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The report was produced by the Human Rights Committee of North Korea (HRNK), which interviewed several of the camp’s former prisoners.
Many of those who ended up in the Chongori camp in North Korea had done nothing wrong other than having a Bible, watching South Korean TV shows, or managing a newspaper page with a photo of Kim Jong-Un, his father or grandfather. a “disrespectful” way. .
Mortality in the camp, which the Kim Jong-Un regime calls “training camps,” was high, according to the stories of former prisoners in the report.
– Every Monday we burn the corpses, says a former prisoner.
“When I looked closer, I saw that it was a toe.”
After the bodies were cremated, the ashes were used as compost material by a river.
– When it rained, ash poured into the river and the prisoners were forced to drink the water from the river and shower in it, says a former prisoner.
Carcasses were often stored for so long before being cremated that they began to rot and were eaten by rats. When it rained, it was also more difficult to burn the corpses. A prisoner recounts how he once stumbled and fell:
– At first I thought I had landed on the root of a tree, but when I looked closer I saw that it was a toe. When I climbed the mountain with ash, I had five toes in front of me, says the former prisoner according to the newspaper.
“People suffer more than we can imagine”
About 5,000 people are in the Chongori camp.
– We know that people suffer beyond what we can imagine. Atrocities committed through North Korea’s huge illegal detention system require immediate action from the outside world, says the report’s lead author, Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr.
An estimated 120,000 people are in concentration camps in North Korea.
“The lack of human dignity for prisoners is beyond disgusting and the Kim regime must be held accountable for its actions,” said Amanda Mortwedt Oh, co-author of the report.
The Kim Jong-Un regime has denied any abuse of human rights in the detention camps.
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