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Posted on 05/04/2011 7:35:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
New images of North’s prison camps
Satellite images and new testimony released by Amnesty International yesterday show that political prison camps in North Korea hold an estimated 200,000 people, a considerable increase compared to a decade ago.
North Korean political prison camps have been notorious for torturing and starving prisoners, which often leads to death. The new imagery shows the location and size of the camps, demonstrating a “significant increase” compared to satellite images of the camps from 2001.
“As North Korea seems to be moving towards a new leader in Kim Jong-un and a period of political instability, the big worry is that the prison camps appear to be growing in size,” said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International Asia Pacific director. “These are places out of sight of the rest of the world, where almost the entire range of human rights protections that international law has tried to set up for the last 60 years are ignored.”
(Excerpt) Read more at joongangdaily.joins.com ...
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That is one twisted country.
I strongly recommend the book “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick for a very readable eye opener on the suffering of these people. Total mind control and starvation — poverty in America is absolute wealth compared to the North Koreans. Most of them don’t even know there is anything better.
Great catch. Your posts have had a special glow recently....
Remember, I had no radiation problem from my two visits to Chernobyl during coverage for the network..... but I could read without a nightlight for a few weeks....
“The Aquariums of Pyomyang” —an unlikely title, but amazing, first-hand account by a whole family that was scooped up and sent off for 10 years at hard labor in a DPRK prison camp.
WOW..!
Easy read. Heart-breaking.
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