Posted on 28 July 2016.
North Korean border patrol guards have accused South Korea of deliberately releasing snakes of snakes in Ryanggang Province. Soldiers have been ordered to capture the snakes before they reach land and hatch eggs.
North Korea, who is accusing South Korea of creating a problem for its people and army, has itself been popular for violating human rights. Prisoners of this country are kept under horrific conditions and are tortured in the cruelest way.
According to reports, once someone is convicted of a crime, his or her entire family could be punished for three generations for simply being biologically related. They can be held captive in the camps solely based on their familial ties.
A prisoner who managed to escape told UN commission in 2014 the ordeals people living in labour camps have to face. They include extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence.
According to a UN report, there are probably 200,000 people being held in these camps and in the past five decades several political prisoners have been executed.
Prisoners are made to work for 16 hours every day with just a handful of corn to live on. They are put to work in fields, sent to forests to log wood, put to work in mines where safety measures are non-existent, or sent to factories where being injured is basically expected.
Shin Dong-hyuk, who is only known the prisoner to have successfully escaped from ‘Camp 14’ after spending 23 years, that prisoners ate rats and insects to survive.
Shockingly, prisoners had to take permissions from guards to even eat rats and if someone failed to take permission, he would be beaten mercilessly.
According to reports, higher ranking guards could sexually abuse female inmates providing they do not become pregnant. It claimed women who did become pregnant would usually be sent to harsh mining work or secretly executed
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