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| N. Korea's Worst Concentration Camp Exposed | |
| 2011-09-24 | |
| North Korea's worst concentration camp is a reeducation center where women who escaped to China are subjected to the most brutal treatment, NGO Good Friends said Monday. The Jeungsan Reeducation Center in South Pyongan Province has a reputation for cruelty and the saying goes that even healthy people leave as cripples. The facility was turned into a reeducation center after the regime revised the criminal law in 2004. Before the law was revised, North Korea had four kinds of detention centers -- reeducation, education, confinement and labor training camps in descending order of severity. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il himself is said to have turned the center into a kind of "Papillon" prison island, giving instructions that every prisoner's year there should feel like 10.
Hundreds of female inmates reportedly suffer malnutrition there, and two or three die every day. Their bodies are wrapped in plastic and buried in mass graves. One former inmate who was detained there in 2004 said that other inmates who saw mass graves with piles of human bones and bodies came away with permanent psychological scars. A former official of the Ministry of Public Security who defected said, "The Jeungsan Reeducation Center is notorious because many more inmates die there than at any other concentration camp due to the unbearably hard labor and malnutrition." Jeungsan consists of 10 divisions, each of which is made up of seven to 10 groups. Each group normally has 40 to 50 inmates. A relatively healthy inmate is chosen as a capo who controls other inmates under the supervision of security guards. Those caught attempting to escape or committing infractions there are not publicly executed as at other political prison camps but are tortured or killed out of sight. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 New NorK regime; negotiations are coming up. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-24 21:46 |
| #6 I wonder what's going on. This is about the third article I've read about North Korea's concentration camps in the past three days. Anyone have any idea why this is percolating to the top these days? It's been going on for 60 years. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-09-24 20:52 |
| #5 It's the democrats utopia. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-09-24 13:12 |
| #4 But... but... but.... Are the rooms kept a little warm like at GITMO? Lets keep things in perspective - GITMO is obviously far worse! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-09-24 12:42 |
| #3 To put it in perspective: North Korea has 200,000 political prisoners |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-09-24 11:41 |
| #2 Kim Harkonen Il. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-09-24 09:06 |
| #1 Nice news. Thought the Helsinki accord allowed for sanctioned intervention. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-24 01:31 |