Twenty years ago, this was a topic people tuned out and turned away from, according to author Jan Jekielek. That has changed.
A new book exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) decades-long practice of forced organ harvesting from religious believers has hit the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list.
“Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” appeared at No. 8 on the list March 25, reflecting the first week of sales.
The CCP’s forced organ harvesting is an issue author Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times and host of “American Thought Leaders” on EpochTV, has covered for 20 years, and the book distills the most compelling evidence from two decades of independent investigations, testimonies, and firsthand experience.
Twenty years ago, this was a topic people tuned out and turned away from, according to Jekielek. That’s changed—as evidenced by the thousands who have already bought “Killed to Order,” and the momentum to combat forced organ harvesting that Jekielek has seen in recent book events.
“The time is now. We’re in this time now where people can accept this, and we can actually effect change,” Jekielek told The Epoch Times. “People are ready to accept it, and I think policymakers are ready to tackle it, because it’s not just … the Chinese people in the crosshairs, it’s ourselves. We’re complicit in this, and we have to stop at least that part. … There’s a will for that now.”
Multiple pieces of legislation to combat forced organ harvesting by ending U.S. funding for or sanctioning perpetrators have been introduced at both the federal and state levels, and grassroots efforts, such as the End Forced Organ Harvesting Rotary Satellite Club, are growing.
“It’s at every level,” he said. “It’s a very special time in history for this issue, and this book is a testament to this.
“It’s astonishing, it’s almost hard to believe, but it’s unbelievably welcome and kind of what we’ve been hoping for, those of us that work on this issue, that [we] finally could create societal momentum to end this horrific practice—‘an evil yet to be seen on this planet,’ as David Matas has called it,” Jekielek said, referring to the human rights lawyer who coauthored the 2006 report laying out 17 lines of evidence that the CCP was harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners at scale.
As multiple investigations and a 2019 China Tribunal found, practitioners of Falun Gong were the primary victims of the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting system.
