The human rights organization Korea Future reported that people whom Kim Jong-un saw as a threat were thrown into prisons. Some North Korean citizens had to eat insects to avoid starvation in detention.
Former prisoners who managed to escape from a totalitarian country in North Korea talked about the conditions in prisons. According to them, extrajudicial killings, rape, forced abortion and torture took place there. Almost no food was given to them, so some prisoners had to eat insects. These statements of people formed the basis of a new report by the human rights organization Korea Future, the American television channel CNN reported on March 24.
Human rights activists interviewed hundreds of survivors of the crimes who managed to flee the country. They also took official documents and satellite images.
“Compared to the Soviet gulag, the (North Korea) prison system is not designed to hold and rehabilitate persons convicted by a court in safe and humane institutions… “The power of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Eun,” the organization said in a statement.
Korea Future was able to find 206 places of detention in every province of North Korea. According to their information, violations are committed by high-ranking officials themselves, up to major generals.
In the report, the organization highlights the crimes committed by North Korean intelligence agencies against its residents. For example, three people who tried to cross the border were imprisoned. One of them was a forced abortion in the seventh or eighth month of a woman’s pregnancy. And another man was given just 80 grams of corn a day, and his weight dropped from 60 to 37 kilograms in a month. He had to eat cockroaches and rodents to supplement his diet.
Other survivors told CNN that they ate animal feed and became very weak. They witnessed rapes and severe beatings.
In addition, the UN came to the same conclusion as human rights activists in its investigation. The report of the human rights organization says, for example, that women held in political prison camps have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, forced labor and sexual abuse by North Korean authorities.
Recall, on March 4, CNN reported that North Korea is facing mass starvation. Experts believe the DPRK has reached its worst point since the 1990s, when famine combined with the economic crisis killed hundreds of thousands of people.
On March 2, journalists wrote that Kim Jong-un is building a luxury restaurant in Pyongyang that will serve dog meat dishes. It is being built in an exclusive area of the capital of North Korea on the banks of the Taedong River.
Source: Focus
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