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Summary and Analysis of the North Korea Witness on the Crimes against Humanity in North Korea |
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Han Jin Dok was brought to Detention Settlement No. 22 when she was only seven years old. When I met her for the first time in the summer of 1991, she was a pretty 26-year-old girl who worked with plaster in the tunnels. She was different from the other prisoner..
[2005-12-02 13:56] |
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The political prisoners in the detention settlements are sent to punishment cells if they fail to meet daily work quotas, steal corn, or show a less-than-subservient attitude. They are only allowed to go outdoors and get sunlight once a week for 30 minutes. The pri..
[2005-12-01 15:34] |
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Many prisoners suffer from hepatitis, tuberculosis, leprosy and psychiatric diseases due to beatings, poor sanitary conditions, poor diet and degrading treatment. The sick prisoners are quarantined and squeezed into small huts in the mountain. For example, there ar..
[2005-11-29 17:13] |
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The prisoners’ sheds in the settlements are not equipped with toilets. The prisoners often have to wait for a long time before a toilet becomes available. Sometimes, they cannot wait and are forced to relieve themselves anywhere near the communal toilet in front of..
[2005-11-28 16:38] |
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Prisoners are always hungry and the food rations do not provide any protein. Therefore, they are desperate to catch and eat snakes, frogs, rats, or anything else within their reach. There is a certain species of rat with a dark line down the back. These rats are b..
[2005-11-25 16:21] |
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I was assigned guard to keep watch over the pigpens at Tunnel No. 6, Second Company, Settlement No. 22 from May to November 1991. While I was there, the pigs stopped growing. It took me three months to discover that the political prisoners working in the mines..
[2005-11-24 14:39] |
| In the autumn of 1989, there was a fire in Settlement No.13 at the guard unit warehouse. When we arrived at the site, the warehouse was already aflame. While the guards were trying to put out the fire with water buckets, security officers brought some 200 prisoner..
[2005-11-21 13:23] |
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A typical scene of political prisoners is doing hard labor. There are quarries at most settlements. Brutal beatings are common and prisoners often drop dead while working.Many political prisoners are recruited for the “grand construction” of special projects such..
[2005-11-18 16:22] |
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Political prisoners must always stop their work and bow deeply or kneel at the arrival of security officers or guards. Failure to do so would invite severe beatings and detention in the jail.The Kalmaegi brand is the best quality bicycle in North Korea and a popu..
[2005-11-17 15:45] |
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The political prisoners looked as if they were wearing rags with the patch-ups indistinguishable from the original clothes. Also, their hair was all curled up, not having been combed for a long time. They were so weak that they had to lean against the tools they we..
[2005-11-16 14:03] |
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