would be harvested. Right. It actually. This is one of the tragedies. I'll just mention this, right? No one did anything about it for 14 or 15 years. When they started using the Falun Gong as this sort of fodder for this kill to order industry in 2014, 2015, they added the Uyghur people, right? Another very vulnerable group that they dehumanized and incarcerated en masse, perhaps a million, perhaps more people, and they started working on them. There's even a halal organs market that they're feeding. It's crazy, right? But this is what happens with crimes against humanity, by the way. They spread, right? This is, this is one of the. I'm worried they're spreading further. Now that's a whole different discussion. But in answer to your question, what can we do? Well, one, right. One of the policies of the Falun Gong Protection act, one of the provisions is the US Policy should be, did not cooperate with anything related to the transplant industry, okay? And communist China. And this is something actually that the administration could do very easily. Like we, we train surgeons in China, transplant surgeons, we have research partnerships, we have research funding from nih. There was even a letter that the Select Committee on the CCP sent to Harvard about this general topic some months ago. It's actually, you know, so that we can, at the very least, we can remove our own complicity in it, which is actually considerable because we even supply some of the materials, technologies, solutions, all sorts of stuff, right? But at a bigger level, right, this stuff, these, these two pieces of legislation, they sanction people that are involved in this for life. And a lot of these Chinese super elites, you may be aware, there's an economic, bit of economic turmoil happening in China. They all have exit strategies and some of them are to America. And they're going to the people that want to come to America, which is quite a few, they're going to think twice. They're going to say, hey, maybe I don't, shouldn't be involved in this anymore because I don't want to be unable to do my exit strategy, right? So there's, I don't think we can end it like with a snap of the fingers, but I think we can put a dent in it and at least remove ourselves from it.
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Dave Rubin
Do we know if it's happening anywhere else in the world? I mean, I'm sure not at the scale that you've just described, but there must be incidences of these types of things happening.
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Jan Jekielek
There's organ trafficking happening in many places, horribly. Okay? There's, there's black market organ rings that have been documented in multiple places in Mexico, India, I mean, all over the place. But there's only one place that can do it at this industrial scale because you really need a state actor to do it. You need to be able to incarcerate this massive group of people and dehumanize them, right? Because you kind of have to convince the population, right? Not everybody's a psychopath. So we have this weird trick of our psychology that when we start believing people are bad or less than us or somehow harming society through the propaganda, it makes it easier for us to do horrible things to them, right? So all these components are necessary to have this next level system that Communist China is employing.
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Dave Rubin
It's an absolutely fascinating topic. The book is killed to Order. And Jan, we will have you on for the topics of the day in the next little bit. It was good to see you, my friend.
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Jan Jekielek
I would love to killtoorder.com if you want to get the book that direct to the Amazon link. Thank you so much, Dave. This is awesome.
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Dave Rubin
Link right down below. We're professional operation over here. All right. Thanks, Jan.
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Jan Jekielek
Thank you, sir.
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Dave Rubin
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