Former Beijing Policeman Reveals an Assembly Line System of Organ Harvesting
By Zeng Ni
The Epoch Times Jul 17, 2006

Interview with Sun Liyong. (The Epoch Times)A former Beijing policeman and
member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG)
revealed that there is an 'assembly line' system of organ harvesting in Beijing
and the Chinese Communist regime forcefully removes people's organs without
their consent. After a prisoner is sentenced to death in China, the actual date
of his death seems to depend on the needs of transplant operations.
The Assembly Line Begins on Marco Polo Bridge and Continues to Beijing
Friendship Hospital
The former policeman, Sun Liyong, said that he enrolled in the Beijing Police
Academy in 1979 and after gradation was assigned to the Dongcheng Police
Department in Beijing, where he worked until1987. There were 650 students who
graduated with him and they were assigned to various public security and legal
organizations in Beijing, including enforcement teams responsible for executing
prisoners. Classmates kept in touch with each other and exchanged information.
One of Sun Liyong's classmates worked in the organization responsible for
executing prisoners. That's how Sun Liyong was able to find out that, back then,
Beijing Friendship Hospital was the only hospital in Beijing that could obtain
organs from executed prisoners. The process was as follows: Beijing Police
Department would first confirm the date of a prisoner's execution and then
inform both Beijing Friendship Hospital and the courts. The hospital staff would
go to the detention centre to carry out blood tests before the prisoner was
executed in order to find compatible organs. The No 7 section of the Beijing
Police Department was responsible for this.
Vehicles from the police department, law courts and Friendship Hospital would
arrive at the scene of the execution. A red cross sign was hung on the
hospital's vehicle and the people inside couldn't leave. An operating table,
knives and scissors would all be ready in the vehicle.
The execution site for carrying out death sentences in Beijing is usually at the
Marco Polo Bridge. The prisoner would kneel in a hole dug in the ground and
would be shot through the head. Because his organs would be removed, he couldn't
be shot in the heart.
After the prisoner was shot, he would collapse forward into the dug out hole.
The coroner would check that he was dead and then place his body in a large
plastic bag, tie it up and dump it in the vehicle with the red cross sign.
Staff in the vehicle would immediately begin removing the organs as the vehicle
drove back to the hospital. At the same time, the organ recipient would be in
the hospital, anaesthetized, and ready for the transplant operation.
Sun Liyong said that, as far as he knew, people who have been sentenced to death
have their organs taken regardless of whether they consented or not. There is no
choice when the Chinese Communist regime is involved ?to them, harvesting
people's organs is perfectly justified.
The Chinese Communist Regime Is Really Brutal! Our Child Was Missing All his
Organs!
Sun Liyong said that after 1989 he was charged with "instigating and promoting
anti-revolutionary sentiments" and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for
publishing an underground publication. From 1991 to 1998, he was held in several
prisons, including Beijing Qincheng Prison, First Prison and Second Prison.
In 1996, a friend and fellow prisoner named Ma was executed. Later, Ma's parents
told Sun Liyong during a visit: "When we went to collect [Ma's] body from the
hospital, we thought it looked very shriveled. His whole stomach had shrunk, so
we pulled open his clothes to take a look and saw an incision from his throat to
his stomach. The incision was badly sewn. The Communist regime is really brutal.
Our child was missing all his organs!"
Timing of the Execution Depends on the Needs of Transplant Operations
Sun Liyong also said that while he was detained at the No 7 section of the
Beijing Police Department, he made friends with someone who was once imprisoned
with convicts who had been sentenced to death for more than six months.
This friend told Sun Liyong that the death-row prisoners had at least one full
body examination and blood testing. Some of them even had their blood tested
several times. Some of them were executed very soon after being sentenced to
death, while others had to wait for several months.
Sun Liyong said that from his eight years experience of being a policeman and
his understanding of the nature of the Chinese Communist regime, he concluded
that some death-row prisoners were not executed immediately because the regime
wanted to wait for a compatible organ recipient before executing them.
Why Didn't You Say that your Son Was Missing?
The Chinese official website Xinhua.net published a denial of the allegations
made by former Canadian Member of Parliament David Kilgour and human rights
lawyer David Matas in their July 6 investigative report on organ harvesting of
Falun Gong practitioners. The report explained that in the six years of
persecution of Falun Gong, there are more than 40,000 cases of transplant
operations in which the source of the organs cannot be explained. Yet this
apparent mystery is explained by the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong
practitioners. However, the denial article on Xinhua net claimed that it is
impossible for 40,000 people to disappear in China without the outside world
knowing about it.
In response to this claim, Sun Liyong said that it is totally possible for
40,000 people to disappear in China without the outside world knowing. For
example, he once found out about a victim of the June 4 Tiananmen Square
massacre named Lin. Lin went to Tiananmen Square on June 3, 1989 and someone saw
him helping the injured victims. He disappeared after that and his body was
never found. His parents didn't tell anyone that their son was missing.
When Sun found the parents of this victim, he asked them: "Why didn't you tell
anyone that your son went missing?"
They replied: "We are old revolutionaries. We have been involved in revolutions
our whole life. Now the Chinese Communist Party gives us a pension. If we tell
anyone our son is missing, how will we survive?"
Sun Liyong said that even now the family is still afraid to talk about this
matter. Even though they hate the Chinese Communist Party, they cannot do
anything. Besides, their son is already dead, and they would rather tolerate the
injustice and lead a peaceful life.
Short Biography of Sun Liyong
Sun Liyong was born in June 1961, enrolled into the Beijing Police Academy in
1979 and subsequently worked in the Beijing Dongcheng Police Department. He left
the public security service in 1987 and became a manager in the Beijing North
Star Company security department. He witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre on
June 3, 1989 and took photos of many of the victims. In one area, he saw 57
corpses. In 1990, he started an underground democratic movement publication
called Democratic China . In 1991, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment
for "instigating and propagating anti revolution". He was released in April 1998
at the end of his sentence. In 2004, he escaped to Australia and applied for
political asylum. He is currently convener of the "Support network for political
and religious dissidents in China" and author of Walking Through the Ice
Mountain (not yet published) which is a record of his seven years in prison.
Sun Liyong works as a home removalist in Australia. Although he is struggling
financially, he continues to send money back to China to help political
dissidents.