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Gulag for newborns in North Korea ("El Mundo", Spain)

Former prisoners of concentration camps talk about how the North Korean regime conducts executions of hundreds of babies, who are called "future enemies of the state"

David Jimenez, June 11, 2002

Conclusion Center in Khamkiong, North Korea. May 2000. "For several days after I ended up in prison, the children were born in seven women. Babies with an uncircumcised umbilical cord were wrapped in plastic bags and hung upside down right under the open air. They hung until they died. One of the newborns remained alive for three days. Then he was strangled."

One by one, the evidence similar to this memory of the former prisoner Kim Kyong-Ok (Kim Kyong -ok) tells about the systematic killing of newborns in the concentration camps of North Korea. The organization "Human Rights without Borders" (HRWF) united in its report evidence of 35 former prisoners and guards who fled from the "guile" of the last Stalinist regime in the world. At least, the testimony of 31 witnesses speaks of the executions of newborns.

Lee Gong-va (Lee Hong-Wa)-another of the prisoners who gave their testimony-talks about how in the prison of the Okhoning Okhsong women Arested forced to get rid of the children of their neighbors in the cell. "The 19 -year -old girl gave birth to a child. The guard ordered us to immediately kill him or prepare for punishment. The oldest of us was forced to cover the child with a blanket and strangle him. She could never recover after this nightmare," says a runaway woman who was able to find asylum in South Korea.

The storytellers give similar certificates of the methods of conducting executions of newborns, despite the fact that everyone was concluded in various areas of North Korea. All this indicates that such killings are part of state policy. In the HRWF report, various methods of conducting executions of newborns appear: babies were killed, piercing their heads with long needles; children were strangled with ropes; In some prisons, the guards crushed their feet or even gave it to a watchdog dog. "Most of these children were born of women who fled from their country and hidden in China. But there they were arrested and deported to their homeland. In North Korea, in accordance with Article 47 of the Criminal Code, they consider deserters. The same accusations are brought to children these women. And the mother and her child are considered to be enemies of the state," said El Mundo Nadya Milanova yesterday. - One of the authors of the report and a member of the organization "Human Rights without Borders".

According to humanitarian organizations, starting in 1972 in the concentration camps of North Korea from hunger and torture, more than 400,000 people were killed. The report of the organization "Human Rights without Borders" says that some prisons have wooden boxes where the bodies of newborns are placed before they are buried in common graves.

One of the former prison workers in Hamquion recalls that during work he counted 43 common graves in which newborns were buried. All graves were outside the territory of the prison, and this person claims that "the graves were forced to dig prisoners."

"Cleanliness" of the race

Over the past two years, more than 20,000 citizens of North Korea have been deported by China to their homeland, despite the fact that they had refugee status. Many of the Korean women live in cities in the northeast of China and are forced to engage in prostitution, and some of the deported are returned to their homeland while pregnant. In prisons of North Korea they are either forced to have abortion, or to become witnesses to the execution of their children. The guards justify the murders of children by the fact that newborns carry the blood of another people, and therefore desecrate the purity of the Korean race.

“After the birth of some babies, they were strangled, and sometimes left to lie on the floor, their mouths down, and the guards did not allow anyone to approach them until the children were dying. Mother cried quietly, seeing the agony of their children,” one of the testimonies said. “From the sight of such a number of dead babies, many women went crazy. Why should they do such terrible things?” Asks the Park Young-Nan Park, who has witnessed the death of at least four newborn.

The most closed state in the world

The certificates of the executions of newborn children in the Gulags of North Korea first gave two refugees in 1995 and 1997, who managed to leave the country. But then neither humanitarian organizations nor government of various countries believed in such accusations. The facts that people told about were such cruelty that the general opinion of representatives of the organizations was as follows: evidence could not be true.

This year, the EU, the United States and the UN began to recognize that coincidences in the testimonies of former prisoners are indicated that their stories are unlikely to be fiction. In April this year, EU representatives took into account the charges of children's executions during the Geneva meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission. The United States mentioned these evidence in its annual report on human rights.

Pyongyang claims that such testimonies are only “western fictions”, which deliberately pouring mud on North Korea. This state is considered the most closed and isolated in the world. The leader of the ruling regime - Kim Jong Il - is known for living, drowning in luxury, and at the same time, about two million of his compatriots have died over the past five years. The details of the policy of repression pursued by the government become known only thanks to the stories of refugees who managed to leave the country.

Humanitarian organizations are striving to use the world football championship currently in South Korea in order to attract the attention of the world community to the hopeless position of North Korean citizens.

