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Question: Where did you dig the pit?

Answer: In the cattle cemetery, at the back of the detachment's premises.

Question: In the same place where the carcases of cattle were buried?

Answer: The place is the same, only the pit different. (There is movement in the
courtroom, a low murmur of indignation.)

Question: Tell us in what way you put this person to death, how you committed the
murder.

Answer: In order to make the potassium cyanide injection the experimentee was first
brought down with diarrhea on Matsui's orders. This served as a pretext to make the
potassium cyanide injection.

Question: In other words, you deceived that person? You told him that you were going to
give him an injection as a medical treatment, but actually gave him an injection of potassium
cyanide, is that right?

Answer: That is correct.

Question: Was he the only person you killed, or have you killed others, too?

Answer: There was the Chinese experimentee who, after eating the porridge I had mixed
with poison, wandered about distraught for several hours and then died.

Question: What poison was the porridge mixed with?

Answer: One gram of-heroin.

Question: Did you know that you were mixing the porridge with a fatal dose of poison?

Answer: I did.

Question: So you committed this murder fully aware of what you were doing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Where was the body of the person you killed buried?

Answer: In the same place where the Russian was buried.

Question: That is, in the cattle cemetery?

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