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 =96 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.