Source: ASSIST News, October 13, 2013
Some 20,000 prisoners of conscience [have disappeared] from North Korea’s Camp 22, a massive concentration camp.
According to a story by Robert Park published in Forbes and the Chicago Tribune, the camp was geographically larger than Los Angeles and thought to have once held between 30,000 to 50,000 prisoners.
Satellite photographs indicate that guard posts, interrogation and detention facilities at the camp had been razed last year. By that time, those accused and exploited had been reduced to about 3,000.
While an estimated seven to eight thousand prisoners are believed by some observers to have been taken away at night via train, the rest remain unaccounted for.
On the basis of testimony from former camp guards Ahn Myong-chol and Kwon Hyuk, worldwide attention has been focused on the horrors which took place daily at Camp 22 – a literal killing field.
In an August report, David Hawk of the Washington D.C.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) commented on Camp 22’s rapid depopulation, “If even remotely accurate, this is an atrocity requiring much closer investigation.”
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