China Murders 70,000 Folks a Yr for Their Organs

With President Trump set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday for a high stakes summit on issues like the Iran war, trade policies, and artificial intelligence, lawmakers and human rights advocates say that the American leader must address perhaps the most shocking and gruesome human rights violation uncovered in the 21st century: the communist regime’s ongoing clandestine organ transplant industry fueled by harvesting the organs of prisoners of conscience and religious minorities.

Experts like Jan Jekielek, a senior editor at The Epoch Times and author of The New York Times bestseller “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary,” say that the true nature of the horror is “beyond what most people can imagine,” with a history rooted at the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party coming to power over 75 years ago.

“There [are] a few dimensions that you need that really only the Chinese Communist Party can enact,” he explained during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Tuesday. “One of them is you have to have the ability to dehumanize an entire group of people … and at the same time, you have to have the ability to incarcerate a huge group of people. So communist China has both these abilities. They have this history of creating what are called ‘black classes’ — a group that the regime deems the enemy of the state that is then struggled against by the society, and they say all sorts of horrible things about these people.”

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“[T]he landowners were one of the first groups,” Jekielek chronicled. “They wanted to seize their land. So you have to kind of convince the population that it’s okay to do that and perhaps harm or even kill these people if they don’t re-educate effectively. And there’ve been many groups like this over the years. For example, in 1989, it was the pro-democracy students [who] became the newest black class. In 1999, there was a group called Falun Gong practitioners that became the newest black class. This was a very popular qigong practice — slow motion exercises [with] core principles of spirituality, truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. [Practitioners] liv[ed] these principles very seriously. [The movement was] very grassroots, very bottom up and massive. It grew to 70 to 100 million people, by the government’s own estimate by the end of the ’90s, and they decided to crush it. So they turned them into a black class.”

Jekielek went on to detail how Falun Gong practitioners “refused to be re-educated in large numbers. They wouldn’t be broken, so to speak, and so they were incarcerated. We don’t know how many. In 2005, the State Department estimated that half of all the people in China’s massive incarceration system were Falun Gong practitioners. And this is what sets the stage for this ‘kill to order’ enterprise.”

For an ethical organ transplant to occur, Jekielek described, “Someone has to have a catastrophic accident, and on top of that, the organ has to match [for] blood type [and] tissue type [so that it won’t be] rejected from the other body.” But in 2005, a disturbing situation was uncovered in China by a whistleblower.

“[A] surgeon said he has a patient [who] goes to China, and the guy gets an organ in two weeks,” Jekielek recounted. “So the catastrophic accidents [were] being arranged by the regime there — someone’s being killed. But how do you get the two weeks? Well, they start blood typing, tissue typing, and organ scanning the Falun Gong [prisoners]. They create a database [with the] unique set of variables that you need to find that person to be the perfect match that exists in the database. And the money is paid for the transplant. Tourists pay $100 or $200,000, then that person can be killed to order.”

In March 2020, an independent international tribunal released its findings cataloging extensive evidence verifying the existence of China’s covert organ harvesting operation. Since then, eyewitness accounts of doctors forced to carry out organ transplants on living prisoners have proliferated. “We have about 20 years [worth of] evidence,” Jekielek underscored. “[I]n 2000, there’s almost no organ industry in China. By 2005, there’s just about 150 hospitals doing transplantation. [It has now become] an estimated $9 billion annual industry.”

Jekielek further detailed how the CCP has executed scores of Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority primarily located in China’s northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang, as a primary way of facilitating its organ harvesting operation. “[T]he regime added a new black class [in 2015 by] dehumaniz[ing] the Uyghurs. … They incarcerated a million plus of them, and they started blood typing [and] tissue typing, even people in their homes. This is all a state secret, but we believe that they incarcerated … a million plus Uyghurs. … The whole region is under police control, so they actually can pull people from their homes because they’ve got that information in the database.”

The continuing atrocity has gotten the attention of Congress, with Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) organizing a hearing on the crisis scheduled for Thursday, the first day of Trump and Xi’s summit. In May of last year, the House almost unanimously passed the Smith-sponsored Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, which would “impose civil penalties of up to $250,000 and criminal penalties of a fine up to $1 million and up to 20 years in prison for anyone suspected of human trafficking for organ harvesting, as well as sanctions on foreign nationals engaged in the practice.” But as of now, the bill has not been taken up by the Senate. A competing Senate bill introduced in March by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act has also stalled.

Meanwhile, Smith estimates that at least 70,000 people per year are murdered for their organs by the CCP. Others suggest the number could be as high as 100,000 victims each year.

As for whether President Trump will bring up the issue with Xi, Jekielek expressed skepticism. “The president likes to be on good terms with these prime antagonists of America, as is evident. So one way [Trump could address it] would simply be [to say], ‘Hey, listen, do you really want to have this on your record? Do you want your legacy, Mr. Xi, to be the murderous, forced organ harvesting industry that’s cost hundreds of thousands of lives?’

LifeNews Note: Dan Hart writes for the Family Research Council. He is the senior editor of The Washington Stand.