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Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you know of other instances of experimentees being killed?

Answer: Two Russians and one Chinese were shot dead by gendarmes on the same place.

Question: That is, those people were shot dead right on the cattle cemetery?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why were they killed by the gendarmes?

Answer: I think for purposes of secrecy.

Question: So it would be correct to say that all persons brought to Detachment 100 for
experimental purposes, were doomed to die?

Answer: That is so.

State Prosecutor: I have no further questions to accused Mitomo.

Counsel Prokopenko: Accused Mitomo, what impelled you to volunteer for service in the
detachment?

Accused Mitomo: I wanted to see Manchuria. Just then several of my friends were
planning to join Detachment 100, and I left together with them.

Question: You have just told the Prosecutor in answer to his question that you
experimented on human beings. What was your purpose in doing so, why did you do it? Did
you personally benefit by this?

Answer: I, personally, did not in any way benefit by this.

Question: How do you look upon your actions now?

Answer: I repent having taken part in these inhuman experiments on living people, in
bacteriological sabotage and in the preparations for bacteriological warfare against the Soviet
Union.

EXAMINATION OF ACCUSED TAKAHASH1

State Prosecutor: Tell us, accused Takahashi, from when and till when did you serve in the
Kwantung Army and in what capacity.

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