Translation: inosmi.ru
Published on the website inosmi.ru: June 14, 2002

Country under the canopy of a nuclear cloud
The Sunday Times
The insanity of the North Korean regime, on racial purity, led to the killing of children with disabilities and violent abortions, which were subjected to women suspected that their children were conceived from the Chinese. This is evidenced by the growing number of stories of those who managed to escape from the country.
The latest certificates of Kim Chen Ir, the policy of the State Eugenics, received from the North Korean doctor Lee Kwan Zhola, who escaped from the country last year and told at the forum in Seoul that children with developmental malformations were killed shortly after birth.
“There are no people with physical flaws in North Korea,” Lee said. Such children are killed by medical staff, after which they are quickly buried, the doctor claims. He denies that he himself took part in such actions.
Refugees in Seoul say that he is acting carefully, fearing revenge on the part of the North Korean agents, who had previously killed those who were considered enemies more than once in the South Korean capital. But his story complements the existing evidence that the dictatorship of the Kim clan is more based on the mythical concepts of racial superiority of the Korean nation than on Marxism. This explains, in particular, why its alienation from China intensifies.
Throughout the 850-mile border, a resident of North Korea tells about the concern of the regime "incorrect" sexual contacts and its predisposition to solve this "problem" with the help of violence.
A 30-year-old woman who calls herself Khan Men Jok spoke about one such case. She made attempts to flee twice and has been safely in a third country for a year thanks to the American Christian organization Helping Hands Korea.
She says that smugglers sold her to the Chinese farmer in the area of ​​the Great Chinese wall; When she was in the fifth month of pregnancy, she was seized by the Chinese police and deported her back to North Korea.
There she was kept in one of the three female camps located in the cities of Sinyaju, Onson and Chongzhin. Her story was recorded by the founder of the American Christian organization Tim Peters.
“I refused to fulfill the order and to abort the fruit, which the prison authorities contemptuously called“ China ”, after which the guard greatly beat me, striking on the stomach. His name was a hwan man tone,” she said.
A week later, the khan says, she was taken to a prison hospital, where "they very rudely removed a dead child from my womb."
Khan managed to survive, having spent several years in a working camp, after which she was released, and she again escaped from the country. Its history is an important certificate regarding practice, which was first described in 2003 in the report of the human rights organization "American Committee on Human Rights in North Korea", drawn up by a specialist in human rights by David Hawk.
Hawk discovered "monstrous facts of repressions that exist only in North Korea," and came to the conclusion that the regime of this country is practicing "killing children on an ethnic basis." He collected the testimony of eight women who told the terrible stories about the murder of children. One of them occurred in a women's camp in Synyaju on the Yalujiang River, in the border zone, which is evident from the Chinese city of Dantun. The 28-year-old Choi En is enough how she was forced to accompany the woman at the last stages of pregnancy, which was returned to the country through the bridge from China, to the hospital where the doctors caused her artificial birth . When the child was born, according to Choi, she stood next to this woman and did not believe her own eyes, because the baby was strangled with a wet towel. Mother lost consciousness.
The 66-year-old grandmother also testified that she watched the death of babies in Synyaju, two of whom were healthy boys born on time. The first was born to a 28-year-old woman named Lim. The witness held the newborn in the blanket when the guard grabbed his leg and threw it into a large box, covered with plastic.
In total, seven newborns, five of which were born prematurely as a result of artificial stimulation of labor, were thrown to die in this box. Two days later, premature children died. Two full -term babies were still blinking, although their lips were already blue. According to the witness, the guard scored them to death with obstetric forceps.
In the center of the detention of Nonpo prisoners in Chonzhin, as witnesses say, the children of the "traitors" are thrown into a wicker basket closed with a plastic lid, and leave to die. One woman observed the death of seven children who were taken away from mothers and left to lie on the ground face down in front of their eyes.
Two days later, the guard finished off those who were still alive. "The guards said that mothers should see and hear how their children die because they gave birth to the Chinese," the report says.
The Korean Association of Lawyers says that 58% of the fugitives who were interviewed by lawyers in the association showed that they saw violent abortions in the DPRK prison system or heard about them.
The humanitarian organization "Doctors without borders" left North Korea in 1998 and, among the reasons for her departure, mentioned the refusal of the regime to provide her with access to the so-called 9-27 camps, which contains sick children and children with disabilities.
The apparent contradiction between the statement of the humanitarian organization and the recent statements Lee may be explained by the fact that time has passed between them. During this time, supporters of the tough line came to power, who threw almost all humanitarian organizations from the country, strengthening political control and deploying more cruel repressions, since the regime has entered the path of confrontation with the world community on the issue of nuclear weapons.
“It is vital to admit that the doctrine of Chuchhe, or self -sufficiency, is not an economic theory, but a cult, but Kim is worshiped as the head of this cult,” says the veteran of Western diplomacy, which has been in North Korea nine times. “Koreans sincerely believe that they are the highest race and that the peninsula will be united by the power of the Kim dynasty.”
Behind the screen of the Supreme People’s Assembly, its presidium, the ruling cabinet and the Korea labor party in the DPRK, there is a dictatorial regime of sole power, based on the clan principle, blood ties and deification of its leader. They say about Kim, although this is not true that he was born on the sacred slopes of Mount Pectu.
All this is used to justify the actions of state agents who, according to human rights activists, will sooner or later form the basis of charges of crimes against humanity.
The fugitives even talked about the experiments during which Kim’s chemical weapon was tested; One of them claimed that the prisoners were driven to the hill slide and poisoned with gas. Unlike children's murders, this story did not receive confirmation from other witnesses.
In a new study, conducted by three employees of the Seoul Korean Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, the experience of 30 refugees of those 7400 who found refuge in South Korea was recorded.
All of them were tortured, both physical and psychological, when they were in the hands of the Kim’s military special services. One of the centers where torture was carried out is again located in Syneju. More than half were injured only for finding Chinese currency; More than half admitted that they were subjected to sexual violence.
They reported that they were beaten, tortured with an electric current, plunged into the water and tortured a "dog booth" when the victim was forced to accept an unnatural and painful pose.
"The work clearly shows the need for the intervention of international organizations, such as the UN, in order to put an end to the return of the fugitives from China," the researchers say. China refused to allow the Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees in the border area.
The German doctor Norbert Follertsen, who helped fight hunger in North Korea in the 1990s and then became a fighter with the current regime, believes that the nuclear crisis gives a chance to end the Kim regime.
“Nobody cares about her,” Follertsen said last week. “They didn’t talk about North Korea in the news. Then the war in Iraq and the North Korea was called part of the“ H axis ”. Now we have received evidence that it really is it.”
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