Monday, February 17, 2014

Investigation By UN Reveals Torture, Rape And Murder Inside North Korea's Labour Camps



A Glimpse Of Hell: Traumatised Survivors Relive Public Executions, Rape And Forced Abortions Inside North Korea's Prison Camps -- Daily Mail

* Video by Amnesty International on conditions in Nth Korean prisons
* Forced to do hard labour from dawn until night while dying of starvation
* One woman jailed for nine years 'gossiping' about Kim Jong Il 'affair'
* Former prison guard tells of how guards would rape then kill prisoners
* Inquiry chair says North Korean 'atrocities' are comparable to Nazi abuses

Telling of public executions, hard labour and starvation, four survivors of North Korean prison camps have shared their shocking stories of life in the country’s gulags.

Kim Young Soon spent nine years in Yodok prison camp along with her elderly parents and four young children, for gossiping about an affair her friend had with Kim Jong Il.

‘It is a place that would make your hair stand on end,’ she said in a video released by Amnesty International today.

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Update #1: U.N. commission of inquiry likely to condemn North Korea on human rights -- CNN
Update #2: Report tells of rights violations in N Korea -- Al Jazeera

My Comment: A vivid description on the hell that these prisoners are experiencing.

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