North Korea's Sub Humans

[Curiosity]

On another topic we were discussing a future of two human groups - but it seems North Korea has begun such a separation already

U.N.: North Korea puts disabled in 'subhuman' camps


Friday, October 20, 2006
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS -- The North Korean government rounds up disabled people and sends them away from the capital Pyongyang to special camps, where they are sorted by their handicap and subjected to "subhuman conditions," a U.N. report released Thursday said.
Author Viti Muntarbhorn, special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, cited reports from defectors who said the mentally disabled are sent to camps known as "Ward 49." Other camps exist for dwarfs, who may marry but are barred from having children.
"To date, the situation facing those with disabilities has presented a very disconcerting picture," Muntarbhorn wrote in the report detailing what he said were rampant human rights abuses in North Korea.
Those violations include torture, refusal to give food aid to citizens and harsh punishment of those trying to flee the country, the report said.
Muntarbhorn has repeatedly written to the North Korean government about numerous concerns and has asked to be allowed into the country. The government has typically responded that it does not recognize his mandate and will not communicate with him or allow him to visit.

As a result, much of the evidence he relied on for his conclusions was drawn from reports compiled by other sources. The finding that North Korea was putting away the disabled was published by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a South Korean government think tank, in a 2005 report that got little international attention.

Citing that report, Muntarbhorn said the disabled are sent to camps and sorted according to their physical deformity or handicap.
"North Korean authorities are practicing merciless discrimination against handicapped persons," the institute's report said.
Muntarbhorn's report detailed other rights violations against women, the elderly and children. It said that women who get pregnant with non-Koreans when they flee the country are subject to discrimination or violence if they are brought back "with dire impact on the babies or children of the relationship."
Family members of people who are seen as opponents of the North Korean government are often punished along with their relatives and it is illegal to listen to foreign radio broadcasts or own a computer without permission, Muntarbhorn said in the report.
Muntarbhorn, a Thai specialist in human rights law, made some of the same points in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council last month.
He said then he had seen "reports of a wide range of detention centers and prisons with appalling conditions and use of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, despite a ban on such practices under the country's law," Muntarbhorn said.

 

[Curiosity]

More on this Best Kept Secret of the United Nations

On Vietnam:

In early September Vietnam released prominent dissident and pro-democracy activist Pham Hong Son. Son was originally sentenced to five years in prison. His crime? He translated articles from the U.S. State Department web site for an online journal in Vietnam. The articles were titled “What is democracy?”

Mr. Cong Do, an American citizen, was also falsely imprisoned by earlier this year Vietnam. He has now been released and is advocating the return from Vietnam of another U.S. Citizen: Thuong Nguyen "Cuc" Foshee.

Mrs. Foshee, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody Sept. 8, 2005. She was not charged, not allowed to post bail, denied an attorney and put in a prison in Ho Chi Minh City. Her crime? While in the U.S. she did business with an organization the government of Vietnam terms “seditionist.”

The Vietnamese people have no free elections. In Vietnam, the Communists Party chooses all candidates prior to an election and no people excluded by the Communists system can run in an election. Since all candidates are nominated by the Party, there is no legitimate “voice of the people.”

The Communist government of Vietnam, like that of China and North Korea, controls and monitors all media including the internet and email. Along with the U.S. Department of State web site, the web site of The Washington Times is not available to readers in Vietnam. The Washington Times is also too “seditionist.”

Although Vietnam currently has more than 600 newspapers; all are owned and controlled by the Party. No private newspaper has ever been allowed to be published. Song lyrics are monitored and have to be approved by the government in Vietnam.

Vietnam has one of the strictest systems of control over public use of the Internet in the world. Many web sites with information on freedom and democracy are not available in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese people do not have freedom of religion and worship. In its annual report on religious freedom, the U.S. State Department listed Vietnam among its top eight “Countries of Particular Concern.”

http://peace-and-freedom.blogspot.com/

This is what the UN tiptoes around. This is their version of half-korean children born to incarcerated mothers facing a "harrowing situation". These are the people Clinton Richardson and Albright sat down to dinner with and criticize George Bush for calling "evil". This was the leadership our US Secretary of State Albright joked with and toasted in the eyes of the world. Imagine if Roosevelt's Sec of State had sat down to dinner with and raised glasses in toast to the Nazis. When the gulags are broken open someday, these shameless diplomats will still have no shame for their complicity.

http://www.hrnk.org/TheHiddenGulag-press.pdf

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/october/28.39.html

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/right/north-korean-gulag.html

 

[ottawabill]

the
' GREAT LEADER" should be the first one through the door

 

[Sassylassie]

The leader of North Korea is an "Animal" a vile filthy pig. I hope someday he's roasted alive for his object cruelty. It must be hell to live under his regime.

 

[ottawabill]

http://www.korea-dpr.com/

oh no have a look..The North Korean site says its a wonderful place..Would even be better if it were not for those damn Americans....I can't believe the crap they spill out on there site!!

 

[DurkaDurka]

The "Great Leader" is totally crazy. I think he is setting a new bar for how a dictator should act.

I love the mythology they have created about him, especially his birth.

quoted from here: http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/north_korea_myths/

"Here's the myth concocted by the Kim dynasty's propaganda machine: Kim Il Sung and his wife were bravely leading the heroic struggle against the Japanese from mountain hideouts on the border between Korea and Manchuria when Kim Jong Il was born. At his birth--on Mount Paekdu, Korea's highest and most sacred peak--a double rainbow arched over the family's log cabin, a new star appeared in the sky and a swallow flew overhead to announce that a great general had come into the world. When Kim Jong Il was three and a half, his father personally fought and defeated the Japanese, marched into Pyongyang and liberated Korea."

 

[ottawabill]

oooohhh I never knew that..must now bow to the great leader....Great moron....He reminds me of that kid in school how would tell on anyone for brownie points from the teacher, then ran away when he found himself in the playground alone for fear that they would "get him"