Scott Carney

Hundreds of thousands of people died around the world.

It was about 180,000 people who died, but many more people were displaced from their communities.

They all ended up in refugee camps.

In those refugee camps, you had these conditions of absolute destitution, people who had no access to really any income.

They used to be fishermen.

All their boats were killed, destroyed, and now they lived in these camps.

And what occurred is that because Chennai is a huge hub for the medical industry,

that organ brokers descended on them and they found contracts.

They said, hey, I'll give you $2,000 for your kidney.

And then isn't that great?

And they said, yeah, I love money.

And then they would sell their kidneys in agreeable transactions.

That were actually pretty unethical.

They were pretty horrible to people.

And then, you know, at one point I was there with National Geographic and we just lined up.

I think it was about 60 or 80 women in a line and we just ran the camera down the line.

the the line of them and everyone had these nephrectomy scars so these big surgical scars on their on their sides where they all had um had given their kidneys and the law of this this world is that you know if you have real horrible destitution next to world-class hospitals and and and malleable laws you you find organ trafficking so

No, I'm the world's leading organ trafficker.

Just kidding.

Yeah, I'm a journalist, man.