Prisoners Testimonies and Satellite photographs
By David Hawk
This is a human rights record documenting known escapees experiences in the gulag's of North Korea.
"In the fullest possible sense, the contemporary leaders of North Korea are the intellectual and moral descendants of these Stalinists. From the testimony presented so vividly in this volume, it is clear, first of all, that the North Korean camps were built according to a Stalinist model, and that they continue to be run this way." Pg 9
"Totalitarian regimes are built on lies and can be damaged, even destroyed, when those lies are exposed. The greater and more detailed evidence that can be provided, the more damage the truth can do." Pg. 9
From the preface by Anne Applebaum author of The Gulags
"Most of the information in this report comes from former prisoners, who during their interviews described in detail the situation of their imprisonment, their living and work units, and their treatment and observation while imprisoned or detained." Pg. 14
"Semi-starvation yields large numbers of informants among the prisoners, leading to a prison culture of distrust and hostility. Prisoners fight each other over scraps of food or over the clothing of deceased inmates. The camps feature the gamut of abnormal and aberrant human behavior that results from treating people like animals." Page 25
"According to Ji, the theory of the prison was that with their strength and spirit broken by hard labor, the prisoners would repent through self-criticism and change their mentality." Pg 48
"Deaths from mining accidents were a daily occurrence, including multiple deaths resulting from the partial collapse of mine shafts." Pg. 49
"Apart from the torture during interrogation, and the high levels of death in detention reported by the former detainees, repatriated pregnant North Koreans thrown in to the interrogation-detention system face ethnically-motivated infanticide and forced abortions, a particularly reprehensible phenomena of repression. . . " Pg. 59
You can read it for free at:
http://www.davidrhawk.com/HiddenGulag.pdf
Book 39
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