N. Korea’s brutal prison camps where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering and dying are home to most of the world’s worst human rights abuses.
North Korea’s brutal prison camps, where hundreds of thousands of people are languishing away in horrid conditions, are home to most of the world’s worst human rights abuses, a report released Tuesday revealed.
The Kim family has created a network of prison camps that have no parallel in the modern world. Thomas Buergenthal, an Auschwitz survivor and a judge who helped prepare the new report on the tragedies of North Korea’s prisons told the Washington Post North Korea’s camps are “as terrible, or even worse, than those I saw and experienced in my youth in the Nazi camps.”
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and other state officials should be held responsible for ten of the eleven crimes against humanity outlined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, specifically murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearances, and the inhumane act of forced starvation, the International Bar Association (IBA) War Crimes Committee asserted in a new report, the result of a two-year investigation into North Korea’s rampant human rights violations.
The IBA put together a detailed report on the horrors of the North’s prison camps, where the murderous regime sends those individuals deemed undesirable by the state.
“The inmates are supposed to die,” former North Korean prison guard Ahn Myong-chol revealed. The North’s prisons are designed to eliminate the “seed” of three generations of anti-state criminals.
The hardships of forced labor combined with starvation and nonexistent medical care are intended to result in death, and when those fail, the prison guards take matters into their own hands. Prisoners are executed for stealing food, attempting to escape, and to set an example for other inmates.
Children are not exempt, and at one camp, around 2,000 prisoners — mostly children — died from malnutrition.
