Thousands of inmates convicted in cases involving “disloyalty to the regime” are not accounted for with the recent closing of the north korean labor camp in which they were imprisoned, hit the jump for more detail!
You would think some would realize when a couple of inmates begin to “disappear”, what is the story when thousands go missing???
The close of Camp 22 towards the end of last year left thousands of inmates missing without a trace, and many of their family members have feared them dead.
“The Aug. 27 report by Washington-based group Human Rights In North Korea, or HRNK, says that North Korea’s Camp 22, a vast gulag located near the Chinese border and reported to be larger than Los Angeles, was thought to have once held between 30,000 to 50,000 prisoners, most of whom were suspected of being disloyal to the regime or were related to people who had shown disloyalty”
Some of the inmates are thought to have been transferred to another camp near Chonjin City, Camp 25, or another, Camp 16, yet nothing is truly confirmed. The camp closed after speculations of malnutrition of inmates surrounded the institution after a shortage in food supplies took over the prison. The Human Rights Council In North Korea interviewed former prisoner’s within the camp “and security officials who escaped the communist nation and with experts and reporters who have informants inside North Korea”
“HRNK Co-chair Roberta Cohen said in a statement, “International arrangements should be negotiated for the entry of the International Committee of the Red Cross into the camps.”
Via HuffPost
