Thursday, April 28, 2005

NORTH KOREA GASSES ITS OWN

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

CBC News reports that North Korea gasses its citizens.

A 55-year old chemist said that he was overseeing experiments on human beings, trying to find out how efficiently a deadly nerve gas would kill off political prisoners.

"’He said he was involved in the killing of two people – one who did not expire for 2½ hours, and the second didn't die till 3½ hours had passed.’"

So it goes in North Korean, according to a human rights organization monitoring such atrocities global. The organization is known for its precise studies of criminal acts, dating back to the Nazi war criminals.

Now it is focusing in on North Korean mistreatment of its own people. There are indications that such, including gassing humans, may be going on present-tense.

"The Simon Wiesenthal Center sent American rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center’s associate dean, to Asia to investigate the reports, which the North Korean regime denies."

Interviews reveal detail of the torture and gross mistreatment such as "’mass starvations, gruesome experimentations, and yes, as we now are beginning to learn and to confirm, gas chambers.’

"Soon Ok Lee, a North Korean now living in the United States, said she spent years in a political prison camp before escaping.

"’When I was in jail, there was at least once or twice in the prison camp, chemical testing on humans that I witnessed.’"

The human rights agency not only does research and report, but also confronts governments committing the atrocities. The intent is to bring those political regimes to world attention, pronouncing them "guilty of crimes against humanity."

A spokesman for the Center informed media that they have concluded that North Korea’s dictatorial government has "learned from Hitler, from Stalin.

"During the Second World War, Hitler's regime killed an estimated six million Jews, many of them in gas chambers. More than 10 million are estimated to have died as a result of Stalin's collectivization policies and political purges in the 1930s."

Human rights defenders are now gathering to schedule demonstrations in a "’number of cities to draw attention to alleged rights violations in North Korea,’ Cooper stated. ’We are here today to put the N back into Never again.'"

The effort is labeled "North Korean Freedom Day."

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